Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn’t finding my way in.
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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I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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I think it’s for people who obviously care about pop culture or know about it, even if it’s to a fault. I think it’s for outsiders.
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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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I 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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I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn’t get a paying job.
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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 can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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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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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I am invisible in gay bars.
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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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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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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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I spend the majority of my time in New York and LA. I feel like a large part of my following and my fans are probably in New York and LA because of the work that I do is very New York-LA-centric. So people do recognize me. But it’s nothing overwhelming at all.
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