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Good One

Bo Burnham's Can't Handle This

Good One

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week Bo Burnham, writer and director of the feature Eight Grade, was interviewed live at Vulturefest. Vulture senior editor Jesse David Fox and Bo discuss his auto-tuned rant that closed out Burnham's Netflix special titled 'Make Happy.' They dissect Bo's relationship to audience, comedy, authenticity and performance- and how that informed his vision as he makes his directorial debut. This week's episode is brought to you by Spotify! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

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Podcasts on Spotify, they're streaming right now. Hello, thank you for joining us for another episode of Good One, the

0:24.0

podcast where we talked to comedy creators about how they create comedy.

0:27.3

This week's guest is comedian and Rayner and director of 8th grade Bo

0:31.4

Firenome. The episode was recorded live in front of an audience at Fulture Festival, which felt perfect

0:36.1

for the joke Bow picked as ultimately it's about audiences and its relationship to them.

0:41.0

As we talked about in the interview, Bo was starting to get panic attacks every time

0:44.2

he performed and he wanted to figure out a way to convey this anxiety to the audience without alienating

0:49.0

them. The solution came from Kane West. Not directly, I should note.

0:54.0

No, Bo went to a Kane show and immediately started thinking about a way he could use Kane's

0:58.7

you know like famous autotune rants for comedy purposes.

1:02.3

The result was the closer of Bo's Make Happy Netflix Special.

1:05.4

I'm just so excited for you to hear this conversation because there's no one who thinks

1:09.6

about bits the same way Bo does with sort of the staging and the lighting and so on all

1:14.4

being taken to account from the jump. It's really something different. So here is

1:19.3

Bo Burnham. for like 20 minutes, it was kind of a ramp, kind of a song.

1:32.7

He had auto tune on his voice,

1:34.1

and there was an instrumental in the background.

1:36.3

Like this instrumental.

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