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I got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.

Bo Burnham

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.
BO BURNHAM

People Thinking Worry
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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People Self Thinking
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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Feelings Thinking Time Years
All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls.
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Dirty Funny 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
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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Believe Cousin Gay
I don’t try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
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Simple Stuff Trying
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
Was Einstein’s theory good? Relatively.
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Funny Humor Theory
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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Laughing Thinking Worst Time
I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer
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Deer Necks Saws
I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.
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Favors Littles Thinking
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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Firsts Forever Wikipedia
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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Funny Gay Humor Jesus
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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Add Thinking Trying
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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Cereal Men Remember Thinking

I got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.

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