For me, what makes this collection worthwhile is that it’s full of everyday experiences that are never normally covered in ‘serious’ anthologies (like playing video games). In reality, though, Burnham filmed Inside in his guest house, 20 feet away from the Los Angeles home where he lives with his longtime girlfriend, director Lorene Scafaria, and their dog. Like Walt Whitman, Bo Burnham has made the transition from an internet comedy sensation to a soulful poet. Brian Logan, “ Bo Burnham: Inside review—this is a claustrophobic masterpiece,” The Guardian, May 31, 2021. It is possible to draw a line from David Foster Wallace to Ben Lerner to Bo Burnham: white men who explore the fraying and fragmenting effects of late capitalism and its online infrastructures.

Bo Burnham was a teenager living in his parents' attic in Massachusetts when he started posting funny songs to YouTube that immediately turned heads with their wise satire that belied his very young age. Even as he remembers a time before memes and mentions, he swims nimbly in the digital seas of our current moment.Also, some of the jokes and poems fell kind of flat, looking more like filler content than anything else… and that’s where the negative ends on this book. But with the stream of praise for his new special turned to full blast, I pressed play and prepared to be dazzled.

A strange and charming collection of hilariously absurd poetry, writing, and illustration from one of today's most popular young comedians? Bo Burnham was a teenager living in his parents’ attic in Massachusetts when he started posting funny songs to YouTube that immediately turned heads with their wise satire that belied his very young age. Put simply, Inside is the story, told through song and clever visuals, of a comic trying to make a funny show during the pandemic and slowly slipping into disassociation and depression.Douglas Phillips is someone who seeks to explore the science-fiction genre in all of its shapes and aspects, and with his novel Phenomena h. This is an incredibly open ended question, so if you have any book that Inside conjured up for you I’d love to hear it.

Self-fashioning as a woman—and trying to thread the needle of “acceptable” femininity, online and IRL—is an impossible task. Egghead was released in 2013, when he was aged 23; the same year, he was touring with his stand-up show what. Though generational identity is a dubious construct, its taxonomies are by now familiar enough to influence how a special like Inside is produced, marketed, and received. Adrian Horton, “ How Bo Burnham’s Netflix special Inside set the bar for quarantine art,” The Guardian, June 15, 2021. His 2021 Netflix special INSIDE won three Emmy Awards and was hailed by The Guardian as 'a claustrophobic masterpiece'.

Rachel Syme, “‘Inside,’ Reviewed: Bo Burnham’s Virtuosic Portrait of a Mediated Mind,” The New Yorker, June 7, 2021. We pay respect to the Elders past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today. This explains the special’s name, which alludes to the claustrophobia of quarantine and to the film’s main subject, the inner workings of Burnham’s mind.