Bo Burnham Quotes
Top 92 wise famous quotes and sayings by Bo Burnham
Bo Burnham Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I've always liked the format of YouTube, sharing things for free, which is a nice exchange between people.
In high school, 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.
I've found nothing but support and generosity from older comics. I think comedians are a lot nicer than the stigma is, at least from my experience.
Searching I'm not looking in every nook and cranny for it. I'll do the nooks. No way I left my keys in some fucking cranny.
I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone's watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.
I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.
I think the comedy clubs tend to homogenize the acts a little bit, because they force them to be palatable in way too many environments.
I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.
I'm gay for Jesus, fill me with your grace. Pour your love all over me, but please aim away from my face.
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.
People ask me all the time, ALL the time, they say the same exact thing. They say, 'Bo, you're an artist ... how do we fix Africa?'
Judge Jesus I said, "You can't judge me. Only Jesus can!" He said, "Well I can 'cause I'm a judge and 'cause you just killed a man.
The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever.
I'm happy with what I'm doing. I try not to focus on how I've changed. I just try to focus on what I'm doing now.
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
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?
Postmodern comedy doesn't work well with very old audiences, because it's making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
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.
We're having a traditional Thanksgiving - turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc.
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.
My whole family thinks I'm gay, I guess it's always been that way. Maybe it's 'cause of the way that I walk, Makes them think I like ... boys.
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.
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.
People give me money and I don't know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.
In the distance, Bo saw a fairy. A fairy so beautiful that he felt proud of being called one in highschool.
You How, may I ask, did you get so you, you beautiful true-to-you doer? I've met many today but can honestly say that I've never met anyone you-er.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I'm thankful for all of you. I am not thankful for the pilgrims. Buckles should never be on hats.