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.
BO BURNHAMI’m gay for Jesus, fill me with your grace. Pour your love all over me, but please aim away from my face.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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People give me money and I don’t know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.
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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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Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.
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If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn’t respect that.
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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 just think they aren’t true. I’m saying that our generation wants stuff that is substantial and challenging, as well as thoughtful and endearing. Well, I don’t know if I’m doing that, but I’m trying.
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All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls.
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Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
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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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When things [writing] are over, I always think, ‘well, I’m never going to do anything again because I have no ideas so I’m going to go be a farmer’. Or else ideas will come and and if not then I become a farmer. Hopefully won’t happen.
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The biggest danger, for me, with making yourself your act is that a lot of people with think they know you for better or worse. That’s an ongoing struggle with me and it can get really trippy sometimes.
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When I see someone filming me, I don’t usually think, ‘No, man, don’t put this up online!’ I’d think, ‘Hey man, you don’t get to go to shows very often, put down the camera and enjoy it!’ I love going to theatre and to shows so much.
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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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There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.
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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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