I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.
BO BURNHAMI like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.
BO BURNHAMI feel more like I’m doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.
BO BURNHAMQuotes are for dumb people who can’t think of something intelligent to say on their own.
BO BURNHAMAll you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls.
BO BURNHAMI think comedy has a range, with multiple peaks in different areas. It’s like trying to compare Beethoven and the Beatles. Sometimes I hear from people, ‘I think you try too hard in your comedy.’ And that’s what I worry about.
BO BURNHAMAnd two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
BO BURNHAMBecause 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.
BO BURNHAMWhen life gets you down, make a comforter!
BO BURNHAMI 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.
BO BURNHAMI 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 BURNHAMI’m interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they’re scary, and they’re important to think about.
BO BURNHAMWhen 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 work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don’t want to construct the show to prove something.
BO BURNHAMAt 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.
BO BURNHAMI got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.
BO BURNHAMI actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost… my virginity.
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