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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.

Bo Burnham

I feel more like I’m doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.
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Character Doing Feel Main
Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.
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Fake Kings Talent
I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.
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Favors Littles Thinking
The average person has one Fallopian tube.
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Average Person Tube
Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don’t.
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Comedy Funny Humor Women
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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Cereal Men Remember Thinking
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.
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Faces Ideas Littles Persona
I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
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Funny Said Staring Stop
Where are all the sour patch parents?
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Funny Humor Parent
I’m actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn’t say.
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Actually Conversation Open Say
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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Comedy Levels Unexpected
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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People Thinking Worry
Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.
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Broke Celebrate Happy Thanksgiving
They must have some special kind of cereal!’ My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.
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Fame Idea Mind Special
I’d really love to make something that doesn’t involve my stupid face.
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Faces Something Stupid
Postmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
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Comedy Enjoy Fun

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