I’m actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn’t say.
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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Where are all the sour patch parents?
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I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.
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Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.
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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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How old is too old to stop believing in, like, the tooth fairy? Like 12? I’ve got a cousin who is 18… Yeah, still believes in gay marriage.
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Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
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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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We’re having a traditional Thanksgiving – turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc.
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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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They must have some special kind of cereal!’ My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.
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You love the people that give you money and attention? Of course you do, that’s not selfless that you love your fans, that’s ridiculous.
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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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For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
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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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Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don’t.
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The world doesn’t need any more hot chicks or tough guys or smooth talkers – the world needs more you. And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
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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 actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost… my virginity.
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Twitter is a lot like crystal meth, because it’s really fun to do and Oprah’s on it.
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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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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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I’m gay for Jesus, fill me with your grace. Pour your love all over me, but please aim away from my face.
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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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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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If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I’d still say no.
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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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