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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 Burnham

I feel more like I’m doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.
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Character Doing Feel Main
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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Answers Ideas People
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.
BO BURNHAM

Strong Struggle Thinking
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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College Dream Eight
Women are like fingers and toes because they’re easy to count on.
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Funny Humor Toes Women
For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
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Fifteen Funny Humor
There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.
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Certain Joke Lines Mind Poetry
I’m interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they’re scary, and they’re important to think about.
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Interested Real Scary Thinking
Is there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book.
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Anything Book Good Pussy
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.
BO BURNHAM

Comedy Levels Unexpected
I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.
BO BURNHAM

Close College Comedy Going
My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I’m going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.
BO BURNHAM

Faces Ideas Littles Persona
I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
BO BURNHAM

Funny Said Staring Stop
I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.
BO BURNHAM

Comedy Inject Like Production
Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don’t.
BO BURNHAM

Comedy Funny Humor Women
Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
BO BURNHAM

Cancer Funny Humor

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,

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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,

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