Bo Burnham

Biography

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 four-year record deal with Comedy Central Records and released his debut EP, Bo fo Sho, in 2008. His first full-length album, Bo Burnham, was released the following year. At the age of 18, he became the youngest person to record a half-hour 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 Stand-up Showdown. His third stand-up 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 co-created and starred in the MTV television series Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous and released a book of poetry called Egghead: Or, You Can't 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 – First-Time Feature Film. In 2020, Burnham starred as Ryan Cooper in the film Promising Young Woman.

Most Known For

Conan

as Self

Parks and Recreation

as Chipp McCapp

We Bare Bears

as Andy Bangs / Additional Voices (voice)

The Soup

as Self

Key & Peele

as Lyle

Off Camera with Sam Jones

as Self

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

as Self

Promising Young Woman

as Ryan

Comedy Central Presents

The Big Sick

as CJ

Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous

as Zach Stone

Hall Pass

as Bartender

Rough Night

as Tobey

Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show

as Anonymous

The Green Room with Paul Provenza

as Self

Funny People

as Yo Teach Cast Member

Bo Burnham: Inside

as Self

American Virgin

as Rudy

Yo Teach...!

as Bo

Adventures in the Sin Bin

as Tony