bo burnham: inside transcript

.] WebBo Burnham's "Inside" special on Netflix is an incredibly detailed musical-comedy artwork. Still, its difficult not to be lulled back into, again, this absolute banger. Now, you heard me struggling to describe what this is, so help me out. This line comes full circle by the end of the special, so keep it in mind. One comment stuck out to me: Theres something really powerful and painful about, hearing his actual voice singing and breaking at certain points. Bo Burnham: Inside Netflix. But when reading songs like Dont Wanna Know and All Eyes On Me between the lines, Inside can help audiences better identify that funny feeling when they start feeling like a creator is their friend. Tapping on a synthesizer, he sings about the challenges of isolation as he sits on a cluttered floor, two striking squares of sunlight streaming in through the windows of a dark room. It also seems noteworthy that this is one of the only sketches in "Inside" that fades to black. His career evolved through YouTube, MTV, Vine, his movie "Eighth Grade," and now Netflix's "Inside." Photograph: Netflix Its a measure of the quality of Inside 1.0 that this stuff could end up on the cutting-room floor. Even when confronted with works that criticize parasocial attachment, its difficult for fans not to feel emotionally connected to performers they admire. So let's dive into "Inside" and take a closer look at nearly every song and sketch in Burnham's special. "), Burnham sang a parody song called "Sad" about, well, all the sad stuff in the world. "Truly, it's like, for a 16-year-old kid in 2006, it's not bad. / Are you having fun? The crowd directions are no longer stock pop song lyrics; now, the audience understands them as direct orders to them from Burnham. An existential dread creeps in, but Burnham's depression-voice tells us not to worry and sink into nihilism. There's also another little joke baked into this bit, because the game is made by a company called SSRI interactive the most common form of antidepressant drugs are called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, aka SSRIs. That's when the younger Burnham, the one from the beginning of his special-filming days, appears. "This show is called 'what.,' and I hope there are some surprises for you," he says as he goes to set down the water bottle. His 2014 song Repeat Stuff and its music video parodies how boy bands and other corporately-owned pop stars prey on young fans desire to feel loved by writing songs with lyrics vague enough anyone can feel like it was written specifically about them. Burnham's hair is shorter in those initial behind-the-scenes moments, but his future-self has a longer, unkempt beard and messy hair. Released on May 30, 2021, Bo Burnham wrote, recorded, directed, and produced Inside while in lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. Bo Burnham Good. Bo Burnham also uploaded Welcome to the Internet and White Womans Instagram on his YouTube channel. LINDA HOLMES, BYLINE: Thank you, Michel. I've been hiding from the world and I need to reenter.' While he's laying in bed, eyes about the close, the screen shows a flash of an open door. Fifteen 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. But the lyrics Burnham sings seem to imply that he wants to be held accountable for thoughtless and offensive jokes of his past: "Father please forgive me for I did not realize what I did, or that I'd live to regret it, times are changing and I'm getting old, are you gonna hold me accountable?". I feel very close and intimate with him in this version. And it has a real feel of restlessness to it, almost like stream of consciousness. begins with the question "Is it mean?" At the start of the special, Burnham sings "Content," setting the stage for his musical-comedy. The penultimate song "All Eyes on Me" makes for a particularly powerful moment. Hes bedraggled, increasingly unshaven, growing a Rasputin-like beard. "Inside" feels like the creative culmination of Bo Burnham's career over the last 15 years, starting with his first viral YouTube video in 2006. The song brings with it an existential dread, but Burnham's depression-voice tells us not to worry and sink into nihilism. Thank you so much for joining us. Carpool Karaoke, Steve Aoki, Logan Paul. Daddy made you your favorite. At first it seems to be just about life in the pandemic, but it becomes a reference to his past, when he made faces and jokes from his bedroom as a teenager and put that on the internet. And while its an ominous portrait of the isolation of the pandemic, theres hope in its existence: Written, designed and shot by Burnham over the last year inside a single room, it illustrates that theres no greater inspiration than limitations. WebBo Burnham's new Netflix comedy special "Inside" is jam-packed with references to his previous work. See our analysis of the end of the special, and why Burnham's analogy for depression works so well. Inside takes topics discussed academically, analytically, and delivers them to a new audience through the form of a comedy special by a widely beloved performer. According to the special, Bo decided he was ready to begin doing stand-up again in January 2020, after dealing with panic attacks onstage during his previous tour, the Make Happy Tour of 2015-2016. I have a funky memory and I sometimes can't remember things from something I've watched, even if it was just yesterday. Bo Burnham But by using this meta-narrative throughout the whole special, Burnham messes with our ability to know when we're seeing a genuine struggle with artistic expression versus a meticulously staged fictional breakdown. But unlike many of us, Burnham was also hard at work on a one-man show directed, written and performed all by himself. They Cloned Tyrone. Well now the shots are reversed. Under stand up, Burnham wrote "Middle-aged men protecting free speech by humping stools and telling stories about edibles" and "podcasts. He also costarred in the Oscar-winning movie "Promising Young Woman," filmed in 2019. Transcript Comedian and filmmaker Bo Burnham used his time alone during the pandemic to create a one-man show. WebA grieving woman magically travels through time to 1998, where she meets a man with an uncanny resemblance to her late love. The piece also highlights Bos anxieties with becoming older and his legacy as a comedian. The lead-in is Burnham thanking a nonexistent audience for being there with him for the last year. In his new Netflix special, Inside, Bo Burnham sings about trying to be funny while stuck in a room. It's progress. Poioumenon (from the Greek word for "product") is a term created by author Alastair Fowler and usually used to refer to a kind of metafiction. HOLMES: That was NPR's Linda Holmes reviewing Bo Burnham's new Netflix special "Inside." And that can be a really - if you're not very good at it, that kind of thing, where there's a balance between sort of the sarcastic and ironic versus the very sincere can be really exhausting. "You say the whole world's ending, honey it already did, you're not gonna slow it, heaven knows you tried. Good. Bo Burnham: Inside He is now back to where he was, making jokes alone in his room, an effort to escape his reality. At the second level of the reaction video, Burnham says: "I'm being a little pretentious. And you can roughly think about this, I think, as a series of short videos that are mostly of him singing songs and that are sewn together with a little bit of other material, whether it's shots of him lying in bed or setting up the cameras. MARTIN: And it's deep, too. HOLMES: Well, logically enough, let's go out on the closing song. 7 on the Top 200. My heart hurts with and for him. For those who are unaware, Bos real name is Robert Burnham. But before that can register, Burnham's eyes have closed and the special transitions to the uncannily catchy song "S---," bopping about how he hasn't showered in nine days or done any laundry. Instead of a live performance, he's recorded himself in isolation over the course of a year. His new Netflix special Inside was directed, written and performed all inside one room. WebA Girl and an Astronaut. But I described it to a couple of people as, you know, this looks like what the inside of my head felt like because of his sort of restlessness, his desire to create, create, create. Not in the traditional senseno music was released prior to the special other than a backing track from Content found in the trailer. Disclosure: Mathias Dpfner, CEO of Business Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, is a Netflix board member. Known as "Art is a Lie, Nothing is Real," there's a bit Burnham did at the start of his 2013 special "what." We see Burnham moving around in the daylight, a welcome contrast to the dark setting of "All Eyes on Me." I don't think it's perfectly morally defendable.". As energetic as the song "S---" is, it's really just another clear message about the mental disorder that has its grips in Burnham (or at least the version of him we're seeing in this special). Bo Burnham defined an era when he created Inside. He had a role in the film "Promising Young Woman." In White Womans Instagram, the comedian assumes the role of a white woman and sings a list of common white lady Instagram posts (Latte foam art / Tiny pumpkins / Fuzzy, comfy socks) while acting out even more cliched photos in the video with wild accuracy. It's wonderful to be with you. And then, of course, he had previous standup comedy specials. As he shows in this new sketch, he's aware at a meta level that simply trying to get ahead of the criticism that could be tossed his way is itself a performance sometimes. The vocal key used in "All Eyes On Me" could be meant to represent depression, an outside force that is rather adept at convincing our minds to simply stay in bed, to not care, and to not try anymore. The incentives of the web, those that reward outrage, excess and sentiment, are the villains of this show. HOLMES: Yeah. Inside, a new Netflix special written, performed, directed, shot, and edited by comedian Bo Burnham, invokes and plays with many forms. But usually there is one particular voice that acts as a disembodied narrator character, some omniscient force that needles Burnham in the middle of his stand up (like the voice in "Make Happy" that interrupts Burnham's set to call him the f-slur). And I'm just wondering, like, how would you describe that? Burnham's earlier Netflix specials and comedy albums. In the song "That Funny Feeling," Burnham mentions these two year spans without further explanation, but it seems like he's referencing the "critical window for action to prevent the effects of global warming from becoming irreversible. Under the TV section, he has "adults playing twister" (something he referenced in "Make Happy" when he said that celebrity lip-syncing battles were the "end of culture") and "9 season love letter to corporate labor" (which is likely referencing "The Office"). The first comes when Burnham looks directly into the camera as he addresses the audience, singing, Are you feeling nervous? It moves kind of all over the place. Using cinematic tools other comics overlook, the star (who is also the director, editor and cameraman) trains a glaring spotlight on internet life mid-pandemic. The song's melody is oddly soothing, and the lyrics are a sly manifestation of the way depression convinces you to stay in its abyss ("It's almost over, it's just begun. HOLMES: It felt very true to me, not in the literal sense. And if you go back and you look at a film like "Eighth Grade," he's always been really consumed by sort of the positive and the negative of social media and the internet and the life of of young kids. Don't overthink this, look in my eye don't be scared don't be shy come on in the water's fine."). Comedian Bo Burnham recently a new comedy special for Netflix aptly titled Inside which was filmed entirely by himself while under lockdown during the Coronavirus Pandemic in 2020. And it's important to remember, you know, this is a piece of theater. He's self-evaluating his own visual creation in the same way people will often go back to look at their Instagram stories or posts to see how it looks after they've shared it. Burnham uses vocal tuning often throughout all of his specials. The clearest inspiration is Merle Traviss 16 Tons, a song about the unethical working conditions of coal miners also used in weird Tom Hanks film Joe vs. Bo Burnham Burnham's creative background began with being a theater then he transitioned to musical-comedy. A part of me loves you, part of me hates you / Part of me needs you, part of me fears you / [. "Trying to be funny and stuck in a room, there isn't much more to say about it," he starts in a new song after fumbling a first take. From the very beginning of "Inside," Burnham makes it clear that the narrative arc of the special will be self-referential. HOLMES: So before he was this celebrated filmmaker, Bo Burnham was himself a YouTube star. Finally doing basic care tasks for yourself like eating breakfast and starting work in the morning. The whole video is filmed like one big thirst trap as he sweats and works out. Likewise, the finale of Burnhams next special, Make Happy (2016) closes in a song called Handle This (Kanye Rant). The song starts as him venting his hyperbolically small problems, until the tone shifts, and he starts directly addressing the audience, singing: The truth is, my biggest problem is you / [. you might have missed in Bo Burnham He was alone. The whole song sounds like you're having a religious experience with your own mental disorder, especially when new harmonies kick in. It's just Burnham, his room, the depressive-sound of his song, and us watching as his distorted voice tries to convince us to join him in that darkness. Bo Burnham: Inside, was written, edited, and directed by the talent himself and the entire show is shot in one room. I'm sitting down, writing jokes, singing silly songs, I'm sorry I was gone. The aesthetic telegraphs authenticity and vulnerability, but the specials stunning final shots reveal the misdirection at work, encouraging skepticism of the performativity of such realism. As we explained in this breakdown of 31 details you might have missed in "Inside," Bo Burnham's newest special is a poioumenon a type of artistic work that tells the story of its own creation. His virtuosic new special, Inside (on Netflix), pushes this trend further, so far that it feels as if he has created something entirely new and unlikely, both sweepingly cinematic and claustrophobically intimate, a Zeitgeist-chasing musical comedy made alone to an audience of no one. This special spoke to me closer and clearer than Ive ever felt with another person. Coined in 1956 by researchers Donald Horton and Richard Wohl, the term initially was used to analyze relationships between news anchors who spoke directly to the audience and that audience itself. TikTok creator @TheWoodMother made a video about how Burnham's "Inside" is its own poioumenon thanks to the meta scenes of Burnham setting up lights and cameras, not to mention the musical numbers like "Content" and "Comedy" that all help to tell the story of Burnham making this new special. BO BURNHAM: (Singing) If you'd have told me a year ago that I'd be locked inside of my home, I would have told you a year ago, interesting, now leave me alone. Its an uncanny, dystopian view of Burnham as an instrument in the soulless game of social media. And I don't think that I can handle this right now. Just wanted to make sure everybody knew about Bo's comedy special transcripts on Scraps. (SOUNDBITE OF COMEDY SPECIAL, "BO BURNHAM: INSIDE"). The tension between creator and audience is a prominent theme in Burnhams work, likely because he got his start on YouTube. Bo Burnham's new Netflix comedy special "Inside" is jam-packed with references to his previous work. Now, hes come a long way since his previous specials titled What. and Make Happy, where his large audiences roared with laughter And finally today, like many of us, writer, comedian and filmmaker Bo Burnham found himself isolated for much of last year - home alone, growing a beard, trying his best to stay sane. But then the video keeps playing, and so he winds up reacting to his own reaction, and then reacting yet again to that reaction. I actually felt true mutual empathy with someone for the first time, and with someone Ive never even met, its kinda funny.. MARTIN: So Bo Burnham has had a lot of different identities lately. Theyre complicated. The frame is intimate, and after such an intense special, something about that intimacy feels almost dangerous, like you should be preparing for some kind of emotional jump scare. Went out to look for a reason to hide again. The clean, tidy interior that first connected "Inside" with "Make Happy" is gone in its place is a mess-riddled space. Thematically, it deals with the events of 2020, rising wealth inequality, racial injustice, isolation, mental health, social media, and technologys role in our lives. Inside (2021) opens with Bo Burnham sitting alone in a room singing what will be the first of many musical comedy numbers, Content. In the song, Burnham expresses, Roberts been a little depressed ii. Review: Bo Burnham's 'Inside Netflix did, however, post Facetime with My Mom (Tonight) on YouTube. HOLMES: Right. "Everything that once was sad is somehow funny now, the Holocaust and 9/11, that s---'s funny, 24-7, 'cause tragedy will be exclusively joked about, because my empathy iss bumming me out," he sang. For the album, Bo is credited as writer, performer, and producer on every song. Burnham has said in interviews that his inspiration for the character came from real YouTube videos he had watched, most with just a handful of views, and saw the way young women expressed themselves online. And its easier to relax when the video focuses on a separate take of Burnham singing from farther away, the frame now showing the entire room. But now Burnham is showing us the clutter of the room where "Inside" was filmed. "You say the ocean's rising, like I give a s---, you say the whole world's ending, honey it already did, you're not gonna slow it, heaven knows you tried," he sings. He's the writer, director, editor, and star of this show. Bo Burnham He decided to stop doing live performances, and instead set out to write and direct his first feature film, the critically-acclaimed 2018 movie "Eighth Grade." Now, five years later, Burnham's new parody song is digging even deeper at the philosophical question of whether or not it's appropriate to be creating comedy during a horrifyingly raw period of tragedy like the COVID-19 pandemic and the social reckoning that followed George Floyd's murder. BURNHAM: (Singing) Start a rumor, buy a broom or send a death threat to a Boomer. ", Right as Burnham is straightening up, music begins blaring over the speakers and Burnham's own voice sings: "He meant to knock the water over, yeah yeah yeah, but you all thought it was an accident. Well, well, buddy you found it, now come out with your hands up we've got you surrounded.". As someone who has devoted time, energy, and years of research into parasocial relationships, I felt almost like this song was made for me, that Burnham and I do have so much in common. He is not talking about it very much. And like those specials, Inside implores fans to think about deeper themes as well as how we think about comedy as a genre. They may still be comical, but they have a different feel. "I'm criticizing my initial reaction for being pretentious, which is honestly a defense mechanism," he says. Whatever it is, NPR's Linda Holmes, host of Pop Culture Happy Hour, has reviewed it, and she liked it. And so I think he's always had that stubborn insistence on holding both of those things in his head at the same time. Burnhams eyes are sharply in focus; the rest of him faded out subtly, a detail you might not even notice with how striking his eyes are. He brushes his teeth, eats a bowl of cereal, and begins editing his videos. It's a heartbreaking chiding coming from his own distorted voice, as if he's shaming himself for sinking back into that mental state. It's a reprieve of the lyrics Burnham sang earlier in the special when he was reminiscing about being a kid stuck in his room. Inside Bo HOLMES: So, as you'll hear there, on the one hand, there's a lot of sadness in what he's talking about there. That's a really clever, fun little rhyme in this, you know, kind of heavy song. Exploring mental health decline over 2020, the constant challenges our world faces, and the struggles of life itself, Bo Burnham creates a wonderful masterpiece to explain each of these, both from general view and personal experience. The video is an hour-long edit of footage that was deleted from the making of Inside. Initially, this seems like a pretty standard takedown of the basic bitch stereotype co-opted from Black Twitter, until the aspect ratio widens and Burnham sings a shockingly personal, emotional caption from the same feed. '", "Robert's been a little depressed, no!" Its a feat, the work of a gifted experimentalist whose craft has caught up to his talent. Under the movies section, there's a bubble that says "sequel to classic comedy that everyone watches and then pretends never happened" and "Thor's comebacks.". Anything and everything all of the time. Something went wrong. To save you the time freeze-framing, here's the complete message: "No pressure by the way at any point we can stop i just want to make sure ur comfortable all this and please dont feel obligated to send anything you dont want to just cuz i want things doesnt mean i should get them and its sometimes confusing because i think you enjoy it when i beg and express how much i want you but i dont ever want that to turn into you feeling pressured into doing something you don't want or feeling like youre disappointing me this is just meant to be fun and if at any point its not fun for you we can stop and im sorry if me saying this is killing the mood i just like ".

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