Stand-Up Comedy Historian

I just watched the first two episodes of the Clone High reboot, and wow...hearing the Drowning Pools revamped theme song took me straight back to watching the show in college.

How has it been 20 years?! God, I'm so old haha

The voice acting is still top-notch (I'm not sold on the new Cleo yet, but Will Forte continues to nail the sweetness of Abe Lincoln in the original). I am also so happy they included Christa Miller by having her voice Candide Sampson, and the newest clones are working well for me so far.

By the way, Bo Burnham would be a PERFECT Abe...well, his younger self would have been as cute and awkward as Lincoln haha

Ayo Edebiri is fantastic as Harriet Tubman as well. Fun fact: She's good friends with Jerrod Carmichael and had her picture taken with Bo and Lorene last summer at the premiere of The Bear.

To finish out the month of May, I've just posted 20 of the best scholarly articles I've found about Bo Burnham and his works.

If you're planning to analyze Inside or Eighth Grade, consider this your works cited page! 🙌🏼

As a reminder, my newly revamped website will be live in TWO days, and I'll have a new interview up at that time with Bo scholar Quentin Stuckey or Stucks.

Here's his YouTube channel, and here is his excellent presentation on Inside that he gave at a conference in lieu of his thesis defense. You'll be able to read all about that thesis and Quentin's journal articles when #InsideTurnsTwo on Tuesday!

To celebrate the long Memorial Day weekend, I've posted the first four chapters of my Cool Kids' Cooking Saga in which I compare each section to the corresponding ring of Hell in Dante's The Inferno. Fun stuff!

You can find the first one here.

As a reminder, I wrote these from 2007 to 2010 (and never finished...I'm the queen of procrastination lol). Since then, I've become much more liberal, am now a feminist, came out as bisexual, and I don't get the same joy tearing apart idiots that I did in my youth (therapy helped me realize my narcissistic conservative mother was causing me to hate women).

There is also language that might not be entirely PC in this day and age. Again, I was 24-26 and living away from my very strict Catholic parents for the first time since college...I had a LOT of growing up to do!

Anyway, I hope you enjoy my first attempts at comedic writing, and I'll soon be writing about the remaining 5 chapters (hey, 13 years later isn't that bad, right?).

Don't forget that my website will also be fully revamped on 5/30 when #InsideTurnsTwo. There will be new articles up and a brand-new interview with Quentin Stuckey who wrote his Master's thesis about Bo and his special.

While researching Bo and Phoebe’s friendship for my ongoing timeline, I had also compiled a list of interesting facts the two artists have in common.

Here’s the 10 best facts I could find about the pair. Enjoy!

Here are three fun ones from the list:

1. Phoebe’s mother did stand-up comedy! 🤯

Per Phoebe's New Yorker profile, her mom Jamie started doing shows after divorcing from Phoebe's dad Tony.

I'm sure Bo could help her out—he began doing stand-up when he was just a teenager!

2. Both have worn skeleton suits while performing 💀

3. They adore small dogs!

Phoebe's beloved pug Max passed away in 2019, and Bo's Bruce is living with Lorene after their breakup.

Don't be too surprised if Phoebo adopt a new puppy of their own soon!

I'm going to take this as confirmation that they are official (and yes, it's going in my Bo and Phoebe post) ✌🏼

You say the whole world's ending, honey, it already did

You're not gonna slow it, Heaven knows you tried

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Clearly what I need is a cure for obsessing over ridiculously tall men with luscious hair and cute beards. 

Did you see Annette? He plays a depressed comedian whose act is suspiciously Burnhamesque haha