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.
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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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I’m interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they’re scary, and they’re important to think about.
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Comedy 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.
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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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In the distance, Bo saw a fairy. A fairy so beautiful that he felt proud of being called one in highschool.
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Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.
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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’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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I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don’t have a great ear. It’s like a tragedy – I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.
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I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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People do complain about the way I act on stage… They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.
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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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Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
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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 met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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Women are like fingers and toes because they’re easy to count on.
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