If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?
BO BURNHAMLaughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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 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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I think comedy has a range, with multiple peaks in different areas. It’s like trying to compare Beethoven and the Beatles. Sometimes I hear from people, ‘I think you try too hard in your comedy.’ And that’s what I worry about.
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When life gets you down, make a comforter!
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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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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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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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Love is all about… whistles.
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I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.
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I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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I’m actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn’t say.
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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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Do you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
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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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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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