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.
Bo BurnhamThe strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever.
Bo BurnhamI know it's the comedian's instinct to say, "Do it, man, nothing's off-limits! It's cool, bro!" I don't know if that's the answer for me. "Do I really want to make a joke about a miscarriage when a woman in the audience might have had one?" I don't worship comedy; at the end of the day I don't fall to the altar of comedy unquestioningly.
Bo Burnham