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Bo Burnham film Eighth Grade keeps winning awards; adds WGA win

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Bo Burnham shocked Hollywood with another surprising win for Eighth Grade. Burnham won the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Original Screenplay, with just a week until the Oscars. The winner of this award is often a contender for Best Picture at the Oscars, so Burnham’s win was especially meaningful. Eighth Grade wins despite 0 Oscar nominations The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences did not nominate

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Comedy winners at the 2019 Writers Guild Awards

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Congrats to Bo Burnham and the rest of this year’s WGA winners from the Writers Guild, announced Sunday night. Burnham jokingly pointed out in his acceptance speech that all the “losers” in his category would just have to go and have …

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Comedians threaten boycott of New Yorker Fest over invite to Steve Bannon; magazine rescinds invite

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And how was your Labor Day? The New Yorker Fest announced its star-studded list of attendees for one-on-one talks Oct. 5-7, 2018, and one name stopped several of the stars from attending. Steve Bannon, the co-founder of Cambridge Analytica, the data-mining firm that helped Donald Trump win the White House while also deceiving Facebook (and […]

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Bo Burnham reflects on his own youth and his wonderful new movie, “Eighth Grade”

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Bo Burnham grew up in front of the world, thanks to YouTube. Burnham now has translated that experience to 2018 and to everyone else, with his wonderful new movie, Eighth Grade. It premiered at Sundance in January, and goes nationwide this weekend. I enjoyed the opportunity to sit down with Bo for my podcast, Last […]

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Looking into the eyes of Bo Burnham: A discussion about his new film “Eighth Grade”

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I sit across from him in a hotel room suite at Chicago’s Waldorf Astoria. We are both slouching into our… MORE

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Episode #200: Bo Burnham

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Bo Burnham is the quintessential YouTube comedy star. While still a teen, Bo went from recording funny songs in his bedroom to best-selling artist with Comedy Central. Burnham become a successful touring stand-up comedian as well as an actor, appearing on the big screen in Funny People and The Big Sick, and starring on the […]

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Check Out the Trailer for Bo Burnham’s Feature Directorial Debut ‘Eighth Grade’

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In addition to directing standup specials, Bo Burnham made his feature directorial debut this year when his film Eighth Grade premiered at Sundance to rave reviews (and it currently boasts a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score), and today the trailer hit the internet. Starring Elsie Fisher, the movie centers on a 13-year-old named Kayla, who “endures the tidal wave […]

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Bo Burnham and the Art of the Standup Special

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When Chris Rock abruptly announced yesterday that Tamborine — his first of two intensely anticipated Netflix specials — would be premiering in less than 24 hours, comedy fans let out a collective “Finally!” Not only was Rock’s record-breaking deal with the streaming goliath announced all the way back in 2016, but he spent the majority […]

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Don’t wait for the punchline: Jordan Brookes and comedy’s rule breakers

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Shows that delight in flouting conventions, like Brookes’s Body of Work, make us question our expectations of standup – including whether it should all be funny

An offstage voice announces his entrance, but our host refuses to appear. That’s the first shredded expectation in Jordan Brookes’s show Body of Work, which opens at Soho theatre in London this week. Brookes is not the first to upend conventions about how comedians take the stage. Doctor Brown fans will remember his elongated entrances, tangled up in curtains, and many comics get a quick laugh from confessing that the offstage announcer is usually, in fact, the comic themselves. But when Brookes’s show debuted in Edinburgh this summer, critics – myself included – hailed the way that it demolishes so many conventions of comedy.

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Big Hearts, Big Laughs in Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon’s cinematic love story, “The Big Sick”

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Not everything needs to be a period piece. On the small screen, both Marc Maron and Pete Holmes brought their recent pasts into present-day so they could have the best of both worlds for their comedic purposes in IFC’s Maron and HBO’s Crashing. Similarly, when Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon set about putting the […]

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