Bo Burnham Quotes

You can parody almost anything.

Everything can be satirized.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear.

People say the comedy is so shocking, but if you read newspapers or look around generally - I mean, obviously I'm not writing about all the lovely things that there are, which I do see as well - but there is a lot of outrageousness around, slightly covered up. And obviously, it's fun to take that a little bit further.

The whole character of Super Dave is a takeoff on people who pontificate. So one thing I never want to do is pontificate why this works, why this is funny. I have no idea what the appeal is. All we are trying to do is make people have a good time and laugh.

There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.

I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.