I actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost… my virginity.
BO BURNHAMFor fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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And if ten percent of men are gay and twenty percent of men are Chinese, what are the odds that a men chosen at random spends his free time and mealtime while on his knees.
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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’d really love to make something that doesn’t involve my stupid face.
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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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For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.
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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 remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, ‘Man, I wonder what famous people eat for breakfast.
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Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.
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Is there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book.
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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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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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If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn’t respect that.
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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 just think they aren’t true. I’m saying that our generation wants stuff that is substantial and challenging, as well as thoughtful and endearing. Well, I don’t know if I’m doing that, but I’m trying.
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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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