{"id":9574,"date":"2016-01-14T14:16:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T19:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=9574"},"modified":"2016-01-14T14:31:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T19:31:57","slug":"top-50-stand-up-comedians-no-12-bo-burnham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2016\/01\/14\/top-50-stand-up-comedians-no-12-bo-burnham\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 50 Stand-Up Comedians: No. 12 &#8211; Bo Burnham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9579\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/boburnham.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9579\" class=\"wp-image-9579 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/boburnham.jpg\" alt=\"boburnham\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/boburnham.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/boburnham-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/boburnham-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of the &#8220;Bo Burnham&#8217;s Sad from what&#8221; video posted on YouTube.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">12. Bo Burnham<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He will offend relativists because he has a strong point of view and he will offend those who prefer not to deal with an onslaught of crude language or sexual and religious themes, but Bo Burnham is a better musician than most musicians and a better comedian than most comedians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His rhymes are at least twice as tight and layered as anything Kanye West has laid down or anything Jay-Z has put out since the 90s. His introspective lyrics are more intricate and provocative that anything coming out of the hip-hop community in the mainstream with the possible exception of Kendrick Lamar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the same way that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Daily Show<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> became both one of the funniest programs on TV and one of the most thought provoking and informative as well, Burnham\u2019s comedy walks that tightrope between hilarious, challenging, and kinda sad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He is right, this song isn\u2019t really funny, but the first time I heard \u201cArt is Dead\u201d it shot through the very core of my soul &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Eo9pU1q8sy8\" target=\"_blank\">the video can be accessed here<\/a>\u00a0and you can see for yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a mostly failing musician and natural attention whore, I found myself paying this piece the highest compliment a musician can &#8211; I wish I\u2019d written that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Burnham has another song that felt like he ripped straight out of my heart. I can\u2019t always explain in a coherent fashion why I think some pop art can actually be dangerous. Now I just send people this link:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Repeat stuff:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QCVGpvzcHko?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those five minutes represent the best satire of our current society that I have come across.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He doesn\u2019t just do music, dropping plenty of one-liners in between songs and even taking a few moments to satirize more traditional comedy. All potential critiques of gimmick are voided when Burnham can deliver Shakespeare better than most actors and then do comedic slam-poetry in his style. The only reason he isn\u2019t in my Top 10 is that he is just a little too young to have amassed a huge body of work. But both <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Words Words Words<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> rank in my Top 15 stand alone comedy specials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bo Burnham is smart, pointed satire at its best &#8211; it may not be for everybody, but for those who empathize with his perspective, watching him is beyond cathartic, it\u2019s like finally finding somewhere you belong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rant:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6hCQLEIWadk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12. Bo Burnham He will offend relativists because he has a strong point of view and he will offend those who prefer not to deal with an onslaught of crude language or sexual and religious themes, but Bo Burnham is a better musician than most musicians and a better comedian than most comedians. His rhymes<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2016\/01\/14\/top-50-stand-up-comedians-no-12-bo-burnham\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":9579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[335,1446,2771],"class_list":{"0":"post-9574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bo-burnham","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-stand-up-comedy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}