If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?
BO BURNHAMPoverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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I’m friends with a lot of comedians, but we don’t talk about material. Most comedians I know don’t watch a lot of other comedy.
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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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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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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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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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Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
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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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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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I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
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I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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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’m also wary about the fact that if you don’t proceed with caution and understand what you’re doing, you understand these things are realities that you’re dealing with, they’re real things.
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I know it’s the comedian’s instinct to say, “Do it, man, nothing’s off-limits! It’s cool, bro!” I don’t know if that’s the answer for me.
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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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Love is all about… whistles.
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