Bo Burnham
You can give poor people this royal wedding to watch and make them feel good about themselves, or you can give them something useful like, I don't know... a toaster.Collection: Wedding
I would say don't take advice from people like me who have gotten very lucky. We're very biased. You know, like Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams is like a lottery winner telling you, 'Liquidize your assets; buy Powerball tickets - it works!'Collection: Dreams
I write about what I know: teenage dating, overly charged sexuality, all the things that make you uncomfortable.Collection: Dating
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.Collection: Famous
I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm too anxious. I don't know how you're not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they're real people, you know? You can convince yourself that they don't really know you, and that's true, but how can it not hurt your feelings?Collection: Famous
Being famous is complete luck, and that's something you can't bank on.Collection: Famous
My success, literally, is your success figuratively.Collection: Success
I was definitely not the kid that just wanted to be famous for no reason whatsoever and then happened to find comedy. Fame and all that stuff have always been slightly terrifying to me, and it makes me very anxious.Collection: Famous
You got to take a deep breath and give up. The system is rigged against you.
Uncharted territory is a good place to be in.
I'm grateful for every stupid mistake and dumb joke I tried to make.
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
I like to joke about being gay because it's something teenagers would never joke about.
I'd love to do something that doesn't have my stupid face in front of it. I feel like I've exhausted what I can do with my own face.
Even in movies like 'Superbad,' they're all lovable kids.
I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone's watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.
The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous.
The average person has one Fallopian tube.
A few people know me, and the few people that do know me only know me because they dig my stuff.
I don't want to put meaning on what I do because I don't know what it is.
I'm not as incredibly prolific as Louis C. K., and I'm definitely not doing a completely brand-new hour probably by the beginning of the tour.
I grew up listening to Steve Martin and Robin Williams, so I didn't ever intend to be a musical comedian. I sort of stumbled into it.
Please don't stick with me if I start sucking.
There's tons of dudes - like David O'Doherty, Tim Key, and Alex Horne - I made a lot of friends with people who are really incredible comics.
Your hard work and talent will not pay off.
In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in - and I never went.
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.
I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer theater. I eventually put them online and started getting this little following.
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?
I love Tim Minchin, Bill Bailey, and Hans Teeuwen, and I'm trying to synthesise elements of theatre into my show a little bit more.
I think because of the Internet I was able to study comedy from quite a young age and watch a lot of comedy.
'what.' is bombastic introspection. It's large, colourful, and loud but hopefully intimate at the same time.
I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.
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.
I just look at Miley Cyrus, and I'm like, 'Great, you've doubled your audience. But you've also doubled the number of people that hate you, and doesn't that hurt?' It takes a crazy person not to be affected by that.
Don't worry, I'm hilarious.
I just like to write and then perform.
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.
I've always liked TV shows that have slightly unlikable leads, where you root for them in spite of a lot of things. I know it's not common with shows with young people; they have to be so likable. But, I mean, teenagers just generally aren't very likable. I know I wasn't as a teenager.
I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.
I don't mind having 16-year-old fans, but I hate just having 16-year-old fans. I want more diversity.
I do weird things, and people watch.
I think I wear my hypocrisy on my sleeve. I would never say I'm not a complete hypocrite.
I fully embrace myself as a hypocrite.
When I see someone filming me, I don't usually think, 'No, man, don't put this up online!' I'd think, 'Hey man, you don't get to go to shows very often, put down the camera and enjoy it!' I love going to theatre and to shows so much.
I like to call everyone that I find slightly annoying a 'sociopath.'
I'm just a giddy teenager who would like to break into show business any way I can.
I really don't like to tweet or Instagram anything about the people in my life just because I feel like I signed up for this, and I don't even know what this is yet. I do know that it could go anywhere, and I really don't want to sign other people in my life up for it without their permission or consent.
I don't want you to think I'm better than people or that I know better than people.
For me, the only value a celebrity has, or any artist or actor or anything, is the things that they make, you know?