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.
BO BURNHAMI get more ass than a giant donkey stable.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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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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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All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls.
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Squaring numbers are just like women. If they’re under thirteen, just do them in your head.
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There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.
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I’m friends with a lot of comedians, but we don’t talk about material. Most comedians I know don’t watch a lot of other comedy.
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Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it’s totally not, which is why I’m trying to get away from it because it’s just easy and automatic.
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If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn’t respect that.
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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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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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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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If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there’s a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.
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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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Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don’t.
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