Image: from Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’
Christina Rees and Brandon Zech discuss how the recent cultural swing toward honesty and sincerity has affected comedy, art, and music.
“We’ve been through a decade of dishonesty and performance, and it seems like we’re in the middle of a swing away from that … there’s a real appetite for honestly.”
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—Bo Burnham: Inside
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—The New Yorker: Bo Burnham’s Age of Anxiety
—The New Yorker: Dave Chappelle’s Freewheeling Podcast
—AV Club: Bo Burnham combines anxiety and absurdity to brilliant effect on Make Happy
—The New Yorker: Bo Burnham and the Possibilities of the Cinematic Selfie
—NY Times: The Culture Warped Pop, For Good
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awesome episode !