Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
BO BURNHAMIt’s not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can on stage.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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For some comedians it feels so cool to be like: ‘I’ll say anything, man!’. I’m not quite there yet.
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I don’t like calling myself a “feminist” only because I don’t think I’ve done anything active enough to call myself one. It’d be like calling myself a civil rights activist just because I’m not racist.
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I’m a stand up comic and I always sit and slouch, and I got my girlfriend pregnant on my sterile uncles pull-out couch.
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I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
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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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Was Einstein’s theory good? Relatively.
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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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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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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 love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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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 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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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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I never felt like I was stealing anyone’s fans as much as I was introducing some younger people to comedy who will eventually find tons of other comedians that they love.
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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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