Do you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
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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My 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.
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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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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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Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
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Was Einstein’s theory good? Relatively.
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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’ve been doin’ drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.
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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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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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Is there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book.
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I’m not a grown up until everybody realises I’m a grown up. When everyone remembers me as the dirty kid singing little songs I am the dirty little kid.
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And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
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Love is all about… whistles.
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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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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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