Bo Burnham: What.
Movie • 2013 • Comedy
ReportLeft brain and right brain duke it out and then belt out a tune in comedian Bo Burnham's quick and clever one-man show. As intelligent as he is lanky, Burnham cynically pokes at pop entertainment while offering unadulterated showmanship of his own.
This movie contains 8 potentially triggering events.
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no just r*pe jokes
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Is a minor sexualized?
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-in beating off in a minor: “that was beating off in a minor—the key, not the felony.” *audience applauds* “nice applause break for child r*pe”
-in out of the abyss: joke about a creepy old man trying to catch a kid with a candy bar, and for the show in madison, wisconsin (the show where the album is recorded), bo mimes like he was catching the 14 year old kid in the audience he had just talked to
-also in out of the abyss: “at first i was uncomfortable leaving him alone with my child, but then i saw his moustache! phew!”
-he does a lot of things in his show that are very sexual or directed at his audience while also emphasising his audience is mostly preteen girls/young fans/etc
(i’m a huge bo fan guys don’t come for me that’s why i’m doing this, but anything pre-inside is extremely yikesy and i wouldn’t recommend it. his specials being satire doesn’t make the jokes not offensive or triggering.)
-in out of the abyss: joke about a creepy old man trying to catch a kid with a candy bar, and for the show in madison, wisconsin (the show where the album is recorded), bo mimes like he was catching the 14 year old kid in the audience he had just talked to
-also in out of the abyss: “at first i was uncomfortable leaving him alone with my child, but then i saw his moustache! phew!”
-he does a lot of things in his show that are very sexual or directed at his audience while also emphasising his audience is mostly preteen girls/young fans/etc
(i’m a huge bo fan guys don’t come for me that’s why i’m doing this, but anything pre-inside is extremely yikesy and i wouldn’t recommend it. his specials being satire doesn’t make the jokes not offensive or triggering.)
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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-in beating off in a minor: “that was beating off in a minor—the key, not the felony.” *audience applauds* “nice applause break for child r*pe”
-in andy the frog: joke about a frog being arrested for tadpole porn
-in out of the abyss: joke about a creepy old man trying to catch a kid with a candy bar, and on the album, bo directs this to a 14 year old kid in the audience he had just talked to
-in andy the frog: joke about a frog being arrested for tadpole porn
-in out of the abyss: joke about a creepy old man trying to catch a kid with a candy bar, and on the album, bo directs this to a 14 year old kid in the audience he had just talked to
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Addiction
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-cocaine joke at the end of his intro
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Is there addiction?
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on album, mentions a.a. in the song “hell of a ride”
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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on album, mentions a.a. in the song “hell of a ride”
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Animal
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R.I.P Pentacorn
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pentacorn in “intro” and andy the frog in “andy the frog” and a turtle in “andy the frog”
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Does a cat die?
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“i saw a kitten stuck in a tree then the kitten jumped off and he hung itself”
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SenMithrarin
Not exactly but one joke is when bo is fake jerking it to music and he says “that was me beating off in A minor. The chord, not the felony”
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Is there amputation?
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“i saw a flyer for a lost dog and the dog didn’t have any legs” -sad
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Is there a hanging?
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“i saw a kitten stuck in a tree, then the kitten jumped off and he hung itself” -sad
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Is someone tortured?
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one of his poems could be considered torture though
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Is there eye mutilation?
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“i saw a man with only one eye in a 3d movie”
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Children
Does a kid die?
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Small mention of a mother at her child's funeral. And it's a standup so it's mentioned jokingly
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Family
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“i saw a little boy drop his ice cream cone directly on his mother’s corpse” -sad
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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on the album, he says “my stomach in gonna upchuck” in the song “hell of a ride”, but that’s it
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Does someone spit?
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spits water in intro song
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Medical
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no but in “left brain right brain” the sounds and his motions resemble ect because it’s “splitting his neurological functions”
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There’s a line in “Sad” that says “just picture a depressed onion cutting it’s self” and in the album (not included in the netflix special) there’s a song called “Nerds” where it talks about a girl who is an outcast and says “then she got numb and only felt when she knelt and cut”
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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-the body descriptions in “i fuck sluts” could be
-“martha was ugly like a shaven baboon” (poems)
-“martha was ugly like a shaven baboon” (poems)
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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In the album (not included in the netflix special) there’s a line in “Eff” where it says that the fashion industry “takes poor fat teen chicks and makes them turn bulimic”
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There's a small mention of someone hanging themself
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“if the artistic process is a birth canal then i am a freshly jellied kid: come witness my crowning”-#deep
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Prejudice
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oh god yes constant. using this section to just list the homophobic jokes.
-intro: “a fairy so beautiful he felt proud of being called one in high school”
-“is he skiiing or is he in a gay porn” x5
-at the end of the intro song he yells “FELLAS DONT YOU HATE IT WHEN YOU’RE SUCKING A GUY’S DICK AND HE ENDS UP BEING A F*GGOT! AM I RIGHT? THESE FUCKING F*GGOTS WITH THEIR TASTY DICKS!” and he says it very agressivly and loudly and it is sooo triggering and hearing the audience laugh makes it worse
-“my father recently said i act too gay on stage, i said, ‘really dad? PROVE IT!’” and he throws glitter into the air and says “prove it” with a stereotypical gay male inflection
-after wdidln he talks about his mom describing gay sex to him as gay men shitting on the bible (surprisingly not that offensive as it’s more mocking of homophobes than of gay people but it’s notable)
-in “from god’s perspective”: “i sent gays to fix overpopulation, and boy did that go well” (again mocking homophobia as opposed to queer people)
-the final song (we think we know you) has f*g said over and over again the entire song it’s so upsetting (f*g is said 52 times in the song! that makes it a total of 54 f slurs in the show! we get it bo! you like saying that word!) (if you count the whole album he says it 60 times because of “nerds”)
-intro: “a fairy so beautiful he felt proud of being called one in high school”
-“is he skiiing or is he in a gay porn” x5
-at the end of the intro song he yells “FELLAS DONT YOU HATE IT WHEN YOU’RE SUCKING A GUY’S DICK AND HE ENDS UP BEING A F*GGOT! AM I RIGHT? THESE FUCKING F*GGOTS WITH THEIR TASTY DICKS!” and he says it very agressivly and loudly and it is sooo triggering and hearing the audience laugh makes it worse
-“my father recently said i act too gay on stage, i said, ‘really dad? PROVE IT!’” and he throws glitter into the air and says “prove it” with a stereotypical gay male inflection
-after wdidln he talks about his mom describing gay sex to him as gay men shitting on the bible (surprisingly not that offensive as it’s more mocking of homophobes than of gay people but it’s notable)
-in “from god’s perspective”: “i sent gays to fix overpopulation, and boy did that go well” (again mocking homophobia as opposed to queer people)
-the final song (we think we know you) has f*g said over and over again the entire song it’s so upsetting (f*g is said 52 times in the song! that makes it a total of 54 f slurs in the show! we get it bo! you like saying that word!) (if you count the whole album he says it 60 times because of “nerds”)
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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-calls himself a sociopath in “sad”
-calls right brain insane in “left brain right brain”
-calls a woman named martha a psycho in “poems”
-joke about little girls who don’t have arms in “repeat stuff”
-on the album he says the word spastic a bunch of times in the song “nerds” but not in the actual special
-calls right brain insane in “left brain right brain”
-calls a woman named martha a psycho in “poems”
-joke about little girls who don’t have arms in “repeat stuff”
-on the album he says the word spastic a bunch of times in the song “nerds” but not in the actual special
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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at the beginning of “left brain, right brain” a disembodied voice says the n word
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-holocaust mention in “sad”
-“don’t be a jew” in “andy the frog”
-nazi salute in “repeat stuff”
-“don’t be a jew” in “andy the frog”
-nazi salute in “repeat stuff”
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Does an LGBT person die?
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do left brain right brain count?
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Are there fat jokes?
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in “i fuck sluts” he says stuff that could be considered a fat joke, and also on the album in “nerds” he says “spastic fat chick” a bunch of times. he doesn’t say it as a joke, he thinks he’s being an ally to different groups that are often bullied in school, but it’s still triggering and not ok.
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Is there hate speech?
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-“i fuck sluts” poem
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Sex
Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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he talks about how magic isn’t real in the intro song, if that counts
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Does it have a sad ending?
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ending with “we think we know you” is incredibly sad. it’s a sad song.
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“i want you to somehow survive a terrible car crash then someone not survive a small fender bender on the way back from the hospital” -poems
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Is someone hit by a car?
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“i saw an old man get hit by a train” -sad
talks about wanting to strap someone to a bed on nails and put it on the hood of his car and drive over speed bumps during an earthquake -poems
talks about wanting to strap someone to a bed on nails and put it on the hood of his car and drive over speed bumps during an earthquake -poems
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mention of drowning in “#deep”
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Is there gun violence?
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Miming gun with gun sounds.
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