Postmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
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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When things [writing] are over, I always think, ‘well, I’m never going to do anything again because I have no ideas so I’m going to go be a farmer’. Or else ideas will come and and if not then I become a farmer. Hopefully won’t happen.
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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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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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I’ve been doin’ drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.
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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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When life gets you down, make a comforter!
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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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Where are all the sour patch parents?
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I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
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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 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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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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And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
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The biggest danger, for me, with making yourself your act is that a lot of people with think they know you for better or worse. That’s an ongoing struggle with me and it can get really trippy sometimes.
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