In addition to the live performance, the album includes two studio tracks- the singles "Words Words Words", and "Oh Bo". By highlighting the construction of his film, Burnham dramatizes an addiction to the curation and distortion of life into a digital husk. The voluble praise about Inside’s relatability hinges on the elision of Burnham’s privilege, even as the comedian himself tries to acknowledge it. It’s highly alliterative and uses a number of other sound devices to comment on human nature and society’s ills. Judd Apatow was an early champion of the young comedian, and Bo taped his first Comedy Central special at age 18, the youngest in history.

I’ve been eyeing this particular collection for awhile now and after having read it, I feel mad at myself for taking so long to pick it up. He confronts his past and offensive jokes in the song “Problematic,” begging God and the audience for forgiveness.In EGGHEAD, Bo brings his brand of brainy, emotional comedy to the page in the form of off-kilter poems, thoughts, and more. Marjorie Worthington, The Story of “Me”: Contemporary American Autofiction (University of Nebraska Press, 2018), p.

It is possible to draw a line from David Foster Wallace to Ben Lerner to Bo Burnham: white men who explore the fraying and fragmenting effects of late capitalism and its online infrastructures. Bo Burnham was a teenager living in his parents' attic in Massachusetts when he started posting funny songs to YouTube that immediately turned heads with their wise satire that belied his very young age. But if Inside is autofiction, the dramatic fictionalization of the special’s real conditions of production poses a serious problem. Bo Burnham was a teenager living in his parents' attic in Massachusetts when he started posting funny songs to YouTube.Bo taped his first of two Comedy Central specials four days after his 18th birthday, making him the youngest to do so in the channel's history. In addition to six Emmy nominations, it seems Inside might win an award for most hyperbolic critical response. He captures the weirdness of things like Instagram and sexting and YouTube and Twitch streaming, as well as the horrific impacts of white supremacy and climate change and Jeff Bezos.