With Inside, Bo Burnham continues to be a spokesperson for millennial anxiety and self-worth, whether he wants to be or not.
, Bo Burnham’s comedy special from 2016, the YouTuber-turned-comedian-turned-director shifts focus with about 15 minutes left in the show. Burnham was 25 at the time, 10 years into his career and in a relationship with director Lorene Scafaria, a partner 12 years his senior.
Burnham’s comedy has always been targeted towards white males, though, specifically woke-ish white male millennials, those that grew up understanding their elevated place in society yet imprinted a sense of untrue difficulty into their status. It’s a fair criticism levied against Burnham, that his winking at the camera becomes tired, and mocking one’s whiteness doesn’t alter the attached privilege.
Burnham succeeds in these specials, in spite of his past reliance on manic and sometimes offensive material, because he toes the line of truth and fabrication. On one occasion, he sits in front of a digital clock as it turns midnight, as we watch the comedian become 30 years old, launching into a song about aging and “used to’s.” On another, he weeps openly to the camera. Somehow, these moments of weakness contain sincerity, regardless of their root, or lack thereof, in reality.
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