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.
BO BURNHAMIf your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn’t respect that.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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I just try to do things on stage that I think the audience would enjoy. And I try to draw on and add to acts that I’ve enjoyed watching.
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I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don’t have a great ear. It’s like a tragedy – I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.
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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 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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What’s that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I’ll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
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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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They must have some special kind of cereal!’ My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.
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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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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’ve been doin’ drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.
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When I see someone filming me, I don’t usually think, ‘No, man, don’t put this up online!’ I’d think, ‘Hey man, you don’t get to go to shows very often, put down the camera and enjoy it!’ I love going to theatre and to shows so much.
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I believe, firmly, that women are always right. Ah, I should actually rephrase that: I… don’t.
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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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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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I’m friends with a lot of comedians, but we don’t talk about material. Most comedians I know don’t watch a lot of other comedy.
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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 think it’s using people, I think it’s like encouraging something that’s unhealthy, telling people you love them. “I love you.” Oh really, you love your fans?
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Women are like fingers and toes because they’re easy to count on.
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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 never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
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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 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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Quotes are for dumb people who can’t think of something intelligent to say on their own.
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At the time of ‘Words, Words, Words,’ I’m a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he’s entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that’s inherently a little bit ridiculous.
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