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A sharp, emotionally bruising comedy special that blends stand-up, music, and performance art into something unusually personal. It’s funny, technically inventive, and gradually turns into a portrait of anxiety, self-awareness, and the pressure to perform happiness.
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Fri · 1h 0m
Director: Christopher Storer, Bo Burnham
Starring: Bo Burnham, Lorene Scafaria
Combining his trademark wit and self-deprecating humor with original music, Bo Burnham offers up his unique twist on life in this stand-up special about life, death, sexuality, hypocrisy, mental illness and Pringles cans.
Christopher Storer, Bo Burnham
Bo Burnham, Lorene Scafaria
A sharp, emotionally bruising comedy special that blends stand-up, music, and performance art into something unusually personal. It’s funny, technically inventive, and gradually turns into a portrait of anxiety, self-awareness, and the pressure to perform happiness.
Bo Burnham turns a comedy special into a tightly controlled emotional spiral, using songs, lighting, choreography, and rapid-fire punchlines to build a show that is as polished as it is unstable. The result is funny on the surface and increasingly uneasy underneath, with jokes about success, loneliness, sexuality, and self-loathing landing harder because the performance is so exacting.
What makes it stand out is the way it weaponizes the language of entertainment itself. Burnham keeps reminding you that he is performing, then uses that performance to expose the strain of being watched, praised, and expected to be “on” all the time. The music is catchy, the staging is clever, and the emotional turn near the end gives the whole special a lingering ache.
This is not a casual background watch; it’s a piece that rewards attention and a willingness to sit with discomfort. If you like comedy that is smart, formally playful, and quietly devastating, it’s one of the most memorable specials of its era.
Josh Lewis · 3293 likes
"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."
#1 gizmo fan (5★) · 2459 likes
Y'ALL DUMB MOTHERFUCKERS WANT A KEY CHANGE
Leticia Fernandes (5★) · 2318 likes
at the club: could you play Bo Burnham's Kill Yourself?
James (Schaffrillas) (4★) · 1500 likes
Ended up writing and deleting a long-ass paragraph about how guilty and pathetic I feel for being unhappy with my moderately successful life. The bottom line is, Bo understands and conveys this feeling better than any performer I've ever seen. I can't wait to finish his back catalog of specials. And good Lord would it kill them to make Pringles cans a little wider
#1 gizmo fan (5★) · 1063 likes
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mental health, self-loathing, performance anxiety, fame and audience expectation, sexuality, hypocrisy, loneliness, identity
dark comedy, musical comedy, stand-up special, performance art, anxiety, depression, self-aware, surreal, introspective, 2010s