Buzz Watch: Bo Burnham is a Diamond in the Rough

Authored by Jay Baage on September 11, 2007 - 6:12am.

The talented 17-year-old Bo Burnham from Massachusetts deserves a break. His funny homemade videos are getting hundreds of thousands of hits on Break, Youtube, MySpace and others. Either you find him hilarious or just offensive and annoying, but it's impossible to ignore him. In a new media world where you have to prove yourself on the Internet, Bo Burnham has the goods. He has developed a cult-like following online, but so far he has not been discovered by big media (tip to daring bookers at Late Night with David Letterman or Conan O’Brian etc.)

Comments online at sites such as Digg, where people go to discover and share content from anywhere on the web, says it all:

“This is way better than any Producer driven shit on American Idol.... I had better see this guy on Comedy Central here in a little bit.”

”This is the kind of talent that keeps me sitting on front of my computer and using sites like Digg.”

” It's very rare to find a teenager who can make me laugh. 99% of the time they say something stupid as filler which ends up ruining the entire video. However, this guy's lyrics were perfect! The face expressions were priceless. Very well thought out. I really hope he uses his talent and makes something of himself.”

Watch a selection of Bo’s best videos here. I’m pretty sure we’ll see much more of this kid in the future. Remember where you read it first.

Joakim Baage

Published in DMW Daily, September 11, 2007

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You need to update this. He got booked by comedy central.

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