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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.

Bo Burnham

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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Hate Love Person Reality Thinking
I actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost… my virginity.
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Funny Humor School
Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop’s another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you’re talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It’s like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.
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Art Aware Comedy Self Song
I’ve been doin’ drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.
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Bullets Car Newspaper
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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Strong Struggle Thinking
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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Add Thinking Trying
Because I see that as a crutch sometimes and I want to know that I can do something funny and worthwhile without that. And also make a show that my parents would like and that kids could watch with their parents.
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Like Parent Something Sometimes Watch
If you can think of all the times in your life, some of the happiest times were probably when you were laughing. And some of the worst times in your life you were being laughed at.
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Laughing Thinking Worst Time
And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
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Balls Funny Humor Person Two
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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Answers Ideas People
At the time of ‘Words, Words, Words,’ I’m a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he’s entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that’s inherently a little bit ridiculous.
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Feelings Thinking Time Years
If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there’s a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.
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Comedy Facts People
I think it’s using people, I think it’s like encouraging something that’s unhealthy, telling people you love them. “I love you.” Oh really, you love your fans?
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Encourage Fan Love Really Something Unhealthy
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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Comedy Inject Like Production
If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn’t respect that.
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Beliefs Hateful People
Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
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Cancer Funny Humor

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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