Meet Bo Burnham, YouTube sensation (not of the Chris Crocker variety) and the latest member of the Judd Apatow family. This kid just turned 18 and he's already been tapped to write the music for — and star in — a new Apatow comedy that is being billed as "the anti-High School Musical." Sounds awesome already.
We did a little research, and it turns out dear Bo is no stranger to music: He has been writing songs for the past couple of years and performing them in his bedroom for a camera resting on a stack of books. Upon viewing some of these videos, we have officially fallen in love: He's crude and absurd, but he's charming in that "I went to an all-boys Catholic school and am therefore perfectly harmless" kind of way.
Click through for one of his fantastical raps.
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Where were the boys like that when I was 18? If there had been a kid like that at my high school, he would have been getting so much trim it's not even funny.
Oh fuck i did not want to think he was adorable.
but he's freaking adorable!
too bad he's gay huh whitney. :)
totally amazing kid though.
amusing. but disturbing. and not too clever, ya I get it dude, words sound the same but they're not the same. call me when he's 30.
He's unbearable.
Genius..!!
I was told that this little boy also have his account in the famous tall dating club__ tallloving.com___
joke or not??
So, he has no friends to hold the camera for him?
That kid's a badass! I'd let him touch it….
Never posted a comment, this kid is awesome!!!
Channeling an M.C. Paul Barman vibe…
Punkfunkmo
What?! You cannot even compare the two. This kid is just going for shock reactions, his whole shtick is too easy to see through. Clean cut good looking kid with a potty mouth who happens to rhyme, sure he might be influenced by Paul Barman…but he is nowhere close.
If there was a kid like that in my high school, I think I would have wanted to lose my virginity WAY earlier. He's fucking adorable! I love dorks, and he's a dork with flava'. Fo' sho' yo
what a loser. He's gonna suck by the time he's 21 and going downhill.
I kind of hate to say this about a teenager, but he sounds like the kind of guy who frequently inserts lima beans into his rectum. You know the type.
that's great, witty, comic writing for someone so young.
I'm probably one of the few people in the world who doesn't find the Judd Apatow oeuvre funny at all. It strikes me as sanctimonious and self-congratulatory.
I've been a fan of his for a while, he's awesome and it's about time someone took notice.
Ok, I love Will Ferrell and Judd Apatow and this kid's ok…but I was thinking about it, and isn't it sad that this is the sort of thing we describe as "amazing" and "witty" now?