I think it’s using people, I think it’s like encouraging something that’s unhealthy, telling people you love them. “I love you.” Oh really, you love your fans?
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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Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.
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We’re having a traditional Thanksgiving – turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc.
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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 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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“Do I really want to make a joke about a miscarriage when a woman in the audience might have had one?” I don’t worship comedy; at the end of the day I don’t fall to the altar of comedy unquestioningly.
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I always wanted to be a comedian and actor. I basically stumbled into the music medium, though. I’m OK, but that’s about it. I like to think I’m good enough not to negatively affect the performance.
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When life gets you down, make a comforter!
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There’s a metal train that a mile long and at the very back end a lightning bolt struck her. How long til it reaches and kills the driver, provided that he’s a good conductor?
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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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They must have some special kind of cereal!’ My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.
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I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.
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I get more ass than a giant donkey stable.
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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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I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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