Instead of a live performance, he's recorded himself in isolation over the course of a year. The result, a special titled 'Inside,' shows all of Burnham's brilliant instincts of parody and meta-commentary on the role of white, male entertainers in the world and of poisons found in internet culture - that digital space that gave him a career and fostered a damaging anxiety disorder that led him to quit performing live comedy after 2015.īut now Burnham is back. He uploaded it to YouTube, a then barely-known website that offered an easy way for people to share videos, so he could send it to his brother.īurnham had no idea that his song would be seen more than 10 million times, nor that it would kick start his career in a niche brand of self-aware musical comedy.įifteen years later, Burnham found himself sheltering in place during the COVID-19 pandemic and decided to sit back down at his piano and see if he could once again entertain the world from the claustrophobic confines of a single room.

Bo Burnham on stage for the Netflix special taping of his live show 'Make Happy.'īurnham was just 16 years old when he wrote a parody song ( 'My Whole Family.') and filmed himself performing it in his bedroom.

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