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.
BO BURNHAMFor 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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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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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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Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
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I always wanted to be a comedian and actor. I basically stumbled into the music medium, though. I’m OK, but that’s about it. I like to think I’m good enough not to negatively affect the performance.
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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 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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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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Postmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
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And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
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I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in – and I never went.
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Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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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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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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Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.
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