I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn’t get a paying job.
BILLY EICHNERIt was one of Hulu’s first original shows to really go out there. Now a year has passed, and the second season is getting a great response.
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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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I have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
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When I opened my mouth to sing as a kid, I kind of randomly had a really good singing voice. And so that put me on the actor track and the musicals track.
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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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We weren’t, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.
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Sometimes you go up to people who look totally normal and then you talk to them for a few seconds and you are like, Oh I better get out of this, because this person is a little mentally unbalanced, and they are not going to get a joke.
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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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I’m not much of a dancer.
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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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I am invisible in gay bars.
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I knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.
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I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.
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I like talking to a person who is crazy in a fun, eccentric way. I don’t want to talk to a legitimate crazy person, because that’s not nice.
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