It’s crazy. I don’t know how I’m not dead. People think I’m going to get punched in the face: “Something terrible is going to happen to you.
BILLY EICHNERI would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.
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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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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.
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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 have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York.
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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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.
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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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I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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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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.
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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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I’d be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.
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A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone’s scared to take a chance.
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