Bo Burnham is back with a new one-man show full of his patented songs and wordplay, as well as haikus, dramatic readings, blasphemy, and so much more in his first hour-long special, shot live in his home town of Boston.
no dog death but the song “ironic” he says “my dog’s stomach was very upset so i put him in the car and we went to the vet” and in the song “rant” he said “my dog just had surgery if you could fix that first”
-yes to the above and also lines in the song “words words words” mention sexual assault (including lines about incest and “you r*ped my childhood”) -in the same song the other comment mentioned (one man shows), there’s a r*pe joke separate from the charlie brown joke. -in “rant” there are lines about prison r*pe and the pope sexually assaulting children -r*pe joke in “haikus/sonnet/shakespeare” -at the end in the song “love is” there’s a whole section about r*pe whistles -joke about being r*ped by a clown. -says “hate and r*pe and soulja boy” in rant. -in “binary reality” he mentions date r*pe
in “traditional stand-up” he’s pretending to be a traditional stand-up comic who is talking about his wife and he says “when she talks back, i hit her”
joke about a musician who jumps off a roof to kill himself in one part of the show (nothing is shown and the musician survives in the punchline of the joke)
“i met a fat chick and i fucked her in an elevator… it was wrong on so many levels” and he says the last part over and over bc apparently he was just that proud of that joke
f slur in the song “rant” and just homophobic jokes throughout the whole show use of queer as a slur in the song “words words words” calls shakespeare an “androgynous douche” in “haikus/sonnet/shakespeare” and also calls himself a “theatre queer” in that song (side note: there’s an aids joke in the song “words words words”, referring to it as a “butt virus”, and i’m not sure what category it should go in but it needs to be somewhere) (additionally, he mentions aids in the song “rant”)
“the radical feminists made my wife a man” “men and women, it’s black and white with an area of grey for h*rmaphrodites” “a h*rmaphrodite playing a keytar” -that one isn’t misgendering necessarily i just feel like it’s important to point out “you sent your only son to die for us, your ONLY son, but we’re all your children, so in your eyes, we’re a bunch of girls. so help us as we struggle with the temptations of lesbianism. amen.” (i kinda love that last bit (i’m a genderqueer lesbian) but it might be triggering for people) calls shakespeare an “androgynous douche” in rant: “transgendered substantiation” “noam chomsky wearing a strap on” (what’s funny)
-joke about tourette’s (song: what’s funny), -joke about down syndrome (“i’ll have you going down like you’ve grown an extra chromosome”) (song: oh bo), -another joke about down syndrome (“the average child of sarah palin has 46.2 chromosomes” song: theoretical dick jokes/statistics), -joke about bipolar (“my junk is bipolar it’ll split you in half”) (song: oh bo), -joke about mickey mouse keeping a “mentally handicapped dude as a pet” (pluto) (song: binary reality), -joke about having sex with a dyslexic girl (“met a girl named macy, i had sex with her all day, but she was dyslexic, so i ended up doing the ymca”) (song: words words words), -joke about stephen hawking (“find that hole like i’m stephen hawking” name said in a robotic voice to mimic hawking’s text-to-speech device) (song: words words words), -joke about add/adhd (“one out of every four kids with the initials add actually has it and four out of four kids with the initials adhd has an annoying self-righteous mother who wouldn’t just shut the fuck up and take her husband’s last name”) (song: theoretical dick jokes/statistics), -“what do you call a kid with no arms and an eye patch? names!” (song: traditional stand up)
just a lot of language like “whore”, “bitch”, “hoe”, “slut”, etc. yes he’s joking, yes it’s satire, he still says it and it’s not fun. also racist and homophobic and ableist jokes. (anti-asian jokes, anti-mexican jokes, slavery jokes, blaccent, reference to blackface, jokes about having a black girlfriend, joke about a black guy beating him up, “sex with a black chick”, africa jokes, “spot a little latino booty so big call it oprah’s ego we go do it through it she says ‘dios mía mi amigo’” my dude if you’re gonna be shitty like that at least get the spanish right)
- joke about jewish people in “what’s funny” hitler joke right after “what’s funny” -“a show about jews in nazi germany called ‘under the floorboards’” -“love is the holocaust: if you don’t die quick then you don’t get thinner” in a song played during the encore called “love is” -joke about anne frank (surprisingly not that offensive but could still be triggering, especially because the word “nazi” is included) -“hitler was there and so we’re all the jews so it got a little awkward” -joke about christian hell at the end of “haikus/sonnet/shakespeare” -“men are like nazis, ‘cause they both caused the holocaust” in the song “men & women” (not necessarily antisemetic but nazi mention and holocaust mention should be noted)
the song “ironic” ends with bo saying “my grandfather had alzheimer’s and one day we were…” then getting up and walking around looking confused (joke is that he can’t remember what they were doing)
-line in “what’s funny”: “and if i die happy the situation will be autoerotic axfyxiation” -line in “ironic”: “a little kid died from suffocation when he choked on a game piece from operation”
-there’s a misdirect joke while he’s talking about irony that goes, “something a little bit morbidly ironic, my grandma was a cancer, and she was actually killed… by a giant crab.” -in the song words words words he mentions prostate cancer.
“you r*ped my childhood” “molested by my uncle sam is that incest? i want you to smell my finger, does my nephew scent still linger?” “i spit gold bars ‘cause i was molested by my uncle midus gay dads blow pops another sucker oedipus was the first motherfucker” basically nothing shown just really bad jokes about incest all in the song “words words words” also there’s a joke about oedipus being the messiah in “rant” where he says “holy motherfucking christ”
-“if i had a dollar for every time a homeless person asked me for money, i’d still say no.” -“whinos at the eucharist station” (rant) -“wars and drugs and homeless people” (rant) -talks about people living in the streets (oh bo)
-jokes about his penis being really small in “theoretical dick jokes” -in the statistics part of the same song he talks about how men who google “average penis length” have really small penises -“old people’s skin sags because it is being pulled towards the underworld” (haikus/sonnets/shakespeare)