I think it’s using people, I think it’s like encouraging something that’s unhealthy, telling people you love them. “I love you.” Oh really, you love your fans?
BO BURNHAMIf 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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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I’m actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn’t say.
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I don’t like calling myself a “feminist” only because I don’t think I’ve done anything active enough to call myself one. It’d be like calling myself a civil rights activist just because I’m not racist.
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Because I see that as a crutch sometimes and I want to know that I can do something funny and worthwhile without that. And also make a show that my parents would like and that kids could watch with their parents.
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People give me money and I don’t know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.
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I got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.
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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?
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If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?
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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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I don’t need anything as long as I have my family, friends, millions of dollars, unlimited pussy.
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Was Einstein’s theory good? Relatively.
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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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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.
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All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls.
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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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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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