I honestly do not recall exactly what tweet it was because there were so many tweets to make you angry, but in that moment [ in the summer of 2017 ], I called Mike Farah, the CEO of Funny or Die. I said,' I think we should join forces and do something related to upcoming midterm elections, because all the tweeting and marching is great and nothing really means as much as voting, in terms of trying to get the country back on track.'.

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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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college new-york struggle

I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. 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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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.

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My father and I were really like a team. I mean, he was very supportive. He'd come to every single one of my live shows.

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For some reasons, I have WWE wrestlers tweeting me all the time. Like, my biggest fans. Why they can connect with my love for Meryl Streep, I don't know.

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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. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.

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hollywood careers people

If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to get in there and ignore the people who say no.

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answers people thinking

The camera guys can't mess up. God bless them, they hardly ever do. But they literally don't know what's going to happen next. None of us do. And it all has to come together and be funny.

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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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men people years

A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving. 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 would not have a career without Facebook and Twitter. That's the truth.

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careers

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

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people years thinking

I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.

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I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it's the most important thing in the world, and as if it's something that everyone should weigh on because it's important to me.

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Facebook is weird. They have all of these seemingly random rules that I'm sure make sense to them, but don't make sense to me or any people.

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Difficult People? I don't really know. I don't have those metrics.

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Hotmail just picked up 12 new episodes of 'Judging Amy'.

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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

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I'm not much of a dancer.

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dancer

I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.

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