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Bo Burnham
Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA
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,…
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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.
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2025
Eddington
Movie Thanks
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2023
Past Lives
Movie Thanks
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2023
Beau Is Afraid
Movie Thanks
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2022
Kate Berlant: Cinnamon in the Wind
Movie Director
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2022
Bo Burnham: The Inside Outtakes
Movie Self
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2022
Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel
Movie Director
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2021
Bo Burnham: Inside
Movie Self
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2020
Promising Young Woman
Movie Ryan
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2020
Whitmer Thomas: The Golden One
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
Lil Rel Howery: Live in Crenshaw
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
Sermon on the Mount
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
Home Videos
Movie Executive Producer
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2018
Chris Rock: Tamborine
Movie Director
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2018
Eighth Grade
Movie Director
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2017
Joe Mande's Award-Winning Comedy Special
Movie Self
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2017
Rough Night
Movie Tobey
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2017
The Big Sick
Movie CJ
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2017
Jerrod Carmichael: 8
Movie Director
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2016
Bo Burnham: Make Happy
Movie Self
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2015
We Bare Bears
TV show Andy Bangs / Additional Voices (voice)
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2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV show Self
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2014
Off Camera with Sam Jones
TV show Self
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2013
Bo Burnham: What.
Movie Self
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2013
Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous
TV show Zach Stone
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2012
Adventures in the Sin Bin
Movie Tony
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2012
Key & Peele
TV show Lyle
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2011
Hall Pass
Movie Bartender
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2010
Conan
TV show Self
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2010
Bo Burnham: Words, Words, Words
Movie Self
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2010
The Green Room with Paul Provenza
TV show Self
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2009
American Virgin
Movie Rudy
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2009
Funny People
Movie Yo Teach Cast Member
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2009
Yo Teach...!
TV show Bo
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2009
Parks and Recreation
TV show Chipp McCapp
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2008
YouTube Live
Movie Himself
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2004
The Soup
TV show Self
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1998
Comedy Central Presents
TV show Self
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Outside
Movie Director
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Gay Kid and Fat Chick
Movie Writer
