Postmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
BO BURNHAMComedy 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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don’t have a great ear. It’s like a tragedy – I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.
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If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn’t respect that.
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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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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 just the way you are but you don’t see you like I do. You shouldn’t try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you.
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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 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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I’ve been doin’ drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.
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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.
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Twitter is a lot like crystal meth, because it’s really fun to do and Oprah’s on it.
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I feel more like I’m doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.
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When life gets you down, make a comforter!
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I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer
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Bitches and hoes don’t exist because the hoes know Bo’s a feminist.
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In the distance, Bo saw a fairy. A fairy so beautiful that he felt proud of being called one in highschool.
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