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 BURNHAMI 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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
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I’m friends with a lot of comedians, but we don’t talk about material. Most comedians I know don’t watch a lot of other comedy.
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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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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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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 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 love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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The strength of comedy is I don’t have to answer to anybody but sometimes you want to learn from other people and see your ideas strengthen by other people.
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Squaring numbers are just like women. If they’re under thirteen, just do them in your head.
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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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Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.
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When life gets you down, make a comforter!
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I believe, firmly, that women are always right. Ah, I should actually rephrase that: I… don’t.
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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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