I don’t want to try to recreate for no reason. Like, me in my bedroom, singing songs to a camera was a special thing that was at that time in my life. But I’m just not that kid. I like the format of it, but I want to be able to release things for free.
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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If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?
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I actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost… my virginity.
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Bitches and hoes don’t exist because the hoes know Bo’s a feminist.
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My first concern is that when you go to a show, you should be present. It’s much more exciting to put the camera down and lose yourself in it.
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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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Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
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If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I’d still say no.
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I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.
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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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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 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 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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Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
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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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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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