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.
BO BURNHAMLaughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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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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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Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
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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 don’t want to try to recreate for no reason. Like, me in my bedroom, singing songs to a camera was a special thing that was at that time in my life. But I’m just not that kid. I like the format of it, but I want to be able to release things for free.
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If you can think of all the times in your life, some of the happiest times were probably when you were laughing. And some of the worst times in your life you were being laughed at.
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What’s that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I’ll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
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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 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 love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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Do you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
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I don’t like calling myself a “feminist” only because I don’t think I’ve done anything active enough to call myself one. It’d be like calling myself a civil rights activist just because I’m not racist.
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I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.
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If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn’t respect that.
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I’m bored way too easily. I’m staring at screens half the day. I need to be overstimulated. And how will that express itself artistically?
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