Squaring numbers are just like women. If they’re under thirteen, just do them in your head.
BO BURNHAMI’m actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn’t say.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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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The classic comedian says there’s nothing that’s taboo; if you laugh at one thing you’ve got to laugh at everything, that comedy is taking people to dark areas and showing them the light.
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I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
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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?
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I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone’s watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.
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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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For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
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We’re having a traditional Thanksgiving – turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc.
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I got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.
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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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Women are like fingers and toes because they’re easy to count on.
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They must have some special kind of cereal!’ My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.
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Quotes are for dumb people who can’t think of something intelligent to say on their own.
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And if ten percent of men are gay and twenty percent of men are Chinese, what are the odds that a men chosen at random spends his free time and mealtime while on his knees.
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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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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’m actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn’t say.
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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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If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I’d still say no.
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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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I get more ass than a giant donkey stable.
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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 just try to do things on stage that I think the audience would enjoy. And I try to draw on and add to acts that I’ve enjoyed watching.
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I just think they aren’t true. I’m saying that our generation wants stuff that is substantial and challenging, as well as thoughtful and endearing. Well, I don’t know if I’m doing that, but I’m trying.
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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.
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