Postmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
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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.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham The classic comedian says there’s nothing that’s taboo; if you laugh at one thing you’ve got to laugh at everything, that comedy is taking people to dark areas and showing them the light.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham Where are all the sour patch parents?
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham Squaring numbers are just like women. If they’re under thirteen, just do them in your head.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost… my virginity.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham 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.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham When I see someone filming me, I don’t usually think, ‘No, man, don’t put this up online!’ I’d think, ‘Hey man, you don’t get to go to shows very often, put down the camera and enjoy it!’ I love going to theatre and to shows so much.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don’t.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don’t want to construct the show to prove something.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham There’s a metal train that a mile long and at the very back end a lightning bolt struck her. How long til it reaches and kills the driver, provided that he’s a good conductor?
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham Was Einstein’s theory good? Relatively.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham Then the challenge is, once you left brain it and build it, then when you’re on stage you have to know it so well that you can get lost in it. I don’t want to be onstage looking like a robot,
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham 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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