Bo Burnham's work combines elements of filmmaking with comedy genres such as music, sketch, and stand-up, often with a dramatic or tragic twist.
30 Facts About Bo Burnham
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Bo Burnham then announced a career shift away from comedy in 2016, before making his filmmaking debut as the writer and director of the critically acclaimed drama film Eighth Grade.
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Bo Burnham has directed other comedians' comedy specials, and co-starred in the Academy Award-winning comedy-thriller film Promising Young Woman.
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Bo Burnham created and starred in his fourth special, Inside, without a crew or audience during the COVID-19 pandemic; it was released by Netflix to widespread acclaim and was nominated in six categories at the 73rd Emmy Awards, winning Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special, Outstanding Music Direction, and Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special.
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Robert Pickering Bo Burnham was born in Hamilton, Massachusetts, on August 21,1990, the son of hospice nurse Patricia and construction company owner Scott Bo Burnham.
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Bo Burnham has an older sister named Samm and an older brother named Pete, both of whom work for their father's construction company.
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Bo Burnham was raised Catholic and attended St John's Preparatory School in Danvers, Massachusetts, where he received a free education due to his mother working as the school's nurse at the time.
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Bo Burnham graduated in 2008, having been on the honor roll and involved in theater and the campus ministry program.
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Bo Burnham was accepted into the New York University Tisch School of the Arts to study experimental theatre, but deferred his admission for a year to pursue a career in comedy and eventually never attended.
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Bo Burnham describes his on-stage persona as a "more arrogant, stuck-up version [of] himself".
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Bo Burnham recorded a performance in London for Comedy Central's The World Stands Up in January 2008, making him the youngest person to do so at the age of 17, and signed a four-record deal with Comedy Central Records.
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Burnham's first full album, the self-titled Bo Burnham, was released on March 10,2009.
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Bo Burnham has performed his music in the United States, including Cobb's Comedy Club, YouTube Live in San Francisco, and Caroline's Comedy Club in New York City, and internationally in London and Montreal.
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On May 21,2010, Bo Burnham taped his first one-hour stand-up special, entitled Words Words Words, for Comedy Central from the House of Blues in Boston as part of the network's new "House of Comedy" series of stand-up specials; it aired on Comedy Central on October 16,2010, and was released for purchase two days later.
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Bo Burnham finished in first place at the 2011 Comedy Central Stand-up Showdown.
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In 2013, Bo Burnham wrote, executive-produced, and starred in Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous alongside Dan Lagana, Luke Liacos, and Dave Becky.
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Bo Burnham released a book of poetry called Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone.
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Bo Burnham wrote and directed his first feature film, Eighth Grade, which was produced and distributed by A24 and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2018.
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Bo Burnham directed Jerrod Carmichael's comedy special 8 for HBO and Chris Rock's comedy special Tamborine for Netflix.
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In 2019, it was announced Bo Burnham would contribute songs to the upcoming Sesame Street film.
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In 2020, Bo Burnham played the protagonist's love interest Ryan Cooper in the black comedy revenge thriller film Promising Young Woman.
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In March 2021, Bo Burnham was cast as Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty from HBO.
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Bo Burnham received two nominations at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Music Film and Best Song Written for Visual Media, although the special was ruled ineligible for Best Comedy Album.
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Bo Burnham directed, edited, and executive produced Carmichael's comedy special Rothaniel, which received acclaim, including the 74th Emmy award for best writing for a variety special.
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On May 30,2022, the one-year anniversary of Inside, Bo Burnham released 63 minutes of unseen footage from the special on YouTube.
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Bo Burnham released Inside, an album containing all of the songs from Inside and the outtakes, as well as all of the ambient and instrumental tracks from the special and its outtakes.
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Bo Burnham has reportedly submitted "Five Years" from The Inside Outtakes to the 2023 Grammys' visual-media song category.
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Bo Burnham has cited Kate Berlant, Catherine Breillat, George Carlin, John Cassavetes, Flight of the Conchords, Mitch Hedberg, Anthony Jeselnik, Stephen Lynch, Demetri Martin, Steve Martin, Tim Minchin, and Hans Teeuwen as influences.
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Bo Burnham named Steve Martin as the most important of these.
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Bo Burnham is known to be a private person and rarely gives interviews unless he has a project to promote.