As far as I know it’s only legally available on Netflix so I don’t have a link, but if you have access to it I highly recommend it. I’m rewatching it right now because I’m on a break from job hunting and, though I try to get outside at least once a day, I frequently fail at that goal because there’s not a lot of extrinsic reason to go outside. It’s not the same as the pandemic but it definitely has parallels and a lot of “Inside” feels relevant right now.
He’s an engaging performer. Great writing and delivery, good physical comedy and performances, and I think he’s a really interesting visual designer. I love the lighting and editing of Inside as much as I like the writing and performance.
What do you think of Inside? of Bo? I know some of his earlier stuff is… rough. I think he had a bad case of “becoming famous as a child” but I think he matured gracefully as an artist.
Side casual conversation: is there an active comm for standup comedy / whatever kind of comedy Inside is? I guess it’s internet comedy but I don’t think that’s a standard genre.
It was transcendent when I watched it in 2021. I should revisit it!
Amazing content. Bo is a rare gift to humanity. He manages to walk the tightrope of doing full-on preaching, while being extremely funny, without any of it getting irritating in the least.
And I really like his music.
My all time favorite from that special is “That Funny Feeling”
Great special all around.
“20,000 years of this; seven more to go” is a line that floats through my head more often than I wish it did :/ It’s a great song and all but I really wish it aged less well.
“A gift shop at the gun range; a mass shooting at the mall”
There it is, again :(
Phoebe Bridgers did a cover that’s so good they started dating
Another personal favorite: Art is Dead
Welcome to the Internet is a certified banger and a cultural touchstone.
Its such a great song! It makes me love and hate the internet!
Agreed. “A little bit of everything, all of the time” is such an apt description of what I love and despise about the Internet. There’s so much stuff. And so much of it is terrible and awful, and so much of it is beautiful and awe-inspiring. It’s just a lot.
I like the verse that starts with “not very long ago, just before your time…” Never forget what was taken from us!
I was pretty fluent with the earlier internet, and I definitely saw things that messed me up, but at least I didn’t have massive international corporations trying to addict me to services from the jump. Or at least, they weren’t as good at it then. The part that goes
Mommy let you use her iPad; you were barely two. And it did all the things we designed it to do... now look at you.Gets me choked up when I hear it. We, adults generally, have let a lot of awful things happen to the kids. Even now I don’t think we really understand the scope of the damage. The fact that I, and my parents, and their parents and so on were fucked up and abused in their own unique contemporary fashions doesn’t make the pill any less bitter.
That line doesn’t hit me quite as hard because I’m an “Oregon Trail” millennial: my first computer ran DOS (which means I was definitely old enough to read, because I had to be to use it) and I didn’t get the Internet (AOL, LOL) until I was a preteen. Luckily for me, I matured at the same rate as mature content proliferated, so I was never really exposed to anything I wasn’t equipped to handle.
(My computer illiterate parents had absolutely no clue what I had access to and got damn lucky I didn’t have a personality inclined to go seek weird shit out, because it could’ve easily gone the other way.)
My own kids, of course, get Linux PCs, not tablets, and don’t get unsupervised access to the Internet at all.
But yeah, for a lot of people outside of my very narrow age range and tech-exposure circumstances, it’s been an absolute disaster.
Thats exactly how my childhood experience was as well
At first I thought you meant Welcome to YouTube and thought man that is a deep cut.
Ah back to the original YouTube Live in '08. Back before YT was complete shit, and going viral actually was a feat, not just getting a bunch of views from your social media.
I’ve love Bo since his YouTube days, but I haven’t watched Inside because Netflix. But I love the album.
If you ever find yourself in international cyberwaters, I think it’s worth it to watch the whole thing. I love his other specials but I think Inside is in another class altogether. But yeah, fuck Netflix.
Inside is my favorite film from this decade, period. It is fantastic in every way.
I haven’t given it a full listen in a while but I absolutely loved it when it dropped. The jokes, music, direction were all a perfect encapsulation of the pandemic moment- being locked in the house and doing something entirely on your own.
It does feel like a time capsule. Even right when it came out I remember thinking, “…yep, that about sums up what it’s been like the past year-ish.”
I loved his work from the moment he got on stage at the Comedy Central clubs when he was like 17 and the first thing he said was "Don’t worry, I’m hilarious’. Basically any show he’s done is worth a watch. And also don’t forget The Inside Outtakes, there are some nuggets in there that should’ve made it to the main thing.
I’m picking through his older youtube stuff right now, so much good stuff. One of my favorite non-Inside songs of his is Can’t Handle This (Kanye Rant). One of the best Pagliacci impressions I’ve ever seen.
I think my favourite bit is when in ‘I fuck sluts’ he’s doing some pretty dense verbal stuff with a book open, keeps turning the page and at some point goes ‘The pages are blank, why am I lying to you’, puts the book on his head but still expends the effort to turn the page later on.
It’s just an incredible way of misdirection that he does really well.
Dude would blow his dad before he eats a burrito with a fork. Some may find that a strange principle, but it surely is a principle, haha
I agree that it still holds up, it’s an important piece of art that shows a snapshot into the pandemic! I listen to the audio version every year or so.
Idk if they’re anywhere else, but he posted an hour long outtakes video to his youtube: https://youtu.be/5XWEVoI40sE
The outtakes are 100% fabulous. I’ve had The Chicken on shuffle for years and I only today realized / remembered it’s not actually part of Inside proper. Such a lovely song.
I’d forgotten about The Chicken 😂 time for another rewatch!
I also love his brief joke songs:
“Come on, Jeffrey, you can do it Pave the way, put your back into it Tell us why, show us how Look at where you came from, look at you now”A few of the songs are still on my playlist. My youngest introduced me to it, so good.
