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Throughout the song, Burnham tries to hide a sort of demonic character who works for Satan and wants nothing more than little girls' money.

It's scary, but in the funniest way. Even funnier about "Repeat Stuff" is the fact that Burnham first performed it while, unbeknownst to him, Justin Bieber was listening in the audience. Bieber is mentioned as a target of this song. Burnham later had to apologize to the Canadian heartthrob while doing an interview on Conan. Additionally, an official music video for "Repeat Stuff" was released in Some lyrics and aspects of the song were changed compared to the live version, but it's just as funny - and devilish - as its live counterpart.

We guess you can call this song a "cult classic. Have you ever had trouble sticking your hand inside a Pringles can? Bo Burnham understands your pain. In Burnham's version, the comedian says his problems aren't as large in scale as Kanye's, but he'd still like to talk about them.

In addition to the Pringles can bit, Burnham also complains about menial annoyances like burrito overspill. In verse 3, Burnham goes even deeper by giving us an aside about his declining mental health and how he's "putting on an act" for the audience.

Plus, Burnham has a great light show to go along with it! We've all joked about the generic lyrics found in modern day country songs, but it takes Bo Burnham to write a satirical song about it. In "Country Song," Burnham panders to his audience with common country tropes, all while hiding a darker character inside his fake southern charm.

While "Country Song" is without a doubt one of the funniest Burnham songs on our list, it also offers a social critique about how some country artists particularly male ones like to glorify labor in their song lyrics when they're so rich, they've never done a hard days work in their life. We love Bo's mocking country voice, the key change, and of course, all the scarecrows. This theatrical song has Burnham undergoing a psychological treatment from a robot in order to have better mental clarity.

It involves Burnham splitting his left and right brain in half, and forcing them to have a productive conversation with each other. The task is harder than it seems True to psychology, Burnham's left brain is logical, rational, and a "prick," while Burnham's right brain is more creative, emotional, and an "idiot. Not only is this song chaotically hilarious and a great way to study if you have a psychology test coming up, it's also got fantastic wordplay.

It's the double entendre in right brain's line, "You think you're the right one every time," and that final Star Wars pun left brain quotes Han Solo while also admitting he is unable to love because he's logical that show off Burnham's prowess as a writer. Another hit song from Burnham's special what. But more than that, this song shows off Bo's cruelness and sociopathy in a hysterical way. There's a lot to love about "Sad. It's simple, yet effective.

The live performance of this song shows just how much Burnham is able to work a crowd. Although Burnham states in the beginning of this track he's not good at playing guitar, "That Funny Feeling" from Inside proves to be a stellar acoustic number that could very easily be played in a coffee shop. In this song, Burnham essentially talks about the ironies of our modern world and the "funny feeling" they cause. It reflects on things like consumerism, cancel culture, brands using performative activism to appeal to the masses, and climate change.

The outro - "Hey, what can you say? We were overdue" - not only touches upon how long we've entertained modern anxieties, but also references how several scientists believed for years we were "overdue" for another pandemic. The dichotomy of the soft tone yet dark themes presented in "That Funny Feeling" make it a standout track in Burnham's discography. Plus, it's wonderfully catchy.

Another classic from what. In this piano bit, Burnham portrays God as an annoyed diety fed up with the human race's bickering about what's "right" and "wrong. Burnham goes through all of God's opinions in this song: from holy books, to masturbation, to pork, and the afterlife. For a song about how alienated we are from each other due to religion, "From God's Perspective" offers a unifying solution: to receive love from each other, we should not turn to God, but to ourselves.

Fans of this song would be pleased to know there's actually an older version Bo sang before We still can't get over the thought-provoking line "But no one entertains the thought that maybe God does not believe in you.

By the time he was 17, Burnham's musical-comedy chops were steadily growing a larger audience. He was discovered by an agent's assistant on YouTube at the tail end of It become one of his biggest hits on the platform. As of , it has 32 million views on YouTube. But Burnham never wound up attending school — instead, his professional career took off. Towards the end of , after Burnham had graduated and was performing for live audiences, writer-director Judd Apatow "The Year-Old Virgin," "Knocked Up" took an interest in the young comedian.

Apatow hired Burnham to write a screenplay that would be a "anti-'High School Musical'" movie. He was the youngest-ever person to record a special with the network. Burnham's recorded performance of the new show was released under the album titled "Words, Words, Words. Shortly before his 20th birthday, Burnham performed the show the world-famous Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the first time.

One description in a festival newsletter called him a "five-star comedy child prodigy," and his performance of "Words, Words Words" landed him at the top of the shortlist for the festival's comedy awards that year.

The half-hour scripted pilot was "about a kid fresh out of high school who's pursing the new American dream of being a celebrity without having any talent," Burnham told Variety at the time. Burnham played Zach Stone, a teenager who spent the money he was going to use on college tuition to hire a camera crew to document his life at home.

The character believed he could manufacture fame for himself by making himself look like the star of a reality show with staged events. During the episode, Burnham performed "Art is Dead" — one of his songs from "Words, Words, Words" — in front of the older generation of comics.

The song is a pointed analysis of how and why entertainers particularly of the male variety are "rewarded for never maturing" beyond their childlike need for attention. The song is one of Burnham's most notable works that digs at his own self-awareness and anticipation of the criticism that he doesn't actually have anything worth listening to about how the world works.

You can see this in one particular section of the song:. I am an artist, please god forgive me I am an artist, please don't revere me I am an artist, please don't respect me I am an artist, you're free to correct me. In his Facebook post announcing the cancelation , Burnham said he didn't want blame to be put on MTV's audience for the reason the show wasn't renewed. This challenge, though daunting, is a good thing. It pushes art forward.

Burnham said that perhaps the show could have a second life somewhere else, but as of his reality-show parody character has never resurfaced. Burnham not only released the new special, but also wrote and published a book of poetry TK title that year. Are they my friends? My customers? Something in between? It's all very strange and this show wasn't meant to give answers to the audience as much as it was meant to let the audience in on those questions if that makes sense.

In many interviews over the years, Burnham has said that he experienced bad stomachaches throughout high school and spent time in hospitals and his school nurse's office. But what he and adults around him were mistaking for some mysterious sickness was actually symptoms of anxiety.

As his live audiences grew in size, and his career pushed forward, that anxiety started manifesting as panic attacks. No one knew it was happening. Burnham says he didn't realize at the time that these were symptoms of a panic attack. He was looking up things like "how to deal with stage fright" online but not finding answers. He thought the issue was linked to his role as a performer — not an outside force that he'd always been dealing with.

A couple years later, in his second Netflix special, Burnham would continue needling the "stadium country music" industry with a song called "Pandering. Some of the highlights include songs like, "Yo my raps on Vine would be a lot stronger if the videos on Vine were just a little bit long—. During the last 15 minutes of "Make Happy," Burnham turns the comedy switch down a bit and begins talking to the audience about how his comedy is almost always about performing itself because he thinks people are, at all times, doing a "performance" for one another.

It's not. The arrogance is taught or it was cultivated. It's self-conscious. That's what it is. It's conscious of self. Social media; it's just the market's answer to a generation that demanded to perform so the market said, here, perform. Perform everything to each other, all the time for no reason. It's prison. Its horrific. Burnham then kicks back into a Kanye West style parody song, still addressing his audience, who seem unsure of whether to laugh, applaud, or sit somberly in their chairs.

And I don't think that I can handle this right now. Look at them, they're just staring at me, like 'Come and watch the skinny kid with a steadily declining mental health, and laugh as he attempts to give you what he cannot give himself. The video of his "Can't Handle This" song the "Kanye Rant" from the end of the special was uploaded to Burnham's YouTube account where it steadily grew more than 24 million views.

While self-awareness and commentary on the act of performing had always been a tenet of Burnham's comedy, "Make Happy" brought a new level of intimacy and sincerity to his work — and people responded with rave reviews. In a Reddit AMA Burnham did in June , he said he had been coming to terms with how to express the anxiety and panic attacks he was having "because it came from something I was pretty ashamed of and didn't even really want to admit to myself.

But by performing that song, Burnham said it made him feel "less anxious because now [his] anxiety was part of the show. Something unexpected came out of that expression of anxiety in his live shows — his younger fans, mostly teenage girls, were coming up to him after the shows to tell him that they could relate.

So when he sat down to write a movie script, his protagonist wound up being a year-old girl living in and making YouTube videos. He continued: "So it was 'What is it like to be alive right now? Burnham started watching a lot of YouTube videos to see how young people were expressing themselves on line. In , Burnham directed Jerrod Carmichael's Netflix special. The following year, he also directed Chris Rock's "Tamborine" special. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani is based on a true story, and features of a number of real-life comedians.

Burnham was among the cast of comedic actors who appears in scenes that take place at a comedy club. Years later, in Burnham's special "Inside," he would use a joke about pirate maps that appears in one of his scenes found in the DVD extras of "The Big Sick. The movie was was snubbed by the Oscars, but Burnham won several other awards for writing and directing his first feature film, including top honors at the Writers Guild and Directors Guild of America awards.

I had no more ideas in that space and I felt like I'd sort of exhausted myself as a subject. Burnham also talked about wanting to interrogate the way millennials and Gen Z's connection to the internet wasn't a black or white issue. It's overstimulating, it's numbing," Burnham told Rookie Mag in Black Lives Matter, Trump. Both things!