Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
BO BURNHAMI never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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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Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
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If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn’t respect that.
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I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
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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 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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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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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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Postmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
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I just try to do things on stage that I think the audience would enjoy. And I try to draw on and add to acts that I’ve enjoyed watching.
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I 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?
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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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“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 fingers and toes because they’re easy to count on.
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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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I don’t want to try to recreate for no reason. Like, me in my bedroom, singing songs to a camera was a special thing that was at that time in my life. But I’m just not that kid. I like the format of it, but I want to be able to release things for free.
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I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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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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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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How old is too old to stop believing in, like, the tooth fairy? Like 12? I’ve got a cousin who is 18… Yeah, still believes in gay marriage.
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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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I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone’s watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.
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The classic comedian says there’s nothing that’s taboo; if you laugh at one thing you’ve got to laugh at everything, that comedy is taking people to dark areas and showing them the light.
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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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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 believe, firmly, that women are always right. Ah, I should actually rephrase that: I… don’t.
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