A biography for Bo Burnhamhasn’t been written yet.
“I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone's watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.”
“I just have a problem with youth culture.”
“I'm just a giddy teenager who would like to break into show business any way I can.”
“I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.”
“At the time of 'Words, Words, Words,' I'm a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he's entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that's inherently a little bit ridiculous.”
“Basically, I don't like to tweet stuff about my life. I only like to tweet jokes.”
“I have no real want or need to be a movie star.”
“Postmodern comedy doesn't work well with very old audiences, because it's making fun of the comedy they enjoy.”
“I'd much rather wait till my material is up to par, in my opinion, than rush it just so I can stay in the limelight a little longer.”
“I didn't want to bash young people. I don't want to bash a kid for dreaming or wanting something or being slightly ambitious - that's not the problem. The actual problem is with the culture surrounding him.”
“I don't want you to think I'm better than people or that I know better than people.”
“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 like the idea of conceiving a show and putting on a show, and especially when I got to the place where I could play theaters.”
“For me, the only value a celebrity has, or any artist or actor or anything, is the things that they make, you know?”