35
Years
15
Movies
12
TV Shows
7.3
Rating
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.
35
Years Old
15
Movies
12
TV Shows
7.3
Avg Rating
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.
2015
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.
Gender
Male
Birthday
August 21, 1990
Birthplace
Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As
Promising Young Woman
2020
Hall Pass
2011
YouTube Live
2008
Rough Night
2017
The Big Sick
2017
Funny People
2009
Bo Burnham: Words, Words, Words
2010
Bo Burnham: Inside
2021
American Virgin
2009
Bo Burnham: What.
2013
Adventures in the Sin Bin
2012
Bo Burnham: Make Happy
2016
Bo Burnham: The Inside Outtakes
2022
Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous
2013
Joe Mande's Award-Winning Comedy Special
2017