Bo Burnham Quotes

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Bo Burnham

Profession : Comedian

Birth : August 21, 1990

I enjoy stand up so much because I take time off, and then I'll be excited to go back to it.

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The strength of comedy is I don't have to answer to anybody, but sometimes you want to learn from other people and see your ideas strengthen by other people.

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I didn't want to bash young people. I don't want to bash a kid for dreaming or wanting something or being slightly ambitious - that's not the problem. The actual problem is with the culture surrounding him.

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With 'Words, Words, Words,' that show was me experimenting with something, and then there was a clear direction for me.

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Since I got an audience before I even had a comic voice, my material that really wasn't worthy of an audience somehow got it, slightly unfairly.

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I don't really care about capitalizing on momentum.

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I'd much rather wait till my material is up to par, in my opinion, than rush it just so I can stay in the limelight a little longer.

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A lot of my fans are really young and seem slightly unsure and nervous about things. Hopefully for young people watching my show, it comes away that I'm pretty weird up there.

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I'm clearly doing what I want. I hope kids can see my act and feel like they can be slightly more comfortable in their own skin because I'm being so ridiculously comfortable in mine. I'm not that comfortable in my skin the moment I walk offstage. But I try to project that while I'm on it.

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I was being called a shock comic. I hated that. It's so cheap and stupid.

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If a comic is himself, there'll be things he can't do - because he has to adhere to that persona.

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People look at me and go, 'He's only successful because he's got a bunch of 16-year-old girls at his back who don't understand comedy.' Well, they do. In any case, no one hates me more than I do; no one's more self-conscious about that than I am.

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I'm left-brained, so I'm all about a mathematical approach to language. I've always been interested in that.

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Meta-comedy is everywhere and always seems so cold and to me is really kinda snarky.

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I've kind of stopped valuing laughter as the end-all measurement of what I'm doing.

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It's all about surprising people, and you're not surprising people if you're making them laugh every five seconds.

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I'd love to write a song that someone else sings that can actually sing really well.

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I feel lucky, where I'm not 'famous' famous. I'm not someone that everyone kind of knows for no reason. If people know who I am, they like me because if they didn't like me, they forgot about me.

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Facebook became ubiquitous when I was 16, so I vaguely formed a sense of myself a little bit. I had kind of learned to think a little bit before the stuff was everywhere.

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I don't want to monitor my audience too closely, as that can really drive you crazy.

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