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.
BO BURNHAMI never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
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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 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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“Do I really want to make a joke about a miscarriage when a woman in the audience might have had one?” I don’t worship comedy; at the end of the day I don’t fall to the altar of comedy unquestioningly.
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People give me money and I don’t know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.
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I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer
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My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that’s a lovely addition.
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Was Einstein’s theory good? Relatively.
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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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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.
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If you can think of all the times in your life, some of the happiest times were probably when you were laughing. And some of the worst times in your life you were being laughed at.
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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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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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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 never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
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