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.
Admittedly “goofy,” in many regards Bo fancies himself a satirist – a lofty aim of any humorist, never mind a pubescent comedian. His clever lyricism about math and Santa and g-spots is, hopefully, Bo’s comedic point of view in its infancy. I expect big things from Bo; he’s already got an L.A. agent, an acceptance letter into NYU’s prestigious acting program and a deal with Comedy Central Records, placing him among the likes of Denis Leary, Jim Gaffigan and Dane Cook.
In spite of the Comedy Central deal, Bo is distributing his first self-produced EP on iTunes, in keeping with his homegrown flair. It’s a fitting business model for Bo’s gangly on-camera persona, which broadcasts mostly from a bedroom in his parents’ house.
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