My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I’m going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.
BO BURNHAMMy first concern is that when you go to a show, you should be present. It’s much more exciting to put the camera down and lose yourself in it.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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The biggest danger, for me, with making yourself your act is that a lot of people with think they know you for better or worse. That’s an ongoing struggle with me and it can get really trippy sometimes.
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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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Postmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
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And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
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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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Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.
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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 first concern is that when you go to a show, you should be present. It’s much more exciting to put the camera down and lose yourself in it.
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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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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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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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If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn’t respect that.
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The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever.
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