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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’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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Bored Half Needs Overstimulated Scene
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
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
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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Hate Love Person Reality Thinking
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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Country Funny Humor Long Met People
We’re having a traditional Thanksgiving – turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc.
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Blue Country Moon People
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
Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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Bible Jesus Kindness
Postmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
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Comedy Enjoy Fun
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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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Ability Math Music People Pretty
When life gets you down, make a comforter!
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Comforter Funny Humor
What’s that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I’ll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
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Internet Kings Pirate Song Try
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
Quotes are for dumb people who can’t think of something intelligent to say on their own.
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Funny Humor Intelligent
Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.
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Asian Country People Persons
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
For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
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Fifteen Funny Humor
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
I’m happy with what I’m doing. I try not to focus on how I’ve changed. I just try to focus on what I’m doing now.
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Changed Focus Happy Try Trying
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
The classic comedian says there’s nothing that’s taboo; if you laugh at one thing you’ve got to laugh at everything, that comedy is taking people to dark areas and showing them the light.
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Dark Laughing Light
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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Firsts Forever Wikipedia
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
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
There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.
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Certain Joke Lines Mind Poetry
Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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Funny Humor Poverty Racism
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

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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