My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that’s a lovely addition.
BO BURNHAMSquaring numbers are just like women. If they’re under thirteen, just do them in your head.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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I 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.
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I got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.
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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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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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The thing is, I was on YouTube like the golden era, I think. Before ads came in, it was really cool back then.
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I’d really love to make something that doesn’t involve my stupid face.
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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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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’ve been doin’ drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.
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Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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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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I love you just the way you are but you don’t see you like I do. You shouldn’t try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you.
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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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They must have some special kind of cereal!’ My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.
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My persona is most importantly just to communicate the material in a way that is most funny and meaningful in the moment. It’s more like a character that’s sculpted for whatever joke needs communicating at the moment.
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