Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep reviewed it as similar to Shel Silverstein in that "it's kind of silly but it's also kind of dark". Richard Brody, “ Bo Burnham and the Possibilities of the Cinematic Selfie,” The New Yorker, June 9, 2021. With nowhere to go and no one to talk to IRL, Burnham dives headlong into the mediated world of memes, emoji, and reaction videos. Like Walt Whitman, Bo Burnham has made the transition from an internet comedy sensation to a soulful poet. Brian Logan, “ Bo Burnham: Inside review—this is a claustrophobic masterpiece,” The Guardian, May 31, 2021.

But even this blurring is hailed as an “authentic” representation of a fraying mind; regardless of the film’s insistent performativity, it has been received and even fetishized as a document of genuine feeling. Even if the special has this effect, Burnham’s explicit, relentless emphasis on Inside as a highly crafted performance seems at odds with the emphasis on his perceived honesty.Even as he remembers a time before memes and mentions, he swims nimbly in the digital seas of our current moment. It’s an encapsulation of his downward spiral in the year of COVID-19, documenting his mental decline as the songs get darker and his appearance gets more ragged — he doesn’t get a haircut or groom his beard for the duration of the project — in one of the most magnificent pieces of art I’ve ever seen. A Serving of Crime with a Difference - You May Just Discover Something Unique, Different, or Unusual in These 20 Crime Novels. For example, juxtaposed poems such as A Wonderful Day to be Dead and Up Above (detailing enjoying your mortality and the realisation of insignificance/delusions of grandeur that come from seeing the world from a plane window, respectively) show that Burnham can be both wildly hilarious and profoundly meaningful almost simultaneously. Burnham released the book in 2013, just several months ahead of his second hour-long comedy special what.

Burnham described his poems as "pretty literal", saying that Twitter had created a new "condensed, streamlined language" that forms a "new poetry" among his generation. Burnham does move fluidly between music genres: “Problematic” is a sweat- and synth-drenched ’80s exercise jam, “Welcome to the Internet” a kind of creepy cabaret. Eight months and seven songs later, Bo's videos have been seen over twenty million times worldwide, generating literally hundreds of thousands of laughs.We get a light dusting of remorse about offensive jokes made earlier in his career (“Bitch I’m trying to listen/Shit I’ve been complicit”), a short riff on suicide that vacillates unsettlingly between irony and empathy, and commentary about his panic attacks. His videos have been viewed over 209 million times, and he has amassed a gigantic online following that excitedly await each new video. Written in his very distinctive comedic voice, EGGHEAD: OR, YOU CAN’T SURVIVE ON IDEAS ALONE brings Bo’s award-winning brand of brainy word play to the page in the form of off-kilter writings, thoughts, and poems.

We pay respect to the Elders past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today. Self-fashioning as a woman—and trying to thread the needle of “acceptable” femininity, online and IRL—is an impossible task.The MTV series Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous, a mockumentary which Bo created, wrote, directed, and starred in, premiered in May 2013. He is not only a man who can make you pee your pants with laughter, he is a man who can make you think and a man who can make you cry. Teaming up with his longtime friend, artist and illustrator Chance Bone, Bo takes on everything from death to farts in this weird book that will make you think, laugh, and think, "Why did I just laugh? The mood shifts after about 35 minutes of what Jason Zinoman has described as “candy-colored, slickly designed sketch comedy. Bo’s witticisms with words are hilarious, thought-provoking, and charming with a little hint of disgusting.