For some comedians it feels so cool to be like: ‘I’ll say anything, man!’. I’m not quite there yet.
BO BURNHAMIf Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.
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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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I believe, firmly, that women are always right. Ah, I should actually rephrase that: I… don’t.
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Love is all about… whistles.
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Postmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
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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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And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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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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Bitches and hoes don’t exist because the hoes know Bo’s a feminist.
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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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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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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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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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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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And if ten percent of men are gay and twenty percent of men are Chinese, what are the odds that a men chosen at random spends his free time and mealtime while on his knees.
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There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.
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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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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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When things [writing] are over, I always think, ‘well, I’m never going to do anything again because I have no ideas so I’m going to go be a farmer’. Or else ideas will come and and if not then I become a farmer. Hopefully won’t happen.
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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 chose to do comedy instead of going to college.
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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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Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop’s another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you’re talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It’s like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.
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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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