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.
BO BURNHAMPostmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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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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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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,
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Do you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
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I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone’s watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.
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Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.
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I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.
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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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All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls.
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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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If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?
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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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And if ten percent of men are gay and twenty percent of men are Chinese, what are the odds that a men chosen at random spends his free time and mealtime while on his knees.
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I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don’t want to construct the show to prove something.
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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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