It's Bo, Yo. And Bo Knows Funny.

Bo Burnham screams potential. Figuratively, of course, since the man-child ne’er screams in his videos, but rather tentatively raps and sings with the vocal stylings of a kid explaining a homework problem in calculus class after listening to way too much.  



It wouldn’t be at all surprising if Bo Burnham actually took some form of advanced mathematics since the self-taught musician and 17-year-old YouTube star from Massachusetts seems really smart, or at least geeky (he openly admits to liking Rubik’s Cube, if that tells you anything). And though I’ve avoided precocious teenagers for most of my adult life, even I can admit that there’s something special about NSFW Bo.

Robert “Bo” Burnham started posting videos on YouTube as a way of sharing them with his brother, a student at Cornell University. Bo, a recent high school grad from an all-boys Catholic school, whet his performing appetite a couple of years ago, partly in the school’s theater group and partly after rehearsals, tinkering with the school piano. He started writing songs to amuse his friends and after only a couple of months, one of his videos was featured on Break.com.