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Comedian, actor and director Bo Burnham is releasing a brand new special in 2021, but it will be a 2020 product. Shot in the course of the pandemic year without a crew or audience in his house, the aptly named is called Within will premiere on Netflix before the end of the year.
Announced out of the blue on social media, this special is a truly one-of-a-kind one-man show that premieres on a big stage. Fans immediately asked Bo how he recorded the included clip himself, and he replied that it was actually footage from his final special that was repurposed for the trailer. That way, viewers only get a glimpse of what to expect when the final product hits Netflix.
Look at the Bo Burnham Within Trailer below:
Hello. I made a new special. It was shot by myself, without a crew or audience, over the course of the past year. it is almost done. I hope you like it. pic.twitter.com/5a59IUrzVj
– Bo Burnham (@boburnham) April 28, 2021
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Within will be Burnham’s fifth stand-up special, directly following on from 2016 Make happy. The former YouTube has also shot two stand-up specials for other comedians in recent years and shot its own feature film (Eighth class) and play a prominent role in the Oscar nomination Promising young woman.
Within joins a small but historically significant genre of pandemic programming that will serve as a time capsule for our present moment in time. Most famous is The office Star John Krasinski started a newscast on YouTube full of happy stories that he eventually turned into a production contract with ViacomCBS. Cable networks also produced makeshift Zoom versions of some of their shows, introducing new concepts that could work with long distance calls through computer screens.
