Bo Burnham Comedy Quotations

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.

For me, comedy is constantly presented as this fake casualness, like a guy just walked on stage going, 'This crazy thing happened to me the other day.' And he's in front of 3000 people, and he's acting like an everyman, and he's getting paid so much money.

I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.

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

Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don't.

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.

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.

Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.

When I tried to hit puberty I swung and I missed.