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It’s not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can on stage.

Bo Burnham

Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
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Best Laughter Medicine
It’s not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can on stage.
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Character Names Play
I’m actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn’t say.
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Actually Conversation Open Say
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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Camera Down And Firsts
Squaring numbers are just like women. If they’re under thirteen, just do them in your head.
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Isquaring Numbers Thirteen
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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College Dream Eight
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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Love Perfect Trying You
I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
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Funny Said Staring Stop
I’m bored way too easily. I’m staring at screens half the day. I need to be overstimulated. And how will that express itself artistically?
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Bored Half Needs Overstimulated Scene
Love is all about… whistles.
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About Love Whistle
Is there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book.
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Anything Book Good Pussy
Then the challenge is, once you left brain it and build it, then when you’re on stage you have to know it so well that you can get lost in it. I don’t want to be onstage looking like a robot,
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Brain Challenges Emotional
I know it’s the comedian’s instinct to say, “Do it, man, nothing’s off-limits! It’s cool, bro!” I don’t know if that’s the answer for me.
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Fall Know Men Miscarriage
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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Endearing Generation Just Say Sustainable Trying
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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Kids Singing Song
There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.
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Certain Joke Lines Mind Poetry
The average person has one Fallopian tube.
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Average Person Tube
The biggest danger, for me, with making yourself your act is that a lot of people with think they know you for better or worse. That’s an ongoing struggle with me and it can get really trippy sometimes.
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Strong Struggle Thinking
Quotes are for dumb people who can’t think of something intelligent to say on their own.
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Funny Humor Intelligent
I feel more like I’m doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.
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Character Doing Feel Main
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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Comedy Levels Unexpected
Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
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Cancer Funny Humor
Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop’s another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you’re talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It’s like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.
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Art Aware Comedy Self Song
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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Character Meaningful Way
Women are like fingers and toes because they’re easy to count on.
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Funny Humor Toes Women
If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I’d still say no.
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Funny Guy Humor
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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Controversial Thinking Trying

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