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.
BO BURNHAMThe 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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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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Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
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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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I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
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Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.
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Love is all about… whistles.
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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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The average person has one Fallopian tube.
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The thing is, I was on YouTube like the golden era, I think. Before ads came in, it was really cool back then.
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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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Was Einstein’s theory good? Relatively.
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I always wanted to be a comedian and actor. I basically stumbled into the music medium, though. I’m OK, but that’s about it. I like to think I’m good enough not to negatively affect the performance.
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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 saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer
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For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
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