Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
BO BURNHAMAt 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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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Was Einstein’s theory good? Relatively.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Love is all about… whistles.
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Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.
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There’s a metal train that a mile long and at the very back end a lightning bolt struck her. How long til it reaches and kills the driver, provided that he’s a good conductor?
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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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I’m gay for Jesus, fill me with your grace. Pour your love all over me, but please aim away from my face.
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I’m also wary about the fact that if you don’t proceed with caution and understand what you’re doing, you understand these things are realities that you’re dealing with, they’re real things.
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We’re having a traditional Thanksgiving – turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc.
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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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I’m happy with what I’m doing. I try not to focus on how I’ve changed. I just try to focus on what I’m doing now.
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