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.
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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Women are like fingers and toes because they’re easy to count on.
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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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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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I don’t need anything as long as I have my family, friends, millions of dollars, unlimited pussy.
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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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I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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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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I don’t want to try to recreate for no reason. Like, me in my bedroom, singing songs to a camera was a special thing that was at that time in my life. But I’m just not that kid. I like the format of it, but I want to be able to release things for free.
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All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls.
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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’m actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn’t say.
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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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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 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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Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.
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