Bo Burnham Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The average person has one Fallopian tube.”

“At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.”

“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.”

“My career was exploding at the same time that social media itself was expanding. But when my online videos were taking off, I didn't think, 'Oh, great! I'm going to be able to parlay this into a career!' I just wanted to be a comedian. I just wanted to perform live.”

“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.”

“I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer theater. I eventually put them online and started getting this little following.”

“Postmodern comedy doesn't work well with very old audiences, because it's making fun of the comedy they enjoy.”

“I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.”

“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.”

“I think comedy has a range, with multiple peaks in different areas. It's like trying to compare Beethoven and the Beatles. Sometimes I hear from people, 'I think you try too hard in your comedy.' And that's what I worry about.”