Bo Burnham: INSIDE - FaceTime with my Mom (REACTION) 

That’s good to know haha

yeah he's always played up the cliched 'absentee but still present dad" which kinda makes it funnier imo.

@@ISavant i think the 'emotionally distant but present' dad is just such a trope, that even if it's not true, it's an easy shorthand to build emotional rapport with the audience

Many comedians write family into their jokes, it just makes certain jokes work better. Great example of is Anthony Jeselnik, writes some HORRIBLE shit about his family, and he's said they love it lol. They encourage him to put them in his jokes. End of the day a lot of comedy is made up for the sake of the joke.

I think the character of Bo would less relatable and possibly less funny if he had the exact same background as Robert Burnham the actual guy. His being super real while also very much kidding is such a large part of his appeal. He's not a white woman with an Instagram but that song is totally about his trauma with performing.

Literally. 😂😂😂

@Imnotacop the reasoning behind the real reason: early film cameras had less sensitive lenses and it's more difficult and expensive to film at night, so all nighttime scenes were shot in daylight, with a blue filter used in post-processing to signify moonlight. so despite digital cameras and cheaper and more discreet lighting, some contemporary movies still code nighttime as blue, and most audiences intrinsically understand that blue means night

Also art history professors: S A D N E S S Which, when discussing Bo Burnham, is kind of a cheap guess.

the red in their eyes symbolises passion and aggression

I've started watching the bits in between each song after I react to the song. It definitely helps tie everything together.

@@ChrisReactsToThings I agree that watching it in order, plus the tidbits in-between are not necessarily important, but I feel like certain songs have more of an impact after watching the tidbits! Like some comments he makes in-between two of the songs really highlights his views on the internet and then tie in later when he sings "Welcome to the Internet." And a later song is, personally, way more hard hitting knowing all the in-between stuff you get from the special. And definitely watch his other stuff in whatever order you want. Personally, having been watching Bo for a long time having the context of his previous shows does kind of add to Inside, but at the same time, I feel you can totally watch his stuff out of order and get the same understanding after the fact instead of coming in already knowing. Or don't watch any of his other stuff if you don't want, it's all up to you and that's totally chill too XD But yea, he does have some other good stuff that you might enjoy seeing as your enjoying this. : )

Yep

He's already said that he watches them on his on time he does watch the other bits just not on recording

Oh, I totally know what you mean by the blur. I noticed it right away but was waiting to see if it bothered anyone else. I’ll fix it for next time!

@@ChrisReactsToThings I noticed and thought it was a somewhat cool depth of field effect. Maybe just a bit too much in the fact that the mic is partially in and shifts more in and out of focus. No need to get rid of it completely.

I wouldn't interpret it as being that way. As someone whose family is thousands of miles away, I often find myself super frustrated with the sheer irrelevance of the conversations that are held. I wouldn't be so quick to put that in the label of toxic masculinity, especially if you want to be taken seriously.

@@ianmay9372 Nah, I think talking about toxic masculinity is appropriate here. The line about the dad is about how they never had a deep conversation which makes sense with older men not being good at expressing themselves due to having to suppress their emotions.

Agreed. Its just embedded in us. I'm genuinely trying to force more emotional convos with my dad for that reason

@@ianmay9372 he's talking about the stereotype of the father that is still within the home, but is basically an absentee parent. it really is an aspect of toxic masculinity, so it's appropriate.

Two things can be true at once... men can have some unfair pressure to pretend to be more stoic than they actually are and also men are not generally as emotional as women. And that's okay.. we are different and our differences are good.

"I will say a group of words that I think no-one has ever said in that order ... 'I'm your father, and I loved your comedy show'"

More soon!

I plan on doing them all! Just had some personal stuff come up over the past few weeks (terrible timing), but I’ll be back on Thursday or Friday!

@@ChrisReactsToThings cool, hope you are doing okay. God bless!