/b/ - Siberia

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What?

>>115871
>>115873
epic memes XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

>>115871
the guy who made this.

>>115855
I don't know, but he's better than most "comedians"

Bo Burnham is to comedy what Father John Misty is to indie rock

>>116178
Bo Burnham: inside was the most cringey woke shit i've ever watched. There were two or three good songs, but the accountability one about his past makes me want him to kill himself.

>>116195
Welcome to the internet was the only good one imo, and was pretty goofy in some ways

>>116195
I really liked it. I don't know what to tell you. It was nice all around. The light work was really cool.

>>116195
I liked it for the most part, but that one was pretty bad. I have low standards for comedians though cause I just kind of hate standup comedy in general.

I'm not a zoomer so maybe it's just a generation/taste thing but to me he comes off as supremely pretentious and irony poisoned. He doesn't really do anything with either his comedy or music that is particularly interesting or new. His observations are extremely basic. The only thing I can say to his credit is that he's above average at writing lyrics. He honestly just screams privileged rich kid who was showered with praise for developing basic creative skills and it went to his head. But then he's self-aware about that and rather than doing something more interesting than what he does, he just adds a layer of ambiguously ironic angst about it. He's the perfect example of a mediocre talent who gets extremely overrated because today's media is so generally bereft of anything of quality.

Contrast Tim Minchin who has almost exactly the same shtick and may have more liberal politics but is a lot more talented as a musician and comedian and actually targets specific people who need to be criticized like the Catholic Church rather than lightly teasing white women for making derivative instagram posts which by the way was the absolute nadir of Inside and proves beyond all doubt for me that Burnham is just a libtard who learned a couple marxist buzzwords, because the reason that instagram posts are cringe and samey is a product of how the algorithm works and the fact that people post in order to get more views. It has nothing to do with white women being cringe, in fact there's actually a lot of variety of posts on instagram, with the derivative cringey posts being just one of those things that you see regularly because it's a Type Of Girl that everybody knows who posts those – women who are lacking validation and approval from their social circle and seeking it out through belonging to online trends. It would actually be pretty easy to criticize this from a materialist perspective which is something Burnham only flirts with in the special. In fact, beyond the wasted opportunity for criticism of instagram as a platform that would fit very well into the special, the White Woman's Instagram song is made worse by the fact that he's not even really doing a parody since he's just copying the imagery the song is about without putting a twist on it (other than the cliche-for-decades-before-he-was-even-born trope of "haha man wearing woman's clothing, how funny!"). It's not even a parody at that point, but a tribute piece. And I put this down to him being too much of a chickenshit to either target people who genuinely deserve mockery or to really mock the targets he does choose.

I'm not a fan of him to say the least but whatever, he found a way to make money that's not exploitative so good for him I guess.

>>116172
I really don't know

>>115855
he's just not very funny

>>116322
Ok this is maybe the one time some lib going "BLONALD BLUMPF" is right. He's not saying MUH DRUMPF is a fascist or too crass or upsetting his sensibilities. He's saying that Donald Trump is a cartoon character and it's unbelievable that someone so ridiculous is seen as a political leader.

>>116322
It sounds like he's trying to tell a Norm MacDonald joke but just can't get the delivery right, so he keeps repeating it like a retard until someone laughs

>>116340
I don't care much about stand up but Isnt norm more calm in his attidute? He has this I don't really care aura around him and it doesnt feel forced like with a lot of people trying that kind of thing.

>>116365
I was thinking more like his weekend update jokes, where he repeats the set up as the punchline

>>116311
check'd. Quality post, made me change the opinion I posted previously ITT