Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone From the creator of Netflix phenomenon Outside

Product Information

Egghead was released in 2013, when he was aged 23; the same year, he was touring with his stand-up show what. He puts a sock on his hand for a duet about the problems of neoliberalism: while Burnham sings an upbeat song about “How the World Works,” the puppet interjects with verses about historical genocide and the exploitation of workers. He is not only a man who can make you pee your pants with laughter, he is a man who can make you think and a man who can make you cry.

This ability to show glimpses of vulnerability and beauty in the middle of a landscape of outrageous and sometimes cruel comedy is one of the defining characteristics of his live performances and the thing that draws people to him. From film to visual art, from theatre to pop, our critics pick their highlights of the year in arts".Such writing fictionalizes (often lightly) versions of the author to blur the boundaries between what is real and what is imagined, offering the patina of truth and the play of postmodernism. It’s highly alliterative and uses a number of other sound devices to comment on human nature and society’s ills.

Hailed for capturing COVID-era universal realities, Burnham may in fact show us something that is neither universal nor real, his screen mostly mirror, his candor full of smoke. The pinnacle, the part that demands to be sang along to at full volume, gets me every time: “You say the ocean’s rising, like I give a shit. I remember sitting on the couch reading it the night I got it and cackling away at the hilarity therein – I even took photos of some of my favourite poems and sent them to people. His videos have been viewed over 209 million times, and he has amassed a gigantic online following that excitedly await each new video. Judd Apatow was an early champion of the young comedian, and Bo taped his first Comedy Central special at age 18, the youngest in history.phenomenon, Bo Burnham, brings you his first full-length album, a CD of the best of his hilarious, irreverent, and craftily-worded songs. 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. Listen, in this world of digital madness, you gotta make time for the important things, like FaceTiming with your mom even when she keeps her thumb over the camera.