I don’t try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
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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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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I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don’t want to construct the show to prove something.
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For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
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And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
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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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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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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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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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Twitter is a lot like crystal meth, because it’s really fun to do and Oprah’s on it.
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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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They must have some special kind of cereal!’ My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.
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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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I believe, firmly, that women are always right. Ah, I should actually rephrase that: I… don’t.
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Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.
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Do you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
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