I’ve been doin’ drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.
BO BURNHAMWhen 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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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My persona is most importantly just to communicate the material in a way that is most funny and meaningful in the moment. It’s more like a character that’s sculpted for whatever joke needs communicating at the moment.
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Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
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I’m not a grown up until everybody realises I’m a grown up. When everyone remembers me as the dirty kid singing little songs I am the dirty little kid.
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For some comedians it feels so cool to be like: ‘I’ll say anything, man!’. I’m not quite there yet.
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I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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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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All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls.
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It’s not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can on stage.
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Do you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
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Love is all about… whistles.
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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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Is there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book.
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If you can think of all the times in your life, some of the happiest times were probably when you were laughing. And some of the worst times in your life you were being laughed at.
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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 know it’s the comedian’s instinct to say, “Do it, man, nothing’s off-limits! It’s cool, bro!” I don’t know if that’s the answer for me.
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