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. Billy Eichner More Quotes by Billy Eichner More Quotes From Billy Eichner I couldn't just get up every day and be miserable and complain. Billy Eichner get-up miserable complaining By TV standards - I'm not comparing it to manual labor by any means - by TV comedy standards, it is the hardest job I will ever, ever have. There is nothing that could be harder. I mean, when you combine the amount of writing that has to be done - sharp writing - with the fact that you then take it to the street and improvise with both celebrities who have no idea what's going to happen and real people who are not actors or comedians who don't even know I'm about to talk to them... It's lightning in a bottle every time. Billy Eichner real writing jobs 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. 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 crazy people thinking The most outrageous thing happened years ago in my YouTube days, when I asked an older lady - it was like a sexually flavored question and she just slapped me full-on across the face. That's the one time someone got physically aggressive with me. And it hurt. Billy Eichner hurt faces years It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me as a kid. I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win. Billy Eichner awards winning kids 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. Billy Eichner oscars months kids I have a very vivid memory. Billy Eichner vivid-memories vivid memories I have a medical condition, all right. It's called caring too much, and it's incurable. Also, I have eczema. Billy Eichner eczema too-much caring I've been shouting about silly things -- actors, Oscars, thing I've always cared about, but I want to use my voice to shout at people about more significant things. Billy Eichner politics Get ready for the hottest event of the year, no, it's not the Grammys, the Oscars, or the Golden Globes. It's the 2018 midterm elections. Billy Eichner politics I wanted to take something that feels like or sounds like a chore or a test you take in school -- The Midterms -- and turn it into people and make it something hot, the sexiest event of the year, that's a joke, obviously -- but that's our way with having fun of what can be traditionally a very dry, chore-like process. Billy Eichner politics 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.'. Billy Eichner politics I always turn to Wendy Williams when there's any type of ethical or moral crisis in our country. Billy Eichner always crisis moral country I'm smart enough to know I shouldn't be behind the wheel. Billy Eichner behind know smart enough We have to remain vigilant and loud and stay consistently engaged with our representatives and the political process every single day, on both a macro and micro level. Billy Eichner stay day single political Usually, you'll have a show like the 'King of Queens,' and there'll be one really fat guy, but at least he has a beautiful wife - they balance it out. Billy Eichner king you wife beautiful Our new vice president, Mike Pence, is one of the most blatantly anti-LGBT politicians in the country, and most, if not all, of Trump's cabinet is anti LGBT equality as well. Billy Eichner politicians new equality country I do take for granted, probably, the fact that I grew up in New York City, one of the most liberal places on earth, with bleeding-heart, liberal parents who took me to see 'Rent' and Terrence McNally plays from a very young age. Billy Eichner city parents me age Everyone's life experience is different. Billy Eichner everyone experience different life If I'm screaming at someone, it's because I think they're an idiot. Billy Eichner i-think someone think idiot
