Bo Burnham Quotes

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

When I was younger I always thought, 'If I were ever a comedian I'd make it like a rock concert.' I wanted to generate that type of enthusiasm and excitement.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

I have this fantasy of relaxing and doing nothing. But I'm obviously very passionate about stand-up comedy. I mean, I keep doing it. So I must be really into it.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

I gravitated toward stand-up because there's no overhead. I mean, literally, there's no overhead: Often, you're outdoors performing in front of groups of people.

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.

Comedy is very difficult. I love it because when you do it right, it's the best feeling in the world.

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.

My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.

My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.