I’m friends with a lot of comedians, but we don’t talk about material. Most comedians I know don’t watch a lot of other comedy.
BO BURNHAMPostmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
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The strength of comedy is I don’t have to answer to anybody but sometimes you want to learn from other people and see your ideas strengthen by other people.
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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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I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.
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Bitches and hoes don’t exist because the hoes know Bo’s a feminist.
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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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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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Postmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
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Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.
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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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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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The thing is, I was on YouTube like the golden era, I think. Before ads came in, it was really cool back then.
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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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Where are all the sour patch parents?
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Squaring numbers are just like women. If they’re under thirteen, just do them in your head.
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Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.
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