Bo Burnham

Robert Pickering Bo Burnham born August 21 1990 is an American comedian musician actor film director screenwriter and poet He began his career on YouTube in March 2006 with his videos gaining more than 300 million views as of March 2021 Burnham signed a fouryear record deal with Comedy Central Records and released his debut EP Bo fo Sho in 2008 His first fulllength album Bo Burnham was released the following year At the age of 18 he became the youngest person to record a halfhour comedy special with Comedy Central In 2010 his second album Words Words Words was released along with his first live comedy special of the same name on Comedy Central His third album and second comedy special what was released in 2013 on his YouTube channel and Netflix He finished in first place at the 2011 Comedy Central Standup Showdown His third standup comedy special Make Happy was released exclusively on Netflix in 2016 His fourth comedy special Bo Burnham Inside premiered on Netflix in 2021 In 2013 Burnham cocreated and starred in the MTV television series Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous and released a book of poetry called Egghead Or You Cant Survive on Ideas Alone His first feature film as a writer and director Eighth Grade was released in 2018 to widespread critical acclaim among other accolades it received the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing FirstTime Feature Film In 2020 Burnham starred as Ryan Cooper in the film Promising Young Woman