I never felt like I was stealing anyone’s fans as much as I was introducing some younger people to comedy who will eventually find tons of other comedians that they love.
BO BURNHAMThe strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I’d still say no.
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I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it’s totally not, which is why I’m trying to get away from it because it’s just easy and automatic.
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The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever.
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I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit around all day and think.
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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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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.
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Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
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I got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.
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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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I feel more like I’m doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.
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I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.
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My first concern is that when you go to a show, you should be present. It’s much more exciting to put the camera down and lose yourself in it.
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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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For some comedians it feels so cool to be like: ‘I’ll say anything, man!’. I’m not quite there yet.
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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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