Twitter is a lot like crystal meth, because it’s really fun to do and Oprah’s on it.
BO BURNHAMLaughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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For some comedians it feels so cool to be like: ‘I’ll say anything, man!’. I’m not quite there yet.
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I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.
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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 met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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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 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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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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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 think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it’s totally not, which is why I’m trying to get away from it because it’s just easy and automatic.
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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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You love the people that give you money and attention? Of course you do, that’s not selfless that you love your fans, that’s ridiculous.
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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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I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit around all day and think.
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At the time of ‘Words, Words, Words,’ I’m a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he’s entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that’s inherently a little bit ridiculous.
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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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