Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don’t.
BO BURNHAMMy 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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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 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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Where are all the sour patch parents?
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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.
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I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don’t want to construct the show to prove something.
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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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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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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 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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I get more ass than a giant donkey stable.
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I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit around all day and think.
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I got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.
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Because I see that as a crutch sometimes and I want to know that I can do something funny and worthwhile without that. And also make a show that my parents would like and that kids could watch with their parents.
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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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