When things [writing] are over, I always think, ‘well, I’m never going to do anything again because I have no ideas so I’m going to go be a farmer’. Or else ideas will come and and if not then I become a farmer. Hopefully won’t happen.
BO BURNHAMI actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost… my virginity.
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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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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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 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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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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Where are all the sour patch parents?
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I get more ass than a giant donkey stable.
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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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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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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’ve been doin’ drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.
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At the time of ‘Words, Words, Words,’ I’m a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he’s entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that’s inherently a little bit ridiculous.
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Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don’t.
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When life gets you down, make a comforter!
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If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?
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And if ten percent of men are gay and twenty percent of men are Chinese, what are the odds that a men chosen at random spends his free time and mealtime while on his knees.
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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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I know it’s the comedian’s instinct to say, “Do it, man, nothing’s off-limits! It’s cool, bro!” I don’t know if that’s the answer for me.
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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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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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I’m not a grown up until everybody realises I’m a grown up. When everyone remembers me as the dirty kid singing little songs I am the dirty little kid.
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I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer
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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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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.
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I’m gay for Jesus, fill me with your grace. Pour your love all over me, but please aim away from my face.
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