I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.
BO BURNHAMI’m interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they’re scary, and they’re important to think about.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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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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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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.
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Postmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
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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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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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My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I’m going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.
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I believe, firmly, that women are always right. Ah, I should actually rephrase that: I… don’t.
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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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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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The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever.
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For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
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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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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’ve been doin’ drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.
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