I don’t try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
BO BURNHAMI 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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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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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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Squaring numbers are just like women. If they’re under thirteen, just do them in your head.
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Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.
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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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Because I see that as a crutch sometimes and I want to know that I can do something funny and worthwhile without that. And also make a show that my parents would like and that kids could watch with their parents.
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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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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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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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If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I’d still say no.
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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 met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
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Is there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book.
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