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BO BURNHAMThe 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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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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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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And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
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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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Then the challenge is, once you left brain it and build it, then when you’re on stage you have to know it so well that you can get lost in it. I don’t want to be onstage looking like a robot,
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I’m interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they’re scary, and they’re important to think about.
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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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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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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 think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone’s watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.
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I don’t need anything as long as I have my family, friends, millions of dollars, unlimited pussy.
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People do complain about the way I act on stage… They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.
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Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.
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Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.
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