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Postmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy.

Bo Burnham

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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Character Names Play
Women are like fingers and toes because they’re easy to count on.
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Funny Humor Toes Women
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 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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Controversial Thinking Trying
Do you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
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Country Guy Impression People
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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Funny Girlfriend Uncle
Was Einstein’s theory good? Relatively.
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Funny Humor Theory
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.
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Math Philosophy School
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
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
They must have some special kind of cereal!’ My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.
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Fame Idea Mind Special
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
When life gets you down, make a comforter!
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Comforter Funny Humor
Twitter is a lot like crystal meth, because it’s really fun to do and Oprah’s on it.
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Crystals Funny Humor
Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don’t.
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Comedy Funny Humor Women
Squaring numbers are just like women. If they’re under thirteen, just do them in your head.
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Isquaring Numbers Thirteen

Postmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy.

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