9/4/2023 0 Comments Inside out movie on netflix![]() And that can be a really - if you're not very good at it, that kind of thing, where there's a balance between sort of the sarcastic and ironic versus the very sincere can be really exhausting. And so I think he's always had that stubborn insistence on holding both of those things in his head at the same time. And if you go back and you look at a film like "Eighth Grade," he's always been really consumed by sort of the positive and the negative of social media and the internet and the life of of young kids. But also, it's clear that there's a lot on his mind. I think you're getting from him, you know, the entertainment element. And I'm just wondering, like, how would you describe that? MARTIN: You know, about that, because it does move into a deeply serious place at some point. That's a really clever, fun little rhyme in this, you know, kind of heavy song. He, for example, it starts off with him rhyming carpool karaoke, which is a segment on James Corden's show, with Steve Aoki, who's a DJ. But on the other hand, it is lyrically so playful. HOLMES: So, as you'll hear there, on the one hand, there's a lot of sadness in what he's talking about there. A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall. Here's a little bit of that.īURNHAM: (Singing) The live-action "Lion King," the Pepsi halftime show, 20,000 years of this, seven more to go. He has one where he's just sitting on a stool with an acoustic guitar describing our modern world. They may still be comical, but they have a different feel. You know, as silly as that one is, some of the other ones are more sedate. And the very format of it, as I said, it's very much this kind of sinister figure trying to get you interested. I think this is something we've all been thinking about. I mean, honestly, he's saying a lot right there. I've been singing that song for about a week NOW. And they're biting, but he's also very talented at these little catchy pop hooks. MARTIN: So as you can hear in that bit, he sounds something like other comedic songwriters who do these kind of parody or comedy songs, whether it's Tom Lehrer, Weird Al or whoever. HOLMES: And this is what the chorus of that song sounds like.īURNHAM: (Singing) Could I interest you in everything all of the time, a little bit of everything all of the time? Apathy's a tragedy, and boredom is a crime. Or DM a girl and groom her, do a Zoomer, find a tumor in her. And it has a lot of very clever and very quick wordplay about the specific things you can get on the internet.īURNHAM: (Singing) Start a rumor, buy a broom or send a death threat to a Boomer. So he has, for example, a song in which he adopts the persona of a kind of horror movie carnival barker, you might call it, who is trying to sell people the internet. HOLMES: I liked a bunch of the songs in this, and a lot of them are silly songs about the things that his comedy has already been concerned with for a long time, right? One of those is the internet itself. MARTIN: And I understand you were saying that it moves between genres. And it has a real feel of restlessness to it, almost like stream of consciousness. So when you get to the end of a song, it often just kind of cuts to something else. He doesn't really bother with any kind of transitions. And you can roughly think about this, I think, as a series of short videos that are mostly of him singing songs and that are sewn together with a little bit of other material, whether it's shots of him lying in bed or setting up the cameras. HOLMES: So before he was this celebrated filmmaker, Bo Burnham was himself a YouTube star. Now, you heard me struggling to describe what this is, so help me out. He had a role in the film "Promising Young Woman." And many people will probably remember his 2018 movie, "Eighth Grade." And then, of course, he had previous standup comedy specials. MARTIN: So Bo Burnham has had a lot of different identities lately. And she's with us now to tell us more about it. Whatever it is, NPR's Linda Holmes, host of Pop Culture Happy Hour, has reviewed it, and she liked it. But what is it exactly - a concert, a comedy special? Maybe we'll call it isolation theater. ![]() MARTIN: This special is titled, appropriately enough, "Inside," and it is streaming on Netflix now. (SOUNDBITE OF COMEDY SPECIAL, "BO BURNHAM: INSIDE")īO BURNHAM: (Singing) If you'd have told me a year ago that I'd be locked inside of my home, I would have told you a year ago, interesting, now leave me alone. But unlike many of us, Burnham was also hard at work on a one-man show directed, written and performed all by himself. And finally today, like many of us, writer, comedian and filmmaker Bo Burnham found himself isolated for much of last year - home alone, growing a beard, trying his best to stay sane. ![]()
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