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.
BO BURNHAMThere’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.
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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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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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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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.
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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 Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?
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I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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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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There’s a metal train that a mile long and at the very back end a lightning bolt struck her. How long til it reaches and kills the driver, provided that he’s a good conductor?
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I’m happy with what I’m doing. I try not to focus on how I’ve changed. I just try to focus on what I’m doing now.
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I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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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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It’s not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can on stage.
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The classic comedian says there’s nothing that’s taboo; if you laugh at one thing you’ve got to laugh at everything, that comedy is taking people to dark areas and showing them the light.
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I got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.
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