Quotes from Bo Burnham

Uncharted territory is a good place to be in.

I write about what I know: teenage dating, overly charged sexuality, all the things that make you uncomfortable.

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.

Squaring numbers are just like women. If they're under thirteen, just do them in your head.

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

Women are like fingers and toes because they're easy to count on.

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

For some comedians it feels so cool to be like: 'I'll say anything, man!'. I'm not quite there yet.

I misdirect the audience, so they have no idea where they are or who they're listening to.

I know I'm probably digging for fresh fruit in the garbage, and as much as anyone, my attitude is, if stuff's sincere, it's gooey and boring and uninteresting. But it's no way to live.

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?

At one point when I was very young, when I was first starting out, I thought, 'Well, one day I'll be able to put all the music away and become a real comedian.' But then I realized there are amazing musical comedians out there, that musical comedy is probably something I'll always want to pursue.

The thing is, I always thought I could do stand-up, and so I just stayed focused on the belief that I could succeed.

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.

The unlimited amount of information that I have access to has also given me an unlimited threshold for how I need to be stimulated.

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.

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.

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

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.

For me, the only value a celebrity has, or any artist or actor or anything, is the things that they make, you know?

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.

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.

Laughter is the best medicine, y'know, besides medicine.

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.