The classic comedian says there’s nothing that’s taboo; if you laugh at one thing you’ve got to laugh at everything, that comedy is taking people to dark areas and showing them the light.
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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Where are all the sour patch parents?
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“Do I really want to make a joke about a miscarriage when a woman in the audience might have had one?” I don’t worship comedy; at the end of the day I don’t fall to the altar of comedy unquestioningly.
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I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don’t have a great ear. It’s like a tragedy – I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.
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I’m happy with what I’m doing. I try not to focus on how I’ve changed. I just try to focus on what I’m doing now.
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Then the challenge is, once you left brain it and build it, then when you’re on stage you have to know it so well that you can get lost in it. I don’t want to be onstage looking like a robot,
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I’m gay for Jesus, fill me with your grace. Pour your love all over me, but please aim away from my face.
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Is there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book.
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I’m not a grown up until everybody realises I’m a grown up. When everyone remembers me as the dirty kid singing little songs I am the dirty little kid.
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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 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.
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When I see someone filming me, I don’t usually think, ‘No, man, don’t put this up online!’ I’d think, ‘Hey man, you don’t get to go to shows very often, put down the camera and enjoy it!’ I love going to theatre and to shows so much.
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I don’t need anything as long as I have my family, friends, millions of dollars, unlimited pussy.
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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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Twitter is a lot like crystal meth, because it’s really fun to do and Oprah’s on it.
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Bitches and hoes don’t exist because the hoes know Bo’s a feminist.
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I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.
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The average person has one Fallopian tube.
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I feel more like I’m doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.
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I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone’s watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.
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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 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 think it’s using people, I think it’s like encouraging something that’s unhealthy, telling people you love them. “I love you.” Oh really, you love your fans?
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Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
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If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?
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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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