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.
BO BURNHAMI 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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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I’d really love to make something that doesn’t involve my stupid face.
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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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I think it’s using people, I think it’s like encouraging something that’s unhealthy, telling people you love them. “I love you.” Oh really, you love your fans?
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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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Squaring numbers are just like women. If they’re under thirteen, just do them in your head.
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Then the challenge is, once you left brain it and build it, then when you’re on stage you have to know it so well that you can get lost in it. I don’t want to be onstage looking like a robot,
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My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that’s a lovely addition.
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I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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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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If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?
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If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn’t respect that.
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Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
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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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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 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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