I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
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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I remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, ‘Man, I wonder what famous people eat for breakfast.
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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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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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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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The classic comedian says there’s nothing that’s taboo; if you laugh at one thing you’ve got to laugh at everything, that comedy is taking people to dark areas and showing them the light.
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For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
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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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I feel more like I’m doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.
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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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How old is too old to stop believing in, like, the tooth fairy? Like 12? I’ve got a cousin who is 18… Yeah, still believes in gay marriage.
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I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit around all day and think.
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Love is all about… whistles.
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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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Because I see that as a crutch sometimes and I want to know that I can do something funny and worthwhile without that. And also make a show that my parents would like and that kids could watch with their parents.
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