I don’t try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
BO BURNHAMPoverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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I’ve been doin’ drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.
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Was Einstein’s theory good? Relatively.
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Where are all the sour patch parents?
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Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
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I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don’t have a great ear. It’s like a tragedy – I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.
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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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I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in – and I never went.
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I remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, ‘Man, I wonder what famous people eat for breakfast.
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It’s not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can on stage.
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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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For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
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I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone’s watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.
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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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What’s that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I’ll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
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