I know it’s the comedian’s instinct to say, “Do it, man, nothing’s off-limits! It’s cool, bro!” I don’t know if that’s the answer for me.
BO BURNHAMI’m interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they’re scary, and they’re important to think about.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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’ve been doin’ drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.
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Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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We’re having a traditional Thanksgiving – turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc.
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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 don’t need anything as long as I have my family, friends, millions of dollars, unlimited pussy.
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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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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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If you can think of all the times in your life, some of the happiest times were probably when you were laughing. And some of the worst times in your life you were being laughed at.
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I’m bored way too easily. I’m staring at screens half the day. I need to be overstimulated. And how will that express itself artistically?
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I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I’d still say no.
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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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And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
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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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I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer
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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 actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost… my virginity.
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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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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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If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn’t respect that.
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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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There’s a metal train that a mile long and at the very back end a lightning bolt struck her. How long til it reaches and kills the driver, provided that he’s a good conductor?
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I get more ass than a giant donkey stable.
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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 just think they aren’t true. I’m saying that our generation wants stuff that is substantial and challenging, as well as thoughtful and endearing. Well, I don’t know if I’m doing that, but I’m trying.
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