Difficult People

Difficult People

It's not them. It's you.

Created by Julie Klausner

On Hulu

2015–20173 seasons28 episodes24 min6.3 / 10

A caustic, character-driven comedy about two struggling comics whose bitterness and dysfunction are the joke, not the problem to be solved.

Life is really tough for Julie Kessler and Billy Epstein, two thirty-something aspiring comics living and working in New York City. While their friends and acquaintances move on to find success and love, they continue to struggle with careers and relationships, getting more bitter by the day.

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