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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?

Bo Burnham

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
Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.
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Fake Kings Talent
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
“Do I really want to make a joke about a miscarriage when a woman in the audience might have had one?” I don’t worship comedy; at the end of the day I don’t fall to the altar of comedy unquestioningly.
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Audience Awordship Comedy Unwquestiongly
If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?
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Jesus Land Water
Do you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
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Country Guy Impression People
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
When things [writing] are over, I always think, ‘well, I’m never going to do anything again because I have no ideas so I’m going to go be a farmer’. Or else ideas will come and and if not then I become a farmer. Hopefully won’t happen.
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Ideas Thinking Writing
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
There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.
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Certain Joke Lines Mind Poetry
I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in – and I never went.
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College Dream Eight
The world doesn’t need any more hot chicks or tough guys or smooth talkers – the world needs more you. And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
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Anyone Otherwise Smooth Talker Tell
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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Simple Stuff Trying
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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Comedians Men Say Anything
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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Eras Golden Thinking
If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I’d still say no.
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Funny Guy Humor

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