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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.

Bo Burnham

How old is too old to stop believing in, like, the tooth fairy? Like 12? I’ve got a cousin who is 18… Yeah, still believes in gay marriage.
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Believe Cousin Gay
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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Faces Ideas Littles Persona
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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Country Feminist People Rights Thinking
When life gets you down, make a comforter!
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Comforter Funny Humor
My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that’s a lovely addition.
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Lovely People Trying
Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
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Cancer Funny Humor
I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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Designer Funny Humor Love You
Where are all the sour patch parents?
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Funny Humor Parent
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.
BO BURNHAM

Camera Down And Firsts
Squaring numbers are just like women. If they’re under thirteen, just do them in your head.
BO BURNHAM

Isquaring Numbers Thirteen
I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit around all day and think.
BO BURNHAM

Math Philosophy School
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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Dark Laughing Light
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.
BO BURNHAM

Fall Know Men Miscarriage
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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Character Meaningful Way
I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.
BO BURNHAM

Comedy Inject Like Production
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
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
Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
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Best Laughter Medicine
I believe, firmly, that women are always right. Ah, I should actually rephrase that: I… don’t.
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Belief Funny Humor
I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.
BO BURNHAM

Favors Littles Thinking
I love you just the way you are but you don’t see you like I do. You shouldn’t try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you.
BO BURNHAM

Love Perfect Trying You
What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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Creative Funny Humor Life
Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.
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Broke Celebrate Happy Thanksgiving
Do you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
BO BURNHAM

Country Guy Impression People
I’d really love to make something that doesn’t involve my stupid face.
BO BURNHAM

Faces Something Stupid
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,
BO BURNHAM

Brain Challenges Emotional
When I see someone filming me, I don’t usually think, ‘No, man, don’t put this up online!’ I’d think, ‘Hey man, you don’t get to go to shows very often, put down the camera and enjoy it!’ I love going to theatre and to shows so much.
BO BURNHAM

Country Men People Theatre Thinking

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