I just try to do things on stage that I think the audience would enjoy. And I try to draw on and add to acts that I’ve enjoyed watching.
BO BURNHAMI’m friends with a lot of comedians, but we don’t talk about material. Most comedians I know don’t watch a lot of other comedy.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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I remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, ‘Man, I wonder what famous people eat for breakfast.
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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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There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.
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For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
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I’m friends with a lot of comedians, but we don’t talk about material. Most comedians I know don’t watch a lot of other comedy.
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I feel more like I’m doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.
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The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever.
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I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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I believe, firmly, that women are always right. Ah, I should actually rephrase that: I… don’t.
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I just think they aren’t true. I’m saying that our generation wants stuff that is substantial and challenging, as well as thoughtful and endearing. Well, I don’t know if I’m doing that, but I’m trying.
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When life gets you down, make a comforter!
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I’m gay for Jesus, fill me with your grace. Pour your love all over me, but please aim away from my face.
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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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I’ve been doin’ drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.
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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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