I feel more like I’m doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.
BO BURNHAMI believe, firmly, that women are always right. Ah, I should actually rephrase that: I… don’t.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there’s a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.
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We’re having a traditional Thanksgiving – turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc.
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My persona is most importantly just to communicate the material in a way that is most funny and meaningful in the moment. It’s more like a character that’s sculpted for whatever joke needs communicating at the moment.
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I believe, firmly, that women are always right. Ah, I should actually rephrase that: I… don’t.
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Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop’s another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you’re talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It’s like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.
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I don’t like calling myself a “feminist” only because I don’t think I’ve done anything active enough to call myself one. It’d be like calling myself a civil rights activist just because I’m not racist.
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For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.
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My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that’s a lovely addition.
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I know it’s the comedian’s instinct to say, “Do it, man, nothing’s off-limits! It’s cool, bro!” I don’t know if that’s the answer for me.
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I just try to do things on stage that I think the audience would enjoy. And I try to draw on and add to acts that I’ve enjoyed watching.
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I actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost… my virginity.
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How old is too old to stop believing in, like, the tooth fairy? Like 12? I’ve got a cousin who is 18… Yeah, still believes in gay marriage.
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I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.
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The biggest danger, for me, with making yourself your act is that a lot of people with think they know you for better or worse. That’s an ongoing struggle with me and it can get really trippy sometimes.
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If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?
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