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Bo Burnham: Words, Words, Words

Bo Burnham: Words, Words, Words

Comedy · Music · 2010

Bo Burnham is back with a new one-man show full of his patented songs and wordplay, as well as haikus, dramatic readings, blasphemy, and so much more in his first hour-long special, shot live in his home town of Boston.

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Bo Burnham: Words, Words, Words

2010 Comedy · Music 1h 2m

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7.3 / 10

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Bo Burnham is back with a new one-man show full of his patented songs and wordplay, as well as haikus, dramatic readings, blasphemy, and so much more in his first hour-long special, shot live in his home town of Boston.

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Directed by

Shannon Hartman

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Bo Burnham

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Put Bo Burnham: Words, Words, Words on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.