Bo Burnham: Inside is the best comedy special, whatever that means

The Week I Review is a newsletter now: https://newsletter.theweekireview.com That New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/ar... Other places to find me: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/alecjkm.net Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/twir/ Discord:   / discord   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1J4eV... 0:00 - The Make Happy review I didn't write 3:08 - Inside is the best comedy special (What is a comedy special?) 9:52 - Bo Burnham until now (What is of a comedy special, some more?) 19:13 - What is Inside? 24:29 - A bad faith argument 27:35 - Pandemic art 29:01 - Depression content 33:07 - Inside is a lie (and that's okay) 35:44 - Inside is YouTube on Netflix 39:53 - I agree with Socko (an actual critique!) 43:09 - His (and my) place in the world 44:32 - (Musical) comedy 45:24 - Imagery as comedy 46:44 - Comedy without an audience 53:02 - Claps for self-awareness 54:01 - Is it funny?