I’d really love to make something that doesn’t involve my stupid face.
BO BURNHAMI 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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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.
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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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In the distance, Bo saw a fairy. A fairy so beautiful that he felt proud of being called one in highschool.
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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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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 get more ass than a giant donkey stable.
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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.
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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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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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I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
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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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If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there’s a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.
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I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.
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I actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost… my virginity.
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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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I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.
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For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.
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I know it’s the comedian’s instinct to say, “Do it, man, nothing’s off-limits! It’s cool, bro!” I don’t know if that’s the answer for me.
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At the time of ‘Words, Words, Words,’ I’m a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he’s entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that’s inherently a little bit ridiculous.
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Love is all about… whistles.
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Twitter is a lot like crystal meth, because it’s really fun to do and Oprah’s on it.
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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 saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer
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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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