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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.

Bo Burnham

I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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Designer Funny Humor Love You
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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Funny Gay Humor Jesus
There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.
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Certain Joke Lines Mind Poetry
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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Love Perfect Trying You
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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Comedy Facts People
They must have some special kind of cereal!’ My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.
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Fame Idea Mind Special
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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Brain Challenges Emotional
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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Character Meaningful Way
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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Changed Focus Happy Try Trying
When I see someone filming me, I don’t usually think, ‘No, man, don’t put this up online!’ I’d think, ‘Hey man, you don’t get to go to shows very often, put down the camera and enjoy it!’ I love going to theatre and to shows so much.
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Country Men People Theatre Thinking
The 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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Eras Golden Thinking
If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn’t respect that.
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Beliefs Hateful People
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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College Dream Eight
People do complain about the way I act on stage… They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.
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People Self Thinking
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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Interested Real Scary Thinking
I got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.
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Funny Humor Locks Safe

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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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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