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Comedy Central signs YouTube teen - VIDEOS

by Bob Sassone, posted May 29th 2008 3:23PM

Bo BurnhamWe've all seen the thousands of comedy videos that people upload to YouTube. Some of them are good, most of them are awful, and there are very few that you would describe as "brilliant." This guy is the latter.

They're from 17 year-old Bo Burnham, a Massachusetts teen who started uploading wacky songs a while back and became a viral video sensation. How much of a sensation? Hollywood agent Douglas Edley (who also reps Dave Chappelle and Drew Carey) saw the videos and called up Burnham. He's now his agent, and Burnham was signed to Comedy Central. He recently recorded an album for them and has filmed some comedy segments for the channel.

After the jump are a couple of samples of Burnham's work (check out more at the link above, especially "Cookout"). Warning: these are NSFW, or school, church, or ice cream social for that matter. But they are undeniably funny and very clever, and Burnham has the musical chops to back up the words.

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Gudlyf

FYI, he has an album coming out on iTunes June 17.

June 04 2008 at 4:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Edd

LOL good work!

May 29 2008 at 4:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Oreo

Can he take the place of Mind of Mencia? I hate that show.

May 29 2008 at 3:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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