Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
BO BURNHAMIf I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I’d still say no.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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I don’t need anything as long as I have my family, friends, millions of dollars, unlimited pussy.
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Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don’t.
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When life gets you down, make a comforter!
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I get more ass than a giant donkey stable.
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I don’t try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
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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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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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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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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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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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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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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 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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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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Do you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
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