Synopsis
Bo Burnham: Make Happy (2016) is a Netflix stand-up special you can watch online on iFILM, written and directed by Bo Burnham with Christopher Storer behind the camera. Over sixty minutes in front of a live audience, Burnham moves through original songs and comedy that cover death, sexuality, mental illness, the hollow promises of pop culture, and Pringles cans — genre-hopping fast enough that nothing overstays its welcome.
The central question running through the whole show is what it means to make other people happy when you are not doing well yourself. The final ten minutes drop the ironic distance and go somewhere genuinely uncomfortable, which is either the point or too much depending on who is watching. What it is not is a straightforward comedy night — it is closer to a one-man show that uses jokes as cover. Stream Bo Burnham: Make Happy (2016) online on iFILM.
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