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There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.

Bo Burnham

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
$Bo Burnham Quote - I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don’t have a great ear. It’s like a tragedy – I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.$

I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don’t have a great ear. It’s like a tragedy – I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.
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Ability Math Music People Pretty
If you can think of all the times in your life, some of the happiest times were probably when you were laughing. And some of the worst times in your life you were being laughed at.
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Laughing Thinking Worst Time
I’m gay for Jesus, fill me with your grace. Pour your love all over me, but please aim away from my face.
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Funny Gay Humor Jesus
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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Answers Ideas People
I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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Designer Funny Humor Love You
I believe, firmly, that women are always right. Ah, I should actually rephrase that: I… don’t.
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Belief Funny Humor
If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?
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Jesus Land Water
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
People do complain about the way I act on stage… They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.
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People Self Thinking
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
I feel more like I’m doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.
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Character Doing Feel Main
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
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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About Caution Real Things Understand
I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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Bears Beliefs Bipolar Mets
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

There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.

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