Bo Burnham Quotes

To me, the trick is not how can I make people laugh. It is, how can I make people laugh in a different way.

Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.

I love to make people laugh, and do things that are surprising and different.

The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that's new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.

We started gearing our content more to what makes us laugh and stories we wanted to tell, and we had to decide, early on, to not be precious about it.

Comedy can be a lot more fun if you try something unique.

Comedy always benefits from different points of view and even tension. It can never be satisfied.

I never write jokes, I just try to make myself laugh.

I'm still doing me. I try to come up with different concept for my shows, you gotta keep the people interested, but I'm still me.

I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.

I was hoping for 13 episodes that my friends would like. It’s a good lesson, isn’t it? If you do something trying to make your friends laugh and that you can be proud of, you can also be successful.

I like showing different types of comedy - showing that I could tell a story, or showing that I could do a one-liner, showing I could do stuff about music - so just trying to be versatile and talking about different topics.

What I try to do is always get the newest, funniest people in anything.

While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.

Funny is funny, and it can come in 8 billion different shades and flavors, so I think it's silly to kind of limit it.

I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.

In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.