Look Who’s Inside Again

Look Who’s Inside Again

Bo Burnham

In a COVID-19 lockdown, while trying to make a comedy special, Bo ruminates on how funny he can or can’t be when confined to one room with no-one there to aid him in production and filming. He also reflects on his comedic origins as a teenager writing songs alone in his room.

This idea of reminiscence leads onto the following segment in which he watches his first public video on the projector – My Whole Family – and then apologises for his past behavior in Problematic.

Omitted from the album version is the false start: Bo needs to sing the first three lines in one breath, a difficult task, but slightly falters on the last word, “room”. He angrily says “I took a big fucking breath” and has to start again from the top. At the end, he says “one more”, a symbol of his perfectionism that we see again from the same line at the end of 30.