Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
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’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?
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Where are all the sour patch parents?
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What’s that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I’ll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
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I’m not a grown up until everybody realises I’m a grown up. When everyone remembers me as the dirty kid singing little songs I am the dirty little kid.
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If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?
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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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There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.
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And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
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Postmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
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My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I’m going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.
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I’m interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they’re scary, and they’re important to think about.
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Bitches and hoes don’t exist because the hoes know Bo’s a feminist.
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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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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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I’m a stand up comic and I always sit and slouch, and I got my girlfriend pregnant on my sterile uncles pull-out couch.
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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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I actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost… my virginity.
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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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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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I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.
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In the distance, Bo saw a fairy. A fairy so beautiful that he felt proud of being called one in highschool.
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Do you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
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My persona is most importantly just to communicate the material in a way that is most funny and meaningful in the moment. It’s more like a character that’s sculpted for whatever joke needs communicating at the moment.
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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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Twitter is a lot like crystal meth, because it’s really fun to do and Oprah’s on it.
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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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