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I’m gay for Jesus, fill me with your grace. Pour your love all over me, but please aim away from my face.

Bo Burnham

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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People Thinking Worry
“Do I really want to make a joke about a miscarriage when a woman in the audience might have had one?” I don’t worship comedy; at the end of the day I don’t fall to the altar of comedy unquestioningly.
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Audience Awordship Comedy Unwquestiongly
The thing is, I was on YouTube like the golden era, I think. Before ads came in, it was really cool back then.
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Eras Golden Thinking
They must have some special kind of cereal!’ My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.
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Fame Idea Mind Special
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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Art Aware Comedy Self Song
When life gets you down, make a comforter!
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Comforter Funny Humor
I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.
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Close College Comedy Going
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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Kids Singing Song
There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.
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Certain Joke Lines Mind Poetry
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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Comedian Comedy Watches
Postmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
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Comedy Enjoy Fun
I just try to do things on stage that I think the audience would enjoy. And I try to draw on and add to acts that I’ve enjoyed watching.
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Add Thinking Trying
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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Feelings Thinking Time Years
Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
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Cancer Funny Humor
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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Bored Half Needs Overstimulated Scene
Women are like fingers and toes because they’re easy to count on.
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Funny Humor Toes Women

I’m gay for Jesus, fill me with your grace. Pour your love all over me, but please aim away from my face.

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