I’d really love to make something that doesn’t involve my stupid face.
BO BURNHAMI’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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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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Where are all the sour patch parents?
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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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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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The thing is, I was on YouTube like the golden era, I think. Before ads came in, it was really cool back then.
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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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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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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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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 believe, firmly, that women are always right. Ah, I should actually rephrase that: I… don’t.
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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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Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
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I get more ass than a giant donkey stable.
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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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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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