“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.
BO BURNHAMIt’s not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can on stage.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
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There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.
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I got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.
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I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it’s totally not, which is why I’m trying to get away from it because it’s just easy and automatic.
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I think comedy has a range, with multiple peaks in different areas. It’s like trying to compare Beethoven and the Beatles. Sometimes I hear from people, ‘I think you try too hard in your comedy.’ And that’s what I worry about.
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Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn’t respect that.
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When I see someone filming me, I don’t usually think, ‘No, man, don’t put this up online!’ I’d think, ‘Hey man, you don’t get to go to shows very often, put down the camera and enjoy it!’ I love going to theatre and to shows so much.
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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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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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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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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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I love you just the way you are but you don’t see you like I do. You shouldn’t try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you.
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I remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, ‘Man, I wonder what famous people eat for breakfast.
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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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