Bo Burnham's Inside: Out Now
(Content warning: discussions of suicide, which is doubly true for Inside itself) An interesting thing happened when Hannah Gadsby blew everyone away with Nanette , which is that I cried a lot. But in a wider context, a bunch of newly minted comedy scientists lurched out of their hovels with joke-ometers in hand to insist that Nanette was bad because it didn’t have enough jokes in it. I can already foresee the same obtuse criticism being levied against Bo Burnham’s new special, Inside , so I’m here telling you to please ignore those people until they dissolve back into slime. Inside was shot and edited by Burnham entirely within his house during the pandemic, so I promise that A) it is a piece of media about the pandemic that is actually good and B) most people (understandably) wouldn’t expect ...