He sings "White Woman's Instagram" about Instagram tropes. In a parody of a product brand consultant, Burnham talks about companies needing to perform moral virtues. He then sings "How the World Works" to teach children about nature, but the sock puppet he introduces begins to sing about various controversial topics, including historical genocide and worker exploitation, before criticizing Burnham for explaining the issues through his perspective.
He performs "FaceTime with My Mom (Tonight)", a song about the frustrations of FaceTiming his mother. After singing "Content" and satirizing white male comedians in "Comedy", he finds the motivation to begin making the special. He gives periodic updates about the time that has passed while he worked on the special, with his hair and beard growing throughout. Unable to leave his home, Burnham performs in a single room. In the intervening years, he wrote and directed Eighth Grade (2018) and starred in Promising Young Woman (2020). During the tour for Make Happy, Burnham began to have panic attacks onstage. After these songs were adapted into his debut self-titled album (2009), he performed three stand-up tours, the first two of which were released as albums and the last two as recorded performances: Words Words Words (2010), what. For Inside, Burnham received Emmy Awards for Outstanding Music Direction, Outstanding Writing, and Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special.īo Burnham is a musical comedian who rose to fame by posting videos on YouTube from 2006 onwards. Critics found that the special incorporates a variety of art forms including music, stand-up comedy bits, and meta-commentary, describing it as some combination of comedy, drama, documentary, and theater. The special received critical acclaim, with reviewers praising its music, direction, cinematography, and presentation of life in the pandemic. It was released on May 30, 2021, and an album of songs from the special, Inside (The Songs), was released digitally on June 10, 2021. Inside follows Burnham's previous special Make Happy (2016), during which Burnham began to experience panic attacks while performing onstage. More light-hearted segments discuss online activities such as calling one's mother on FaceTime, posting on Instagram, sexting, and video game streaming. Featuring a variety of songs and sketches about Burnham's day-to-day life indoors, it depicts his deteriorating mental health and explores themes of performativity and his relationship to the Internet and the audience it helped him reach, as well as addressing issues including climate change and social movements. Recorded in the guest house of his Los Angeles home during the COVID-19 pandemic without a crew or audience, it was released on Netflix on May 30, 2021. Bo Burnham: Inside is a 2021 American special written, directed, filmed, edited, and performed by comedian Bo Burnham.
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