I 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 BurnhamFor 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 BurnhamOnce a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
Bo Burnham