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.
BO BURNHAMAnd 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.
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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And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
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When things [writing] are over, I always think, ‘well, I’m never going to do anything again because I have no ideas so I’m going to go be a farmer’. Or else ideas will come and and if not then I become a farmer. Hopefully won’t happen.
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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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Was Einstein’s theory good? Relatively.
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I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.
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If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn’t respect that.
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Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
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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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Bitches and hoes don’t exist because the hoes know Bo’s a feminist.
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I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
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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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I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.
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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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