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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.

Bo Burnham

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
And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
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Balls Funny Humor Person Two
You love the people that give you money and attention? Of course you do, that’s not selfless that you love your fans, that’s ridiculous.
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Attention Love Money Ridiculous Selfless
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
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
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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Dirty Grow Kids Song
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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Strong Struggle Thinking
I don’t like calling myself a “feminist” only because I don’t think I’ve done anything active enough to call myself one. It’d be like calling myself a civil rights activist just because I’m not racist.
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Country Feminist People Rights Thinking
And if ten percent of men are gay and twenty percent of men are Chinese, what are the odds that a men chosen at random spends his free time and mealtime while on his knees.
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Country Funny Gay Humor Meet Time
I believe, firmly, that women are always right. Ah, I should actually rephrase that: I… don’t.
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Belief Funny Humor
Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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Bible Jesus Kindness
I feel more like I’m doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.
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Character Doing Feel Main
Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.
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Broke Celebrate Happy Thanksgiving
Was Einstein’s theory good? Relatively.
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Funny Humor Theory
Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
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Cancer Funny Humor
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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Comedian Fans People

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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