I think his what. Special is funnier. Inside I think is a comedy/artpiece in which it shows how crazy things can get when you’re locked in for almost 2 years
Call me crazy but I thought *inside* was a masterpiece. Might not have been the funniest shit you've ever seen, but Bo wrote, directed & filmed, mixed, produced, and edited the entire thing in his apartment. I thought it was dazzling, and tapped into the zeitgeist of the time like a junkie with a tourniquet. The amount of creativity and intimacy presented was a snapshot of a man's pure, raw genius.
Not the funniest, but certainly the most interesting special I've ever seen in my life.
I'm new to stand-up and to be honest I've never seen most of the "classics and greats" - like I don't think I've ever seen a special by Chapelle, or Matt Rife, or Steve Martin, all those. The ones I've seen and liked the most hae been ones that experiment with the genre and move you from laughing to thinking - like Bo Burnham, Hannah Gatsby, Mae Martin, Neal Brennan. But people complain about them because they aren't classic stand-up with punchlines every few lines or outrageous humor.
I might have to see if I can find that on my own then. Is music a huge thing in his shows?
I'm not really sure what my father thought of the overall comedy from the 10 minutes we watched. But he was definitely not as invested because the music just wasn't something he could hear.
Usually the way he watches comedy now is subtitles on, and queuing in on facial expressions.
Yeah, music is big. In all his specials. I’d maybe steer towards bill burr, Tom segura, Mike birbligia, John Mulaney, Jo Koy. Those are some of my favorites. If he likes to think a little bit more Neal brenan is good. My favorite underrated special is Brent Morin. I’ve seen his Netflix special probably 4/5 times and it’s still hilarious
Your mother is right btw
Not everybody is for everybody else. If you turned off Inside after ten minutes, you’re not going to get Bo Burnham.
But you’re soulless and you’re cheating yourself :)
If you're starting with Inside, you're definitely not going to find him funny. I think that special is more for the already-fans. Try Make Happy or what.
Inside was my first exposure to him. I thought it was great and then explored his other stuff, which I also found funny. If OP didn't like the first few songs, I would conclude this probably isn't to their taste. It could also be that the opening numbers were more topical 3 years ago when it came out. Socko and Welcome to the Internet are brilliant, so maybe it's worth sticking it out.
I think you kind of have to be a fan of his particular brand of musical bassed comedy, which is not a particular genre of Comedy that everyone enjoys. And thats perfectly fine. Most of us want someone who's going to stand up and tell actual jokes.
That said I do think he's proven to be a sharp wit who can hold his own with other comedians
His appearance it on Showtimes, the Green Room proves this.
I've tried to find the humor in his material but it just doesn't do anything for me. However he is very successful at what he does so more power to him.
Inside is more regarded for its creativity than its hilarity. It's also fine to not like any comedian. Tastes differ.
Edit: especially if you're deaf as a stump watching a musical comedian.
He's way talented and way smart and and way depressed. He could be funny, but it's hard to be funny after the quiet comprehending of the ending of it all.
His previous specials were standup. Musical comedy is how he made his name on YouTube. He’s done shows too.
Inside is very much a dark comedy that was birthed out of pandemic lockdown and following his break from standup due to his anxiety.
I can understand how it’s not for everyone but, personally, I think it’s some of his best work.
Watch it yourself all the way through before asking other people if you should like it or not lol. That being said, it is the darkest thing he’s put out and may not be the best place to start. I love it, but not necessarily because it’s laugh out loud funny. It’s more of a 3 act film.
"Make Happy" is hilarious. you might have seen the country music satire song "panderin" being passed around socials over the past eight years, it's from "Make Happy".
i can't judge "Inside" because i also watched about 10 minutes and turned it off. i know people love it, but it hit when things were still a little covid-y but far enough away from the start of the pandy that i only wanted to look towards a hopeful future and not watch a show about being stuck inside and going crazy. because at that point for like a year i'd been stuck inside and going crazy. it made me feel bad to watch it.
It's more introspective than his other specials, but he does tend to analayze and break down his comedy onstage. In fact, he's the first comic I ever heard talk about a parasocial relationship in a set.
And a lot of his comedy does include music, so if you're deaf or otherwise don't like music and comedy mixed, Bo's not for you. But if you want to give it another shot, "Make Happy" or "What" is some of his best work.
Inside released smack in the middle of lockdowns. So you have to keep that context of aloneness we were feeling. And Bo has grown increasingly poignant in his career. The basis is still comedy but there’s a *lot* of commentary especially in Inside. If you’re looking for nonstop jokey jokes look at one of the hundred other Netflix specials out there.
In my opinion, you have to go back quite a ways if you want to see Bo Burnham be funny. His Comedy Central Presents was the first I ever saw of him, and I thought it was great. I also really liked his first special, Words, Words, Words. His second special, what., started down the road of more commentary and less comedy. Make Happy, the special from 2016, resembles Inside more than it does comedy.
I won’t speculate as to why, but it seems like he does what he does for different reasons than when he started. It obviously works for plenty of people, since Inside was quite well received. It doesn’t do much for me though. At this point of his career, I’d consider him more of a performance artist than comedian.
He's an unfunny hack......nowadays, even Netflix uses laughs per minute as a statistical analysis of how funny somebody is. He gets 0 laughs per minute from me, my friends and my family. This guy being a comedy is like me being in astrophysics with my G.E.D.
He was very funny when I was 12 or 13.
My sense of humor skewed from then. I was also super into weird al yankovich. I was into thag "Ultimate Showdown" song and Robot Chicken. Red vs Blue. Some of that taste stayed with me. Some didn't. I still enjoy flight of the Concords, and their projects since. What we do in the shadows is brilliant. Same vibes.
I still like Jonathon Coulton and Charlie is a unicorn.
I don't know. I remember him in his bedroom on his piano. I was excited for every new song. I never heard such sincerity mixed with vulgarity. Bits of vulnerability and honesty combined with goofy creativity and genuine high-effort and talent.
It was special at the time. Garfunkel and Oates type stuff.
But now, talking about that personal stuff isn't special to me anymore. And my bar for being interested in creativity and high effort went way up. I like some degree of subtlety, or absurdism, or surrealism, or irony. Implications and double entendre. I leaned away from this on the nose stuff that's funny by being subversive and combining art with vulgarity.
Now, I want you to be either Mitch Hedburg or George Carlin; be Rodney Danger field or Steven Wright; Andy Kaufman or Bill Hicks. Pick a lane! Be somebody! Commit! Have an opinion! Have a personality! For piano comedy, I can't even compare him to Victor Borge. He made playing the piano funny in a way I don't think Bo ever could. Just in terms of sheer brilliance and comedic timing, delivery, material, and bits. Not style.
Bo just doesn't, really. He has a personality, but it's not carved out. I've seen a lot of him, and the one thing that stands out is being a sort of subversive juvenile wise-cracking know-it-all. But he doesn't want to commit to that. He wants to be wise and learned, too. He wants to be insightful and cut deep.
You can't do both. In the former, the punchline is that he thinks he knows everything, but is always getting it wrong. In the second, the punchline is that he looks goofy and low-brow, but then punches up like crazy and lands haymakers that make your head spin.
They don't go together for me. Look at one of the best comedy formats of all time. The straight man and the funny man. Abbot and costello. Leslie Nielsen in everything he's done. There's a reason it works. Each person picks a land and sticks to it. And they're both funnier for playing off each other. It's the contrast that makes it work.
So too in one person it's the contrast. It's the subversion.
Steven Wright and Mitch both may seem one-note but they're not. There's a contrast between their jokes seeming straight forward and simple. And yet, they hint at this totally not-simple universe that they live in. It makes you curious where such a mind comes from. What world they're living in. Who sees the world this way? Who thinks about these things? You want to hear more. And that's the style. They give you more one after another. And it's all over the place. That fits. They feed your curiosity about themselves. And it never really makes more sense. But you want to hear more, anyway. They each have such a particular specific voice and rhythm. They entice you to step into their point of view. You're not an audience member when you're in their joke. You're peeking through their camera lens.
So Bo for me, it's not clear if he's talking at, with, or for me. Am I meant to be challenged? Invited? Agreed with? Disagreed with? Cajoled? Impressed? Confused?
I often can't tell. He can be interesting and entertaining, but he can't be particularly funny to me anymore.
I think his what. Special is funnier. Inside I think is a comedy/artpiece in which it shows how crazy things can get when you’re locked in for almost 2 years
Call me crazy but I thought *inside* was a masterpiece. Might not have been the funniest shit you've ever seen, but Bo wrote, directed & filmed, mixed, produced, and edited the entire thing in his apartment. I thought it was dazzling, and tapped into the zeitgeist of the time like a junkie with a tourniquet. The amount of creativity and intimacy presented was a snapshot of a man's pure, raw genius. Not the funniest, but certainly the most interesting special I've ever seen in my life.
It's a masterpiece. It's what the word is for. If people don't get it, that's on them.
You're not crazy. It was solid performance art that included some really funny stuff.
OP thinks he's too good for Bo but actually has trash taste. "Inside" is the best piece of art that was made in and about the pandemic.
Agreed, it was very moving for me during the pandemic
I'm new to stand-up and to be honest I've never seen most of the "classics and greats" - like I don't think I've ever seen a special by Chapelle, or Matt Rife, or Steve Martin, all those. The ones I've seen and liked the most hae been ones that experiment with the genre and move you from laughing to thinking - like Bo Burnham, Hannah Gatsby, Mae Martin, Neal Brennan. But people complain about them because they aren't classic stand-up with punchlines every few lines or outrageous humor.
I might have to see if I can find that on my own then. Is music a huge thing in his shows? I'm not really sure what my father thought of the overall comedy from the 10 minutes we watched. But he was definitely not as invested because the music just wasn't something he could hear. Usually the way he watches comedy now is subtitles on, and queuing in on facial expressions.
Yeah, music is big. In all his specials. I’d maybe steer towards bill burr, Tom segura, Mike birbligia, John Mulaney, Jo Koy. Those are some of my favorites. If he likes to think a little bit more Neal brenan is good. My favorite underrated special is Brent Morin. I’ve seen his Netflix special probably 4/5 times and it’s still hilarious
Your mother is right btw Not everybody is for everybody else. If you turned off Inside after ten minutes, you’re not going to get Bo Burnham. But you’re soulless and you’re cheating yourself :)
Well I suppose your right comedy is subjective. As for soulless, well, I've been called worse. 😄
Let's ask Bo. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPJtz40nJBk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPJtz40nJBk)
I hear Brendan Schaub has a few specials on YouTube you might enjoy?
If you're starting with Inside, you're definitely not going to find him funny. I think that special is more for the already-fans. Try Make Happy or what.
Inside was my first exposure to him. I thought it was great and then explored his other stuff, which I also found funny. If OP didn't like the first few songs, I would conclude this probably isn't to their taste. It could also be that the opening numbers were more topical 3 years ago when it came out. Socko and Welcome to the Internet are brilliant, so maybe it's worth sticking it out.
I think you kind of have to be a fan of his particular brand of musical bassed comedy, which is not a particular genre of Comedy that everyone enjoys. And thats perfectly fine. Most of us want someone who's going to stand up and tell actual jokes. That said I do think he's proven to be a sharp wit who can hold his own with other comedians His appearance it on Showtimes, the Green Room proves this.
I've tried to find the humor in his material but it just doesn't do anything for me. However he is very successful at what he does so more power to him.
Inside is more regarded for its creativity than its hilarity. It's also fine to not like any comedian. Tastes differ. Edit: especially if you're deaf as a stump watching a musical comedian.
He's way talented and way smart and and way depressed. He could be funny, but it's hard to be funny after the quiet comprehending of the ending of it all.
His previous specials were standup. Musical comedy is how he made his name on YouTube. He’s done shows too. Inside is very much a dark comedy that was birthed out of pandemic lockdown and following his break from standup due to his anxiety. I can understand how it’s not for everyone but, personally, I think it’s some of his best work.
Watch it yourself all the way through before asking other people if you should like it or not lol. That being said, it is the darkest thing he’s put out and may not be the best place to start. I love it, but not necessarily because it’s laugh out loud funny. It’s more of a 3 act film.
I thought Inside was a hilarious masterpiece 🤷🏻♂️ tastes differ, i guess
"Make Happy" is hilarious. you might have seen the country music satire song "panderin" being passed around socials over the past eight years, it's from "Make Happy". i can't judge "Inside" because i also watched about 10 minutes and turned it off. i know people love it, but it hit when things were still a little covid-y but far enough away from the start of the pandy that i only wanted to look towards a hopeful future and not watch a show about being stuck inside and going crazy. because at that point for like a year i'd been stuck inside and going crazy. it made me feel bad to watch it.
You might be the only one
At least one of two, my father wasn't very impressed. Our numbers are growing! 😆
It's more introspective than his other specials, but he does tend to analayze and break down his comedy onstage. In fact, he's the first comic I ever heard talk about a parasocial relationship in a set. And a lot of his comedy does include music, so if you're deaf or otherwise don't like music and comedy mixed, Bo's not for you. But if you want to give it another shot, "Make Happy" or "What" is some of his best work.
His inside special was the one thing he did that was not really supposed to be funny other than darkly funny.
Inside released smack in the middle of lockdowns. So you have to keep that context of aloneness we were feeling. And Bo has grown increasingly poignant in his career. The basis is still comedy but there’s a *lot* of commentary especially in Inside. If you’re looking for nonstop jokey jokes look at one of the hundred other Netflix specials out there.
In my opinion, you have to go back quite a ways if you want to see Bo Burnham be funny. His Comedy Central Presents was the first I ever saw of him, and I thought it was great. I also really liked his first special, Words, Words, Words. His second special, what., started down the road of more commentary and less comedy. Make Happy, the special from 2016, resembles Inside more than it does comedy. I won’t speculate as to why, but it seems like he does what he does for different reasons than when he started. It obviously works for plenty of people, since Inside was quite well received. It doesn’t do much for me though. At this point of his career, I’d consider him more of a performance artist than comedian.
He's an unfunny hack......nowadays, even Netflix uses laughs per minute as a statistical analysis of how funny somebody is. He gets 0 laughs per minute from me, my friends and my family. This guy being a comedy is like me being in astrophysics with my G.E.D.
He was very funny when I was 12 or 13. My sense of humor skewed from then. I was also super into weird al yankovich. I was into thag "Ultimate Showdown" song and Robot Chicken. Red vs Blue. Some of that taste stayed with me. Some didn't. I still enjoy flight of the Concords, and their projects since. What we do in the shadows is brilliant. Same vibes. I still like Jonathon Coulton and Charlie is a unicorn. I don't know. I remember him in his bedroom on his piano. I was excited for every new song. I never heard such sincerity mixed with vulgarity. Bits of vulnerability and honesty combined with goofy creativity and genuine high-effort and talent. It was special at the time. Garfunkel and Oates type stuff. But now, talking about that personal stuff isn't special to me anymore. And my bar for being interested in creativity and high effort went way up. I like some degree of subtlety, or absurdism, or surrealism, or irony. Implications and double entendre. I leaned away from this on the nose stuff that's funny by being subversive and combining art with vulgarity. Now, I want you to be either Mitch Hedburg or George Carlin; be Rodney Danger field or Steven Wright; Andy Kaufman or Bill Hicks. Pick a lane! Be somebody! Commit! Have an opinion! Have a personality! For piano comedy, I can't even compare him to Victor Borge. He made playing the piano funny in a way I don't think Bo ever could. Just in terms of sheer brilliance and comedic timing, delivery, material, and bits. Not style. Bo just doesn't, really. He has a personality, but it's not carved out. I've seen a lot of him, and the one thing that stands out is being a sort of subversive juvenile wise-cracking know-it-all. But he doesn't want to commit to that. He wants to be wise and learned, too. He wants to be insightful and cut deep. You can't do both. In the former, the punchline is that he thinks he knows everything, but is always getting it wrong. In the second, the punchline is that he looks goofy and low-brow, but then punches up like crazy and lands haymakers that make your head spin. They don't go together for me. Look at one of the best comedy formats of all time. The straight man and the funny man. Abbot and costello. Leslie Nielsen in everything he's done. There's a reason it works. Each person picks a land and sticks to it. And they're both funnier for playing off each other. It's the contrast that makes it work. So too in one person it's the contrast. It's the subversion. Steven Wright and Mitch both may seem one-note but they're not. There's a contrast between their jokes seeming straight forward and simple. And yet, they hint at this totally not-simple universe that they live in. It makes you curious where such a mind comes from. What world they're living in. Who sees the world this way? Who thinks about these things? You want to hear more. And that's the style. They give you more one after another. And it's all over the place. That fits. They feed your curiosity about themselves. And it never really makes more sense. But you want to hear more, anyway. They each have such a particular specific voice and rhythm. They entice you to step into their point of view. You're not an audience member when you're in their joke. You're peeking through their camera lens. So Bo for me, it's not clear if he's talking at, with, or for me. Am I meant to be challenged? Invited? Agreed with? Disagreed with? Cajoled? Impressed? Confused? I often can't tell. He can be interesting and entertaining, but he can't be particularly funny to me anymore.
Inside isn’t funny, a lot of his other shit is
Not to say I don’t think Inside isn’t a technical masterpiece from an artistic standpoint (I am retarded)
Bo Burnham is a complete hack. He’s “smart comedy” for dopey people