I just try to do things on stage that I think the audience would enjoy. And I try to draw on and add to acts that I’ve enjoyed watching.
BO BURNHAMI actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost… my virginity.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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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If you can think of all the times in your life, some of the happiest times were probably when you were laughing. And some of the worst times in your life you were being laughed at.
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Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
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And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
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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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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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Where are all the sour patch parents?
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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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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’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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It’s not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can on stage.
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There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.
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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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My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I’m going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.
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I got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.
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