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.
BO BURNHAMI’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?
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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 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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I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer
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I don’t try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
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Where are all the sour patch parents?
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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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Bitches and hoes don’t exist because the hoes know Bo’s a feminist.
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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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I always wanted to be a comedian and actor. I basically stumbled into the music medium, though. I’m OK, but that’s about it. I like to think I’m good enough not to negatively affect the performance.
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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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Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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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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Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don’t.
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I get more ass than a giant donkey stable.
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I don’t like calling myself a “feminist” only because I don’t think I’ve done anything active enough to call myself one. It’d be like calling myself a civil rights activist just because I’m not racist.
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