Bo Burnham Biography

Bo Burnham is an American comedian singer-songwriter musician actor and Internet celebrity. Writing comedic and satirical songs with a politically incorrect slant his YouTube videos have received more than 70 million views by October 2010. His first EP Bo Fo Sho was released in June 2008 by Comedy Central Records and his first full-length self titled album was released by the same label in March 2009. On January 31 2010 it was announced that Burnham finished overall in voting in 2010's Comedy Central Stand-up Showdown.
As detailed by Burnham himself 2006 was the beginning of what would become his musical comedy career. Rehearsing a play at his high school that summer Burnham began writing songs about teenage angst and debuting them to his fellow high school thespians. He then videotaped himself performing two songs and posted them to the video-sharing website YouTube in December 2006 so that his older brother Pete could watch them from college. While response to his videos on YouTube was initially unexceptional when they were copied to Break.com they became an overnight sensation with traffic to his videos multiplying over 111 times.
Accompanying himself on guitar or electric piano Burnham continued to release self-described pubescent musical comedy songs and videos online as his fame and recognition grew. Described by The Boston Globe's Joseph P. Kahn as simultaneously wholesome and disturbing intimate in a folksy-creepy sort of way Burnham wrote and released R-rated songs about white supremacy Helen Keller's disabilities homosexuality and more. All of Burnham's home-released videos were self-recorded in and around his family's home in Hamilton Massachusetts most in his bedroom. Speaking with The A.V. Club in 2009 Burnham expressed his intent to give his productions a do-it-yourself almost like voyeurism.

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