I’m bored way too easily. I’m staring at screens half the day. I need to be overstimulated. And how will that express itself artistically?
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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Squaring numbers are just like women. If they’re under thirteen, just do them in your head.
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I feel more like I’m doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.
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I’d really love to make something that doesn’t involve my stupid face.
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I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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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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The biggest danger, for me, with making yourself your act is that a lot of people with think they know you for better or worse. That’s an ongoing struggle with me and it can get really trippy sometimes.
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For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
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My first concern is that when you go to a show, you should be present. It’s much more exciting to put the camera down and lose yourself in it.
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Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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Postmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
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There’s a metal train that a mile long and at the very back end a lightning bolt struck her. How long til it reaches and kills the driver, provided that he’s a good conductor?
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I’m interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they’re scary, and they’re important to think about.
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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.
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Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.
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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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Bitches and hoes don’t exist because the hoes know Bo’s a feminist.
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Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.
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I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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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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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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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’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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My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I’m going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.
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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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