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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'm left-brained, so I'm all about a mathematical approach to language. I've always been interested in that.
Postmodern comedy doesn't work well with very old audiences, because it's making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
The thing is, I was on YouTube like the golden era, I think. Before ads came in, it was really cool back then.
I write about what I know: teenage dating, overly charged sexuality, all the things that make you uncomfortable.
I'm happy with what I'm doing. I try not to focus on how I've changed. I just try to focus on what I'm doing now.
It's all about surprising people, and you're not surprising people if you're making them laugh every five seconds.
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
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.
The thing is, I always thought I could do stand-up, and so I just stayed focused on the belief that I could succeed.
I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.
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.
With 'Words, Words, Words,' that show was me experimenting with something, and then there was a clear direction for me.
I'm a stand up comic and I always sit and slouch, and I got my girlfriend pregnant on my sterile uncles pull-out couch.
We're having a traditional Thanksgiving - turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc.
My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.
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.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I'm thankful for all of you. I am not thankful for the pilgrims. Buckles should never be on hats.
I'm friends with a lot of comedians, but we don't talk about material. Most comedians I know don't watch a lot of other comedy.
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.
There's only one rule in stand-up, which is that you have to be funny. Yet 99 per cent of comics look and talk exactly the same.
People ask me all the time, ALL the time, they say the same exact thing. They say, 'Bo, you're an artist... how do we fix Africa?'
I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don't want to construct the show to prove something.
The quality of the work when I was 16... I've had my issues with it, but I've learned to forgive myself because I was 16 years old.
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.
The unlimited amount of information that I have access to has also given me an unlimited threshold for how I need to be stimulated.
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.
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.
The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever.
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.
I always loved bands who would try to change their sound radically album to album, experiment in one album and revert back in another.
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 don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
I think the comedy clubs tend to homogenize the acts a little bit, because they force them to be palatable in way too many environments.
I just try to do things on stage that I think the audience would enjoy. And I try to draw on and add to acts that I've enjoyed watching.
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?
How old is too old to stop believing in, like, the tooth fairy? Like 12? I've got a cousin who is 18... Yeah, still believes in gay marriage.
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.
My whole family thinks I'm gay, I guess it's always been that way. Maybe it's 'cause of the way that I walk, Makes them think I like... boys.
It feels like we're always juggling many pieces of information at once or trying out many personas at once. It makes life slightly nonlinear.
My first concern is that when you go to a show, you should be present. It's much more exciting to put the camera down and lose yourself in it.
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.
Since I got an audience before I even had a comic voice, my material that really wasn't worthy of an audience somehow got it, slightly unfairly.
All my fans saw me as some little kid who can't even afford new jeans in his room, so they'll support me. That'll work until I become a success.
I love you just the way you are but you don't see you like I do. You shouldn't try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you.
People do complain about the way I act on stage... They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.
I've found nothing but support and generosity from older comics. I think comedians are a lot nicer than the stigma is, at least from my experience.
If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there's a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.
I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone's watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.