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,
BO BURNHAMThe 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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.
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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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Bitches and hoes don’t exist because the hoes know Bo’s a feminist.
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Postmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
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I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.
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Where are all the sour patch parents?
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When life gets you down, make a comforter!
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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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I get more ass than a giant donkey stable.
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Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.
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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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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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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 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.
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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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