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Bo Burnham’s New Special Might Make You More Compassionate
3 lessons I learned while crying during another Bo Burnham special.
When I turned on Bo Burnham’s new special, Inside, I really wasn’t expecting to cry during a song about a “White Woman’s Instagram”, nor was I expecting to be singing about Jeffrey Bezos for a week after watching it.
But alas, here we are. Honestly, I think this special is a masterpiece, and just like Bo’s previous comedy special, Make Happy, it made me cry, laugh, and think all at the same time.
The special has plenty of funny moments and quirky lines, but it’s not your traditional comedy special. It’s more of an odyssey of performance art. It’s an hour and a half of cultural observations on a raw, unapologetic, and honest level. There’s no BS, just a man inside his house with his instruments, his camera, and his demons.
But what I see most from Bo’s work is a sense of self-awareness, humility, and the passion to persist despite his pain. It’s humbling, inspiring, and powerful as fuck. It makes me realize that there’s so much I know I don’t know about life.
These are 3 realizations that I had while watching Inside:
