I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.
BO BURNHAMI 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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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 strength of comedy is I don’t have to answer to anybody but sometimes you want to learn from other people and see your ideas strengthen by other people.
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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 you can think of all the times in your life, some of the happiest times were probably when you were laughing. And some of the worst times in your life you were being laughed at.
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People do complain about the way I act on stage… They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.
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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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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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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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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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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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And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
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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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Do you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
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The classic comedian says there’s nothing that’s taboo; if you laugh at one thing you’ve got to laugh at everything, that comedy is taking people to dark areas and showing them the light.
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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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