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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.

Bo Burnham

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
If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?
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Jesus Land Water
Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.
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Fake Kings Talent
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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Comedy Levels Unexpected
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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Comedian Comedy Watches
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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Comedy Facts People
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
If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I’d still say no.
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Funny Guy Humor
I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.
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Close College Comedy Going
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
Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
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Best Laughter Medicine
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 feel more like I’m doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.
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Character Doing Feel Main
I get more ass than a giant donkey stable.
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Donkey Funny Giants Humor
Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don’t.
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Comedy Funny Humor Women
I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in – and I never went.
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College Dream Eight

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 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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