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?
BO BURNHAMBitches and hoes don’t exist because the hoes know Bo’s a feminist.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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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Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.
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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 love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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Twitter is a lot like crystal meth, because it’s really fun to do and Oprah’s on it.
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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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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 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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They must have some special kind of cereal!’ My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.
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When life gets you down, make a comforter!
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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 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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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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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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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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If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?
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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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Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.
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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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My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that’s a lovely addition.
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I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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Was Einstein’s theory good? Relatively.
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For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.
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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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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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