My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that’s a lovely addition.
BO BURNHAMPoetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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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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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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The world doesn’t need any more hot chicks or tough guys or smooth talkers – the world needs more you. And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
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“Do I really want to make a joke about a miscarriage when a woman in the audience might have had one?” I don’t worship comedy; at the end of the day I don’t fall to the altar of comedy unquestioningly.
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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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My persona is most importantly just to communicate the material in a way that is most funny and meaningful in the moment. It’s more like a character that’s sculpted for whatever joke needs communicating at the moment.
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They must have some special kind of cereal!’ My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.
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I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.
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Women are like fingers and toes because they’re easy to count on.
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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 do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.
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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 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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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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Love is all about… whistles.
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I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.
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Where are all the sour patch parents?
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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 happy with what I’m doing. I try not to focus on how I’ve changed. I just try to focus on what I’m doing now.
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I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
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I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer
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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 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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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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