Robert Pickering “Bo” Burnham is an American comedian, musician, actor, filmmaker and poet. Profoundly inspirational Bo Burnham quotes and jokes will fire up your brain and inspire you to look at life differently while making you laugh.
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Famous Bo Burnham Quotes
I would say don’t take advice from people like me who have gotten very lucky. We’re very biased. You know, like Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams is like a lottery winner telling you, Liquidize your assets; buy Powerball tickets it works! Bo Burnham
Quotes are for dumb people who can’t think of something intelligent to say on their own. Bo Burnham
I’m grateful for every stupid mistake and dumb joke I tried to make. Bo Burnham
I’ve always liked the format of YouTube, sharing things for free, which is a nice exchange between people. Bo Burnham
The Internet is so crazy, and you’re exposed to so many things. In an hour, you can really jump around. Bo Burnham
What’s important is that you stay true to yourself. Because when you enter the real world, the most valuable thing you can bring is all your you ness. The world doesn’t need any more hot chicks or tough guys or smooth talkers the world needs more you. And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Bo Burnham
I think I wear my hypocrisy on my sleeve. I would never say I’m not a complete hypocrite. Bo Burnham
You got to take a deep breath and give up. The system is rigged against you. Bo Burnham
I don’t want you to think I’m better than people or that I know better than people. Bo Burnham
Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine. Bo Burnham
I love Tim Minchin, Bill Bailey, and Hans Teeuwen, and I’m trying to synthesise elements of theatre into my show a little bit more. Bo Burnham
I’m grateful for every stupid mistake and dumb joke I tried to make. Bo Burnham
Life, to me, doesn’t feel like a straightforward story; it doesn’t make sense for me to get up there and just tell a story. Life feels like what my show feels like chaotic and strange and disconnected. Bo Burnham
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self worth. Bo Burnham
I’ve kind of stopped valuing laughter as the end all measurement of what I’m doing. Bo Burnham
I would say don’t take advice from people like me who have gotten very lucky. Bo Burnham
I really like maths. Bo Burnham
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. Bo Burnham
Even in movies like Superbad, they’re all lovable kids. Bo Burnham
Uncharted territory is a good place to be in. Bo Burnham
Comedy should be a source of positivity. I don’t want to bully people, and I don’t want people to come to my show to feel terrible about something. So I’m actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn’t say. Bo Burnham
I just like to write and then perform. Bo Burnham
I don’t interact with people much. Bo Burnham
I stopped and I thought, What would Jesus do? So I didn’t exist. Bo Burnham
It feels like we’re always juggling many pieces of information at once or trying out many personas at once. It makes life slightly nonlinear. Bo Burnham
There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind. Bo Burnham
I just have a problem with youth culture. Bo Burnham
A few people know me, and the few people that do know me only know me because they dig my stuff. Bo Burnham
For me, the only value a celebrity has, or any artist or actor or anything, is the things that they make, you know? Bo Burnham
When I tried to hit puberty I swung and I missed. Bo Burnham
Music is really, really mathematical. Bo Burnham
If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land? Bo Burnham
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. Bo Burnham
What’s a pirate minus the ship? Just a creative homeless guy. Bo Burnham
I don’t worship comedy; at the end of the day, I don’t fall to the altar of comedy unquestioningly. Bo Burnham
The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they’re famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous. Bo Burnham
The strange thing was, when I was starting on YouTube, even the paradigm of YouTube and Internet sensation or whatever that didn’t really exist. So I didn’t even know that that was a thing. Bo Burnham
Being famous is complete luck, and that’s something you can’t bank on. Bo Burnham
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self worth. Bo Burnham
In the distance, Bo saw a fairy. A fairy so beautiful that he felt proud of being called one in high school. Bo Burnham
I fully embrace myself as a hypocrite. Bo Burnham
I chose to do comedy instead of going to college. Bo Burnham
I like to joke about being gay because it’s something teenagers would never joke about. Bo Burnham
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. Bo Burnham
I do weird things, and people watch. Bo Burnham
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. Bo Burnham
I became good friends with Jack Whitehall. I think he’s great, such a great dude, and really funny. Bo Burnham
I remember being super young, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, Man, I wonder what famous people eat for breakfast. They must have some special kind of cereal! My mind was so warped by the idea of fame. Bo Burnham
Don’t worry, I’m hilarious. Bo Burnham
Roses are grey, Violets are a different shade of grey, Let’s go chase cars! Bo Burnham
Your hard work and talent will not pay off. Bo Burnham
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. Bo Burnham
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. Bo Burnham
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 Burnham
You can give poor people this royal wedding to watch and make them feel good about themselves, or you can give them something useful like, I don’t know a toaster. Bo Burnham
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. Bo Burnham
I really like The Beatles. Bo Burnham
I misdirect the audience, so they have no idea where they are or who they’re listening to. Bo Burnham
There’s tons of dudes like David O’Doherty, Tim Key, and Alex Horne I made a lot of friends with people who are really incredible comics. Bo Burnham
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. Bo Burnham
When life gets you down, make a comforter! Bo Burnham
Basically, I don’t like to tweet stuff about my life. I only like to tweet jokes. Bo Burnham
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. Bo Burnham
I just look at Miley Cyrus, and I’m like, Great, you’ve doubled your audience. But you’ve also doubled the number of people that hate you, and doesn’t that hurt? It takes a crazy person not to be affected by that. Bo Burnham
No one entertains the thought that maybe God does not believe in you. Bo Burnham
I always wanted to be a comedian but never thought I’d be a musical comedian. Bo Burnham
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. Bo Burnham
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. Bo Burnham
If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I’d still say no. Bo Burnham
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. Bo Burnham
Most of my songs make fun of myself. Bo Burnham
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 Burnham
I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don’t have the nerve for it, I’m too anxious. I don’t know how you’re not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they’re real people, you know? Bo Burnham
I misdirect the audience, so they have no idea where they are or who they’re listening to. Bo Burnham
When life gives you lemons, you probably just found lemons. Bo Burnham
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. Bo Burnham
What’s important is that you stay true to yourself. Because when you enter the real world, the most valuable thing you can bring is all your you ness. The world doesn’t need any more hot chicks or tough guys or smooth talkers the world needs more you. And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Bo Burnham
I have no real want or need to be a movie star. Bo Burnham
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. Bo Burnham
I’m very left brain. Bo Burnham
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self worth. Bo Burnham
I think the love hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone’s watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it. Bo Burnham
I stopped and I thought, What would Jesus do? So I didn’t exist. Bo Burnham
You got to take a deep breath and give up. The system is rigged against you. Bo Burnham
If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land? Bo Burnham
My success, literally, is your success figuratively. Bo Burnham
Squaring numbers are just like women. If they’re under thirteen, just do them in your head. Bo Burnham
The average person has one Fallopian tube. Bo Burnham
What do you call a kid with no arms and an eyepatch? Names. Bo Burnham
Uncharted territory is a good place to be in. Bo Burnham
Maybe life on earth could be heaven, doesn’t just the thought of it make it worth a try? Bo Burnham
I like to call everyone that I find slightly annoying a sociopath. Bo Burnham
If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I’d still say no. Bo Burnham
I don’t want to put meaning on what I do because I don’t know what it is. Bo Burnham
How old is too old to stop believing in, like, the tooth fairy? Like 12? I’ve got a cousin who is 18. Yeah, still believes in gay marriage. Bo Burnham
Being famous is complete luck, and that’s something you can’t bank on. Bo Burnham
Where are all the sour patch parents? Bo Burnham
I have a show on MTV called Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous. I think that’s a secret to a vast majority of America. Bo Burnham
All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath o lick my balls. Bo Burnham
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. Bo Burnham
I don’t need anything as long as I have my family, friends, millions of dollars, unlimited pussy. Bo Burnham
I think because of the Internet I was able to study comedy from quite a young age and watch a lot of comedy. Bo Burnham
No one entertains the thought that maybe God does not believe in you. Bo Burnham
I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don’t have the nerve for it, I’m too anxious. I don’t know how you’re not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they’re real people, you know? You can convince yourself that they don’t really know you, and that’s true, but how can it not hurt your feelings? Bo Burnham
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. Bo Burnham
I don’t really care about capitalizing on momentum. Bo Burnham
Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make. Bo Burnham
Please don’t stick with me if I start sucking. Bo Burnham
Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist. Bo Burnham
Postmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy. Bo Burnham
I actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost my virginity. Bo Burnham
A few people know me, and the few people that do know me only know me because they dig my stuff. Bo Burnham
I like to call everyone that I find slightly annoying a sociopath. Bo Burnham
Everyone in my family is very supportive, and any mention of family in my show is just, in my idea, the funniest version of the family of the guy of who’s performing. Bo Burnham
We’re having a traditional Thanksgiving turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc. Bo Burnham
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. Bo Burnham
In the distance, Bo saw a fairy. A fairy so beautiful that he felt proud of being called one in highschool. Bo Burnham
I’m not as incredibly prolific as Louis C. K., and I’m definitely not doing a completely brand new hour probably by the beginning of the tour. Bo Burnham
Is there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book. Bo Burnham
I’ve always liked the format of YouTube, sharing things for free, which is a nice exchange between people. Bo Burnham
