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People give me money and I don’t know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.

Bo Burnham

I never felt like I was stealing anyone’s fans as much as I was introducing some younger people to comedy who will eventually find tons of other comedians that they love.
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Comedian Fans People
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.
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Answers Ideas People
I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
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Funny Said Staring Stop
What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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Creative Funny Humor Life
I’m interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they’re scary, and they’re important to think about.
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Interested Real Scary Thinking
I believe, firmly, that women are always right. Ah, I should actually rephrase that: I… don’t.
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Belief Funny Humor
I’m actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn’t say.
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Actually Conversation Open Say
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?
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Encourage Fan Love Really Something Unhealthy
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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Favors Littles Thinking
The biggest danger, for me, with making yourself your act is that a lot of people with think they know you for better or worse. That’s an ongoing struggle with me and it can get really trippy sometimes.
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Strong Struggle Thinking
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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Country Feminist People Rights Thinking
Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop’s another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you’re talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It’s like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.
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Art Aware Comedy Self Song
I’m also wary about the fact that if you don’t proceed with caution and understand what you’re doing, you understand these things are realities that you’re dealing with, they’re real things.
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About Caution Real Things Understand
For some comedians it feels so cool to be like: ‘I’ll say anything, man!’. I’m not quite there yet.
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Comedians Men Say Anything
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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People Self Thinking
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

People give me money and I don’t know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.

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