Here’s a sneak peek to next week’s theme for “Zach Stone is Gonna be Famous”
The sex wikipedia page is up on his computer omg
“I have a bit in my act that sort of makes fun of Justin Bieber and some of these young pop stars. Basically, it’s a song and it mocks the way that those songs are written…What the songs basically do is they’re love songs to girls and they describe the girls as vaguely as they possibly can so that every girl can think that the song’s about them…The thing is, that seems sort of harmless, but then it kind of gets a little darker and sort of accuses those young pop artists of being part of this cycle where girls read magazines, feel terrible about themselves because it says, you know, “you should be skinnier,” “you should be prettier,” they feel terrible, and then these pop stars tell them that they’re perfect and that they’re beautiful in the song so they buy the songs and then the pop star’s on the cover of the magazine so they buy a magazine again…it’s sort of just like this vicious cycle. And I basically, like…it’s sort of implied that he’s working for Satan or whatever…”
-Bo Burnham, on possibly having offended Justin Bieber at a recent show
So we saw Bo Burnham last night. He was incredible, funny, smart, and so talented. I want to see him live again. I have never laughed so hard in my life. Totally worth the drive to Nashville.
Gifs of the intro to Bo Burnhams new show “What” - (X)
