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User Reviews for: Bo Burnham: Inside

tomossible
CONTAINS SPOILERS6/10  3 years ago
First of all, this is not a comedy special in a sense of giving you the most amount of laughs, but neither were Carlin ones and that's fine.

But if we judge it as sociopolitical video essay, than it is nothing special (pun intended). It is too long, boring at times and almost has nothing really novel or experimental about it. It is mostly beautifully and masterfully done, but maybe only half of the sketches are engaging and density is not that great.

Another problem for me is wokeness for the purpose of wokeness. "Straight white male" song is funny, because it is a wokeness for purpose of humour, casually dropping that [spoiler]you are ashamed of wearing costume of character from Middle Eastern folklore adapted by Disney on Halloween when you were 16[/spoiler] without additional message or humour element is just wokeness propaganda. Same goes for [spoiler] bashing Jeff Bezos [/spoiler].

I also could not find any clever use of language, double entendres, semantics or other linguistic constructs which I expect and especially like in Bo's jokes.

The essay did not challenge any ideas or people. It is 1.5 hour isolation meltdown of deprived mind of an individual who had never great mental health in general and COVID clearly did not help. It is probably a quite accurate description of reality from perspective of such mind, but is it useful, interesting, entertaining? I could not find a good reason to watch this or recommend it to somebody else.

6/10. It is not awful, but it is far from Bo's best work.
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Reply by The_Argentinian
3 years ago
@tomossible imagine being offended by a song about Jeff Bezos.
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Reply by tomossible
3 years ago
@the_argentinian I personally find at lot of business decisions done by Bezos morally questionable and think he deserves the bashing. What I am saying here is that "Jeffrey Bezos! You did it!" is not very well constructed joke.
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