bo burnham

Burnham performing in Tempe, Arizona

(September 20, 2008 (2008-09-20) by Phil Provencio) Background information Birth name Robert Burnham[1] Born August 1990 (age 18–19) Origin Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA Genre(s) Comedy, satire[2] Occupation(s) Singer–songwriter Instrument(s) Vocals, guitar, electric piano Years active 2006–present Label(s) Comedy Central Records Website boburnham.com

Bo Burnham (born August 1990 (1990-08)) is an American singer-songwriter and Internet celebrity. Writing comedic and satirical songs with a politically incorrect slant, Burnham's YouTube videos have received over 37 million hits as of March 2009[update],[3] and his first EP—Bo Fo Sho—was released in June 2008 by Comedy Central Records, and his first full-length self titled album was released by the same label in March 2009. Contents [hide] 1 Personal life 1.1 Home-grown music 2 Career 2.1 Controversy 2.2 Film 2.3 Performance credits 2.3.1 Discography 2.3.2 Filmography 3 References 4 External links //

Personal life

Bo Burnham was born the youngest of three in August 1990 to Patricia and Scott Burnham.[4][2]

In February 2008, Patricia was a staff nurse at her youngest's school, and Scott owned a North Shore, Massachusetts construction company. Their two older children, Pete and Samm, were concurrently enrolled in their third and second years at Cornell University and Suffolk Law School, respectively.[2]

Bo attended the all-boys' Catholic high school, St. John's Preparatory School in Danvers, Massachusetts; there he was on the school honor roll and involved in theatre and the campus ministry program. The school's assistant principal, Wendy Olson, remarked in a February 2008 interview that while "[t]he Bo on YouTube is not the Bo we see around here, [...] no one at St. John's is surprised at his creativity or that he's pursuing his dream, which is to make a name for himself." Burnham graduated from St. Johns in Spring 2008.[4][2]

Burnham applied to New York University (NYU), University of Southern California (USC), and Yale University,[2] and was accepted to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.[5] Although expected to begin attending in Autumn 2008,[6] he deferred his enrollment for a year to focus on his burgeoning media career.[1][7]

Home-grown music

Burnham was performing skits ("Bo Shows") in his home by age three, and grew up listening to boomer-generation comedians like George Carlin and Richard Pryor.[2]

As detailed by Burnham himself, 2006 was the beginning of what would become his musical comedy career. Rehearsing a play at St. John's that summer, Burnham began writing songs about teenage angst and debuting them to his fellow high school thespians. He then videotaped himself performing two songs and posted them to the video-sharing website YouTube in December 2006,[6] so that his older brother Pete could watch them from college. While response to his videos on YouTube ("My Whole Family... " and "My 'little' secret...")