[Industry Ghostwriter] Reacts to: Bo Burnham- Sad (REACTION)I was dying laughing but there’s a twist

[@logan3917]

“You can tell them anything, if you just make it funny, make it rhyme” - Bo Burnham

[@Alyumic]

"and if they still don't understand it then you run it one more time"

[@bookerwills8649]

@@Alyumic the juxtaposition of the first line and the second line in this bar is just amazing.

[@roick4585]

I feel like Bo's song 'Comedy' from his latest special Inside is a perfect follow-up for this video.

[@dawsonfarris7310]

This ^ Not enough people react to this song:/

[@jayrootly]

That's right!

[@cristhianzerimar]

My favorite song off of Inside along with That Funny Feeling.

[@dawsonfarris7310]

@@cristhianzerimar Agreed! It feels like it’s HIM writing. Same with All Eyes on Me. He’s telling us a big part of himself in that song and it’s great:)

[@somedudewatchintv5297]

That one might be better paired with left brain right brain

[@aerobolt256]

Bo's "Straight White Male" gives more tongue-in-cheek sociopolitical comedy

[@dauntingbutthereyougo6910]

"clever son of a bitch" - dying here - yes it's a double edged sword. Could we have #deep next please?

[@JohnMerrittMusic]

I think you nailed it here. He’s starts the song off with silly, sad situations that aren’t “real”, and then somewhat chastises the audience for laughing at them. He then comes to the realisation that being funny is the answer and proceeds to make the last verse absolutely real and sad and the audience completely falls for it. It’s one thing to laugh about a kitten jumping out a tree to hang itself, but the woman at her daughters funeral is tragic, heartbreaking, devastating, and he tricks them into laughing. It’s almost like he was setting up the joke to be on them, and if not them, on comedy in general.

[@shhsjjbbjs4224]

i don’t think they’re laughing at the sad things in the second half though. i think they’re laughing at the fact that he’s saying they’re funny, which is a completely different thing

[@its_dey_mate]

You misunderstand how Bo writes his songs/jokes. Similar to misconceptions about "Can't handle this" Bo NEVER antagonizes his audience. He made the people laugh at his "arc" and not the "jokes" he said in the last verse themselves.

[@godlyhax4172]

Idk the boy with the red hair was the realist pary

[@SnailHatan]

Oh, jesus. You’re taking this shit way too seriously. It’s a joke song made specifically to be funny. And it worked. What, you think crying over made up scenarios is the “moral” thing to do? Get over yourself

[@JohnMerrittMusic]

@@SnailHatan Says the person commenting on a year old KZbin post. If you don’t think Bo Burnham gets this deep, you don’t know Bo, yo.

[@cyrisssmith8830]

I played this to my high school classroom once. Me and my friend are both gingers and the ginger line made us both look at each other and shrug. We in the front of the class standing; I honestly think that might have heightened the humor for some of the people.

[@TheBeastlySolution]

Comedy exists to relieve tension, from the jesters in the middle ages (or whenever) to standup now. The best jokes are the ones you aren't supposed to laugh at.

[@becksimilian2955]

I saw this special live (I had won tickets and had no expectations going in).... I don't think Ive laughed that hard in my life. I don't even call what he does "comedy specials" cuz it's amazing music and is incredibly thoughtful and thought provoking... while also being hilarious

[@williamfurlan9176]

Hey man I'm not sure if it's been recommended yet but the final song from Make Happy his last special is "Are you happy?" It's got to be one of his absolute best songs. If you get around to it, I'm sure others would love it too, you'll be blown away I promise.

[@AChickandaDuck]

So great. I frequently use humor as a coping mechanism and this song resonates with me on a deep level. "What" is my favorite Bo special! The intro is amazing and so freaking weird

[@miscellaneousmay9439]

Me - an Alaskan, feeling stupid for not knowing it snows-snows in the midwest. Yo - Illinois, this weather normal?! 🥶💞

[@Fazquel]

Love your reactions and breakdowns Cliff, keep killing it

[@grant8653]

Many people laugh out loud when they are uncomfortable

[@christophermoore9436]

It’s not only irony and commentary on the industry, but also about comedy about escapism

[@Hey_Jamie]

I sing “heeey what a fucking idiot” at everything

[@FiveAcross]

Speaking of him being ironic.. I'll recommend Bo Burnham - Ironic

[@12thLevelSithLord]

I think that stab went beyond just the comedy industry and towards people in general. The internet has become a vehicle for the exact attitudes he's talking about. Anytime a tragedy happens, there'll be people making stupid jokes about it on twitter or reddit or wherever else because having empathy and compassion is lame now I guess.

[@kaelinvictus6039]

Whoopi would like to say hello

[@simonaaronson1968]

We joke about it because that's how a lot of people cope. I'm Jewish, Latino, and a sexual assault victim, and you will see me joke about those things all the time. It's a coping mechanism.

[@12thLevelSithLord]

@@simonaaronson1968 There is a difference between humor as coping mechanism and humor because they're an insensitive douche canoe that thinks caring about things is for losers. You can usually tell the difference between the two pretty easily, I think.

[@andrewharbison720]

@@12thLevelSithLord He says "tragedy will be joked about because having to much empathy will make you depressed 247. So while not everyone wanna make a joke, but if you wanna be empathically over everything you gonna stay sad your entire life so you gotta make jokes.

[@stfinalwrath]

Ya gotta do his song, Are You Happy, it's at the end of his special, Make Happy. It's a really deep track and it hits hard. It's worth checking out.

[@indieguy1988]

This is actually one of my favorites

[@kathyborthwick6738LakotaEmoji]

He plays the piano beautifully! Humor is a healer!

[@jaimethompson5511]

Loved the reaction as always You really NEED to react to IRONIC from Bo!

[@StephanieKrespach]

The comedic delivery on the really sad as hell and messed up stuff is also a dig at everyone telling comedians to use their pain in their jokes

[@lilithmotherofmonsters6055]

Oh boy, I'm always excited for your Bo reactions

[@JSeriously]

I’d love to see you react to some Stephen Lynch. Beelz. Craig. Little Tiny Moustache. To name a few of his songs.

[@theConquerersMama]

All great ones

[@mvhuninn420]

Pretty sure the audience understands what's going on.

[@DonnaPoynton.]

Thanks for more bo reactions xx subbed look forward to more xx

[@jamesrapp9778]

Hey bro you working hard! Cheers for that mate. Regards from Scotland 😎👌

[@mikemath9508]

my next bo burnham? fuckin', trevore moore, high in church

[@plops5271]

I just thought of fear and loathing in los vegas when you said lizard =) =)

[@laine1515]

Hmmm. I think they are reacting to his dark humour and satire when they are laughing at serious moments. These people know his work. They get it. You must also keep in mind sometimes the company filming add laugh tracks. A couple people said they were at the live recording and there was no laughter at the serious parts and it was added later.

[@anonnotanks3756]

BS

[@happyexhaustion3130]

'Sad' walked so 'Comedy' could run.

[@earache8640]

I've been waiting on this one! Gotta do "ironic" too

[@prodigalson1346]

Watch everything BO. Dude's a genius

[@davidc.lalnelawma4776]

You should do some Tim Minchin songs. I'd suggest You Grew On Me, Not Perfect, Prejudice or Drowned (Acoustic)

[@nicolejohnson1787]

Your Bo reactions are so on point!! Please do more Bo! You are my favorite. And I laugh so hard watching you react, even to songs I've heard so many times before, your laughter is contagious. Would love if you would react to "Comedy" from Inside.

[@Schmidhead516]

Bo’s original KZbin stuff doesn’t have those serious twists until after he started performing live and wrote “Art is Dead”

[@erinnpeterson]

As someone who jokes about their trauma so I don't drown in it, his song is spot on

[@ApfersPL]

it might be a weird choice but it's my favourite song of his xd

[@ZwienerZ]

You can tell at this moment in Bo’s life he just doesn’t give a shit. I think he’s struggling so mightily he’s just saying whatever he wants and doesn’t care what anybody thinks.

[@TracyKelton]

He literally called himself (and the audience) a sociopath.

[@Bob_thegreat]

YESS HE FINALLY REACTED TO THE BEST SONG WORLD ON FIRE

[@IssoufBa42]

My world's on fire 🔥

[@chones01]

It’s called Dressing up the monster. Laugh or you’ll cry kind of thing.

[@joelcarver8932]

Oh he's calling them out too.

[@jacobwalter1292]

Yeah when I heard I saw a woman at her daughter’s funeral I was like oh no, that is one of the saddest things

[@leons2937]

Finally, his best song in my opinion!

[@rebeccabrancaleone531]

I think listening to “comedy” is a good pairing for this one.

[@Tessimistic420]

I laugh when I cry, cry when I laugh 🎭🎭🎭🎭🎭🎭🎭🎭🎭🎭

[@ImPickled]

you should give bo's song #deep a listen

[@julialeslie6443]

Can you do Haikus/ Shakespeare? It's pretty clever

[@insertjokeh3r3]

Bo burnham #deep

[@keepitcoming7344]

Cliff as a (almost) day one sub You have to react to Anti-sociable by Craig Lucus bro....Its REALLY good Shot

[@awkwordone3305]

#deep too 😂👌

[@stephenmay2294]

DIRTY LOOPS - Rolling In The Deep (Adele Cover)

[@SB-tb8zi]

Great reaction, I liked your analysis! Him taking a stab at himself, I think it’s on point, even though never really saw it that way (a lot of his songs from that particular show are just silly and not meant to be so deep - no pun intended)

[@brandeethacker9960]

Another great reaction. Can you please react to Nova Rockafeller? “Jesus on My Neck”, “Batman”, “Wishing Well”, “Ghangis Khan”, or “Mi Yard” are all great. Pick anyone. We just want one done. Nova is a beast.

[@MatterShim]

No, he was actually joking about the holocaust and 9/11... because you are allowed to joke about things. They are terrible things of course but you can totally make jokes about it because that's what comedy is. Obviously he doesn't think those events are funny, but you can MAKE it funny. Like George Carlin said, "I believe you can joke about anything. It all depends on how you construct the joke. What the exaggeration is. Because every joke needs one exaggeration; every joke needs one thing to be way out of proportion."

[@atlast-we-are-here]

yeah bo's entire inside special and needs such a high level of geo-political knowledge and awareness but god does it hit

[@pumpkingamebox]

Bo is the worlds greatest cynic right now. As far as I know. Of course his also cynical audience would laugh at the darkest of humor. Plus comedy does come from tragedy. Is it offensive? For sure. Should anyone care? That’s the question. “Are you joking at a time like this?”

[@LedZep207]

3.14 apple pie

[@bethsadler3617]

Been asking for it for weeks! We have to get more ppl to vote this one up, bc you KNOW Cliff will like it once he hears it

[@bethsadler3617]

3.14 APPLE PI PLEASE

[@BlahBlahWoofWoof12]

You should listen to What's Funny.... Ironic.... & My Whole Family

[@dauntingbutthereyougo6910]

Absolutely What's Funny

[@GrahamChapman]

About 15 years ago or so I read a (VERY nsfw) webcomic titled "Nana's everyday life." It was a fan-comic starring Nana, a girl from a particularly brutal (and very nsfw) manga/anime titled "Elfen Lied"... In this comic, Nana regularly got abused, mutilated, raped (pedobear made an early appearance) and was even killed a few times, and somehow the guy who made the comic had -- much like the maniacs behind the far more successful Cyanide & Happiness -- such a keen sense of where the line between "comedy" and "tragedy" was drawn that, ultimately, the comic could only be regarded as a deconstruction of the concepts of black comedy itself: It started out so horribly cruel that you'd laugh at how it crossed the line twice... then it became so horribly cruel that you'd laugh at just how far over the line it went... then it became so horribly cruel that you'd laugh in just plain shock at how dark it had become... and then it became so horribly cruel that you stopped laughing and started crying instead... About a dozen pages into the comic the "punchline" panel for one strip featuring one of Nana's many rapes was just the text *"IS THIS COMEDY?"* And unless you were a sadist or a complete sociopath, that was about when you started to get introspective and realized that maybe you shouldn't be laughing at any of this kinda shit...

[@Tulip_bip]

i hate how dark humour has become "offensive and gruesome for the sake of being shocking". that's not what dark humour is at all, that's just disgusting. bo's work is a good example of actual dark humour. like in this song where he lists things that are sad but described in a comedic way, and then ends it with a message of how people like to make sad things funny so they don't need to feel empathetic all the time

[@GrahamChapman]

@@Tulip_bip I hate how the anti-PC crowd have attempted (with some success, horribly enough) to turn decency, respect and the concept of having standards in regards to what's okay to laugh at and what is not into something ugly... I suppose that's roughly the same crowd and the same thing as you have issues with? People who regard the "point" of comedy to be to use it in order to punch down...

[@ahunterohio]

Glad to see your reacting to more of his earlier stuffy would love to see you react to his original KZbin stuff too

[@peterlewis2178]

Not big on dark comedy, huh? To me, the more tragic, hard hitting, and real it is, the funnier it is. It's not the same kind of funny, not the feel-good kind, but a sort of melancholy funny. Sometimes life is just so perfectly and overbearingly tragic that the only instinct you have is to laugh hysterically. If you've never felt that way, and don't understand it, then I'm not sure what anyone could even say to explain it. But that's why a lot of people laugh at those parts. It's not because they aren't fully registering what he's saying (though perhaps some aren't), but because they _are_ registering it. And it's so horrible that it's hilarious.

[@peterlewis2178]

Of course, there's definitely commentary in this song about how comedy often takes tragedy and makes fun of it in a way that minimizes the reality of it, and how that can be a bad thing. But the underlying humor in this song behind that façade isn't doing that, because it's making it fully clear just how horrible these things are.

[@Centsational_]

Do "straight while male" please!!

[@Pir-o]

You should react to videos made by Egoraptor / Starbomb / Ninja Sex Party. They have great animated songs with funny lyrics. For example - Luigi's Ballad, Sickest Mario Party, a bunch of zelda songs and much more

[@adriansensei1428]

React to Straight white man

[@tabithascriven9441]

Woot!!!

[@marsjaninka7261]

[@aliamvickersfan2388]

Can you pls react to bo burnham welcome to youtube or/and #deep

[@WolfFiddlerguy6285]

Plz react to bo Burnham song called comedy next

[@ngahuiarongo596]

Straight white male is a good one from bo burnham

[@cellgames45]

Check out The Bidding By Tally Hall

[@sickturret3587]

he was not taking a stab on himself sir. none at all to be exact. the fact that we are no longer able to carry real sh*t shouldn't be a comics problem they are on the stage just to make us laugh. we should be the ones caring more indeed.

[@hughjass2075]

Captions are horrible for this one

[@svenhund]

bro, you ever feel how fake you look writing "Industry ghost writer" on all ur videos?

[@reggaelion86]

Something to understand about Bo: his songs are generally double or triple meaning. Listening to his songs is my personal therapist, lol

[@АнтонинКозарь]

r839cw VUN.RENT