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It 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.

Billy Eichner

There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
BILLY EICHNER

Men People Years
I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
BILLY EICHNER

Difficult Lighter Richer Show Think
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Crazy Fun Nice
I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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Media People Thinking
I have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
BILLY EICHNER

Caring Eczema Much Too
Ironically, my rabbi was a bar mitzvah Nazi. So I got bar mitzvahed. And though I didn’t want to, the theme of my bar mitzvah party was Madonna.
BILLY EICHNER

Party Want
I am invisible in gay bars.
BILLY EICHNER

Bars Gay Invisible
I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.
BILLY EICHNER

Award Lists Make Shows Win
We weren’t, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.
BILLY EICHNER

Entertainment Parents People Rich Supported
Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn’t finding my way in.
BILLY EICHNER

Jobs Struggle Successful
I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
BILLY EICHNER

Argument People Physically Really
You’re going to get killed.” That’s not what’s going to kill me. The show is going to kill me. The work is going to kill me. Once I’m on the street, I’m not worried about that.
BILLY EICHNER

Going Kill Killed Once Street
A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
BILLY EICHNER

Character Rocks Thinking
It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
BILLY EICHNER

Award Kids Winning
We’re really fleshing out the whole world of the show [Difficult People]. It’s more of an ensemble now, whereas last season we were very focused on establishing the Billy/Julie friendship.
BILLY EICHNER

Ensemble Focus Friendship People Season World
Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
BILLY EICHNER

Actors Outgoing Sound

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