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.
BO BURNHAMI 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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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I love you just the way you are but you don’t see you like I do. You shouldn’t try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you.
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I’d really love to make something that doesn’t involve my stupid face.
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I don’t need anything as long as I have my family, friends, millions of dollars, unlimited pussy.
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For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
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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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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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Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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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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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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Twitter is a lot like crystal meth, because it’s really fun to do and Oprah’s on it.
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I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
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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’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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I don’t like calling myself a “feminist” only because I don’t think I’ve done anything active enough to call myself one. It’d be like calling myself a civil rights activist just because I’m not racist.
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