Bo Burnham graduated high school in 2008 and has recently been named to Forbes 30 under 30 in 2015 for music and comedy. The young comedian started off on YouTube and has slowly become one of the most searched for comedian in the world. Bo Burnham’s first comedy special in 2008 was exactly what you expect for a high school comedian (Offensive humor and poop jokes) but you could still sense a feeling of meaning and “want-to-change-the-world” in him. His second comedy special “Words, Words, Words” was when we truly the show where you saw him focus on more social problems.

He made fun of traditional comedians who just rip on their wife and he decided to make a show that makes fun of the actual performance. This idea will be brought back up later. His third special “What.” Is the show that took the most time for him to release (almost 4 years) and it’s the moment where you see his genius views and the way he challenges your ideas of things you experience every day. He challenges the idea of fighting personalities as mental illness, religion, and most popularly the change in music popularity. The song Repeat Stuff is a testament to the way popstars take advantage of kids these days and how they decided to stop making real meaningful music and traded it in for a song that appeals to the largest demographics of people in order to make more money.

He had a song that makes a song about how we idolize this other worldly figure that has a holy plan for the world to be perfect and we use this plan to justify killing and war in order to hope that one day we go to paradise when we should spend our time on Earth to make it as close to paradise as we can. A few days ago Bo Burnham released his fourth special which is simply titled “Make Happy” and we see him once again take a strong social stance on the state of entertainment of the world.

He talks about how Country stopped being about the relatable American and conformed into wealthy Aristocrats who can sing a bassline and have learned the right words to say in the right order in order to make them appeal to people who are actually in the working class. He tackles the painful death of culture which is the Celebrity Lip Sync and the way it is creating an entertainment industry that doesn’t deserve the attention that we give it every single day. Bo Burnham is the voice of the people who exist outside the social dogma and don’t want to be a person who we aren’t because that is what we are.

He breaks away from his usual stage persona about fifteen minutes before the show ends and delivers a monologue that shows his problem with society. He talks about the way that everyone in the world is actually a performer and the way that the market has created social media has created a horrible mending of a performer and an audience. They’ve made the competitive side of human beings strong as we create this stigma that you are in control of your own social status and if we don’t then we are wrong and have no place in society. He urges each and every one of us to live life without an audience and to live life as if you aren’t being judged, as he says “Live life without an audience. “Because we all hope that one day we are going to be able to look back on our lives with a smile on our face and be our own satisfied audience.