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Bo Burnham is an American artist whose work period began in 2006. He is recognized in the Grammy Winners collection. His professional activities include roles associated with comedy, acoustic music, piano, and Comedy Rock. He maintains an official website at BOBURNHAM.COM.
His recorded works have achieved significant audience engagement, with a total number of viewers or listeners reaching 1,026,964,436. On Last.fm, he has 1,171,662 listeners and a playcount of 74,614,432. He also has 3,780,000 social media followers.
Bibliographic records list him as an author with two works, while other sources attribute five works to him. He is referenced by 756 other encyclopedia articles.
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Key facts
- Born
- Robert Pickering Burnham , ( 1990-08-21 ) August 21, 1990 (age 35) , Hamilton, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Occupations
- Stand-up comedian musician actor filmmaker YouTuber
- Years active
- 2006–present
- Medium
- Stand-up television film music
- Genres
- Black comedy musical comedy satire
- Instruments
- Vocals piano keyboards guitar
- Label
- Comedy Central
- Channel
- boburnham
- Subscribers
- 3.82 million
- Views
- 1.066 billion
- Website
- boburnham .com
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Official website
BOBURNHAM.COM
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Burnham
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Hamilton
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- New York University Tisch School of the Arts
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Field of work
- acting
- Genre
- comedy hip-hop
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.boburnham.com
- Image
- Bo Burnham at the Montclair Film Festival 2018 12.jpg
- Residence
- Los Angeles
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- Commons category
- Bo Burnham
- date of birth
- 1990-08-21
- birth name
- Robert Pickering Burnham
- start of work period
- 2006-00-00
- pseudonym
- Bo Burnham
- social media followers
- 3780000
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Robert Pickering Burnham
- unmarried partner
- Phoebe Bridgers
- influenced by
- "Weird Al" Yankovic
- member of
- Writers Guild of America, East
- number of viewers/listeners
- 1026964436
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert Pickering Burnham (born August 21, 1990 ) is an American comedian, actor, musician and filmmaker. Burnham's work combines elements of filmmaking with music, sketch, and stand-up comedy, commonly with a dramatic, satirical, or tragic twist that is often left open to interpretation.
In 2006, Burnham created a YouTube channel, where he uploaded videos of him playing comedic songs that he wrote, often featuring wordplay and taboo or dark subject matter. The videos quickly went viral, making him one of the earliest YouTube stars. He began creating albums featuring his songs, such as Bo fo Sho (2008) and the self-titled album Bo Burnham (2009).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bo Burnham” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.