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I'm Bo Burnham.
Take it as it is.
Digest it.
Welcome to whatever this is.
Robert Pickering Bo Burnham
was born on the 21st of August 1990
in Hamilton, Massachusetts.
His career began on YouTube in 2006
writing and performing songs in his bedroom.
Burnham has described his output at the time
as pubescent musical comedy,
but it obviously resonated with his audience.
His first upload, My Whole Family, now has 11 million views.
Soak it in, then...
use it as you will.
It's a precursor to what would follow 15 years later with Inside.
Personal songs that take a satirical swipe at society,
all composed, filmed and recorded by Burnham.
Keep watching, 'cause there's a lot more content where that came from.
His breakaway social media success lead to a performance in London
for Comedy Central's The World Stands Up
in January 2008.
Aged just 18, he was the youngest person ever to do so.
He signed a four-year deal with Comedy Central Records
the same year, and his first EP,
Bo fo Sho, was released online in June 2008.
His first full album, entitled Bo Burnham,
was released in March 2009.
...better you're not Don't need a sweater, I'm hot
If I can't think of another rhyme Then I ought... to think of one
It was around this time
that Burnham also came to the attention of
40-Year-Old Virgin director, Judd Apatow.
The two worked together writing a project they considered to be
the anti High School Musical,
which, sadly, never materialized.
In 2010, he taped his first stand-up special
Words Words Words for Comedy Central.
A one-hour performance that shares its name
with the accompanying album.
Bo followed it up with a small role in 2011's Hall Pass,
by the Farrelly brothers, in which he played a bartender.
And in 2012, he co-starred as Tony in Adventures in the Sin Bin,
a comedy about a virgin who lends his van
to his more romantically ambitious friends.
Think The Apartment but with more fighting and cheerleaders.
I'm not...
judging you.
In 2013, he wrote, executive produced and starred in
Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous,
an MTV comedy series about a teenager
who decides to pursue a life of fame and stardom
instead of attending college.
The show lasted one season but Bo's performance,
as well as the show's portrayal of one man's walk
to all-encompassing desire for fame
did garner praise.
And the same year, he recorded his second comedy special
What which launched on Netflix and YouTube simultaneously.
This first song... is called...
A World on Fire.
After that, Bo starts popping up everywhere.
In 2014, he featured in Parks and Rec episode
Flu Season 2 in which he was perfectly cast as Chipp McCapp -
a 17-year-old country music superstar
whose output focuses exclusively on pickup trucks,
his mom and the troops.
Cheese on top or no one gets paid.
You got it, Chipp.
That's my dad. God, he's such an idiot.
In 2015, he featured in this Key and Peele sketch
about an a cappella group,
the same year he appeared in the Kroll Show as Diz -
an aggressive, foul-mouthed hooligan.
Onto 2016, and we get another comedy special,
this time exclusively for Netflix.
Make Happy is a recording
of a meticulously choreographed live show
on the nature of performance that features misdirection,
prickly audience interaction and, of course,
some absurdly good songs.
Let's see the show, yo Let's get this show started, OK
One, two , three, four
So I was at the dentist the other day...
It was critically-acclaimed with some reviewers describing it
as the best comedy special Netflix has ever produced.
Bo provided the voice of Andrew Bangs in Cartoon Network's
We Bare Bears in 2016.
I'm surprised you showed up with your sad excuse of an entourage.
And more voice work followed in 2017
when Bo provided the voice of Sergiu
in Comrade Detective episode The Invisible Hand.
Burnham then directed and produced
Jerrod Carmichael comedy special 8 for HBO
and had minor roles in two other films in the same year,
as stand-up comic CJ
in Kumail Nanjiani comedy The Big Sick
and as Toby in Lucia Aniello's Rough Night -
a black comedy about a bachelorette party that goes horribly wrong,
starring Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon and Zoë Kravitz.
You're doing so good.
But somehow, even greater things were yet to come.
In 2018, Bo wrote and directed Eighth Grade,
an unflinching coming-of-age comedy drama
that examines what it's like growing up with anxiety
in the age of social media.
The film was released to critical acclaim,
and Elsie Fisher's breakout performance as struggling teen
and would-be YouTube self-help guru Kayla
is as compelling as it is heartbreaking.
By the way, I like your shirt a lot. It's, like, so cool.
Burnham also directed Chris Rock comedy special Tamborine
in 2018.
In 2020, Burnham received best supporting actor nomination
for his role in Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman,
an Oscar-nominated black comedy starring Carey Mulligan as Cassie -
a 30-year-old medical school dropout
on a quest for revenge.
Bo plays Ryan, Cassie's love interest,
a man with unconventional taste in coffee.
Thank you.
And that brings us bang up to date with 2021's Inside.
A brilliant, introspective and challenging comedy special
about a year spent trying to be creative in lockdown.
Burnham wrote, directed, performed
and filmed the entire thing himself.
And it's worth watching just so you can sit there
and ponder how one man can do so much stuff on his own.
Do you have a favorite Bo Burnham performance?
Let us know in the comments below.
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Play us out, Bo,
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