Why Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’ Resonates So Deeply With Gen Z
The 30-year-old comedian’s new Netflix special is all over TikTok, so maybe he’s not as out of touch with Zoomers as he jokes
6 min readJun 15, 2021
I was fourteen the first time I heard Bo Burnham’s song “New Math,” which, as he describes, “takes something that’s not funny—math—and makes it offensive.”