shakespeare Bo Burnham

We've been doing a lot of laughing, which is good, uh, for a comedy show on a comedy CD, but what we haven't been doing is a lot of thinking, and I'd like to do that now.

I've written some haikus. Haikus are Japanese poems consisting of 17 syllables, three lines - five, seven, five - and I find them to have a certain philosophical construct. There's a certain, uh, soundness in their simplicity, a clearness in their cogency if you will.

So hopefully what we'll do right now is read these haikus, think for a bit, and then when we go back, uh, to the, you know, the jokes and the laughing, they'll have benefited, uh, from the time we took to think. So um, you guys just sit back and indulge me and just think for a bit, and then we'll go back to the jokes. Uh, can I get some blue light to set the mood?

Perfect.

For those of you listening on CD, the lights didn't change which made it funny.

I saw a rainbow
On the day my grandma died
Fuckin' lesbian
(*Ding*)

For fifteen cents a day
You can feed an African
They eat pennies
(*Ding*)

Old peoples' skin sags
Because it's being pulled towards
The underworld
(*Ding*)

"Do unto others
As you would have them do to you"
Said the rapist
(*Ding*)

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