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.
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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Is there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book.
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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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Twitter is a lot like crystal meth, because it’s really fun to do and Oprah’s on it.
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Quotes are for dumb people who can’t think of something intelligent to say on their own.
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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 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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All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls.
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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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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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There’s a metal train that a mile long and at the very back end a lightning bolt struck her. How long til it reaches and kills the driver, provided that he’s a good conductor?
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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.
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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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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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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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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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