I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.
BO BURNHAMComedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop’s another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you’re talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It’s like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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Was Einstein’s theory good? Relatively.
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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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“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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For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
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Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.
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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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Quotes are for dumb people who can’t think of something intelligent to say on their own.
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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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I got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.
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Is there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book.
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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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I’m a stand up comic and I always sit and slouch, and I got my girlfriend pregnant on my sterile uncles pull-out couch.
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Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
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I 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.
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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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