I’m actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn’t say.
BO BURNHAMDo you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn’t respect that.
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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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Postmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
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For some comedians it feels so cool to be like: ‘I’ll say anything, man!’. I’m not quite there yet.
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Is there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book.
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When 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.
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For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
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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 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 got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.
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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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Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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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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Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.
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Then the challenge is, once you left brain it and build it, then when you’re on stage you have to know it so well that you can get lost in it. I don’t want to be onstage looking like a robot,
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