I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer
BO BURNHAMWomen are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don’t.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.
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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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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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I remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, ‘Man, I wonder what famous people eat for breakfast.
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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 love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
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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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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 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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Do you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
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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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Quotes are for dumb people who can’t think of something intelligent to say on their own.
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My first concern is that when you go to a show, you should be present. It’s much more exciting to put the camera down and lose yourself in it.
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And if ten percent of men are gay and twenty percent of men are Chinese, what are the odds that a men chosen at random spends his free time and mealtime while on his knees.
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