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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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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If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I’d still say no.
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Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
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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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Is there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book.
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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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My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that’s a lovely addition.
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We’re having a traditional Thanksgiving – turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc.
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Then the challenge is, once you left brain it and build it, then when you’re on stage you have to know it so well that you can get lost in it. I don’t want to be onstage looking like a robot,
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I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
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Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
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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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I’d really love to make something that doesn’t involve my stupid face.
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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.
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Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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