Bo Burnham's creative journey: started on YouTube, now on TV

Bo Burnham started posting video on YouTube before there were bloggers. Perhaps that's why it gained popularity so quickly. Or maybe it has something to do with the deep sense of his songs? You decide.

Our article is dedicated to his creative tracks. You'll find out where he started, how he continued and what he's doing now, as well as why his tracks are so catching on with millions of people from all over the world....

To the delight of the family

Robert "Bo" Burnham was born on 21 August 1990 and grew up in the suburbs Bostonwhere he attended a private boys' school and fell in love with theatre. His father was a business owner and his mother worked as a nurse.

At St John's, Burnham was part of the. theatre programmes, and also participated in a state programme called the Massachusetts High School Drama Guild. Burnham and his colleagues played 40-minute plays for each other playsand then discussed them during the competition rounds. Bo admitted in one of the interview:

"It was really, really beautiful and wonderful and it was an incredible programme. It was like my first real love of art. One of the best moments of my life was being a part of it."

"I didn't expect it myself": a sudden success.

In 2006, Burnham wrote a few parodies of the songs and wanted to show them to his brother. So he uploaded a video of his performance to YouTube. By December. 2006 year (when Burnham uploaded "My Whole Family") YouTube had not yet become a major social media platform. It was more like a mechanism through which people shared domestic films or informational videos with their families. Everyone posted what they wanted and didn't care much about the quality of the content.

The song "My Whole Family Thinks I'm Gay" was written from the perspective of a boy-adolescent.

"My Whole Family" has become viral on YouTube and another site called Break.com, where the song racked up over 250,000 listens in one day. Back then, that was an incredible number of people who saw the video in one day. Today, the video has racked up just over 11 million Views.

By 2008, Burnham had written his first album comedy songs and was gaining momentum in the comedy world. By the time he was 17, Burnham's musical comedy was steadily gaining all the large an audience. He was discovered by an agent's assistant on YouTube in late 2007.

The same day he released a comedy album "Bo Fo Sho."Burnham has uploaded a video for a new song called. "I'm Bo Yo.". The pun-filled parody rap contains lines such as:

"But, girl, don't sit on that couch 'cause I treat my objects like women.
But, girl, don't sit on that couch, because I treat my things like women."

Burnham only finished collegeHe did not go to university. Instead, he concentrated on his professional career.

A brilliant actor and more!

Towards the end. 2008 a year after Burnham graduated. study and performed in front of live audiences, writer and director Judd Apatow ("A Little Pregnant") took an interest in the young comedian. Apatow had hired Burnham to write. scenarios. The project never went into production, but generated more buzz around Burnham's potential as a film and television creator.

В 2009 year Burnham released a full-length of the same name. albumwhich included songs from his mini-album. He started performing on concertssuch as Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Burnham attended more and more television events, such as appearances on MTV's Carson Daly Show and NBC's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon," and at festivals such as the All Points West Music and Arts Festival in New Jersey.

К 2010 year he filmed his first special and released the critically acclaimed album "Words, Words, Words.". Burnham was 19 years old when he performed the set for the serial Comedy Central's "House of Comedy Live from House of Blues." Burnham's recorded performance of the new show was released under the title "Words, Words, Words".

Burnham continued to appear in comediesfor example, in the 2011 film "Green Room.". During the episode, Burnham performed "Art is Dead.". The song is a poignant analyses how and why artists (especially male artists) are "rewarded for never growing up" beyond their childhood need for attention.

The song is one of the most notable Burnham's work, which digs into his own self-consciousness and anticipates the criticism that he doesn't really have anything worth listening to about how the world works.

In fact, this guy's life might seem like iridescentbut it's not that simple. Burnham said that he'd often come across panic attacks and continues to fight them to this day.

"I've had ten panic attacks in my life. Nine on stage and one on the train between shows."

In recent news, in March. 2021 of the year, news broke that Burnham was to play the iconic Boston Celtics star Larry Berda in the HBO series "Time to Win: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty," set in the 1980s. No premiere date has been announced yet, though the pilot episode is officially "complete." But Burnham has a myriad of projects that we're still watching from the with interest.