Cool Stuff THE END: I am so proud of YOU and YOU

Last night I played Sims instead of being responsible and updating the blog. I’m pretty sure that it’s a little too late to claim that yesterday’s was just “late” now. It was bound to happen eventually.

This might be the end of this series (not to mention I have to make up for what I meant to post yesterday), so it’s gonna be a bit of a long one. I’ll do one last post tomorrow reflecting. Cool? Cool.

Today’s topic is vaguely “comedy”.

The first person I want to highlight is comedian Bo Burnham whose comedy is NSFW enough that I’m going to link his Wiki page instead of his channel which you can easily look up yourself (it’s not anything outside what is usual for comedians, but nonetheless not quite appropriate for this blog). Known for writing songs (and occasionally doing some stand-up) with a theme of political incorrectness and self-deprecating humor about being an awkward teenager, Bo is the youngest comedian to have his own “Comedy Central presents” special. His start in the comedy world is all thanks to YouTube. At 16, he wrote a song for his friends’ amusement about people assuming (since he attended an all-boys Catholic school and was heavily involved in theater) that he’s gay, which he stuck on YouTube to show his brother away at college. The video went viral, and since then Bo has proved himself to definitely be a comedic talent and far from a “one-hit wonder” of the comedy world like many viral video stars. I first heard of Bo when he was invited to perform at YouTube Live (an event YouTube held to showcase its more famous users in a non-prerecorded context), where he performed a song about YouTube and its culture.

He also has a Twitter.

NEXT we step into the weird sort of is-this-comedy? quirky category of YouTubers with BalloonShop, which makes videos that… are often so weird and nonsensical that they become totally hilarious and very quotable. I was introduced to them by their weird stop-motion-esque video, Poptart:

Trucking along, next is Barats and Bereta, a comedy duo who tend toward more sketch comedy. I’m not quite sure what happened, but I heard that they made a pilot for a show but it wasn’t picked up. Nonetheless, here’s the MANtage:

NEXT and second-to-last is comedian/filmmaker/actor/puppeteer/singer/musician/animator Neil Cicierega also known as Trapezoid or Lemon Demon, who is an internet renaissance man for sure. As a teenager, he more or less started a new genre of flash animation called “Animutation” and eventually branched out into other creative ventures on the internet, such as making quirky music under the name Lemon Demon and putting together short films and the popular series Potter Puppet Pals in tribute to the Harry Potter series. He has a YouTube channel where he posts a lot of nonsensical sort of videos sort of in the same comedic style category is BalloonShop above as well as an official website.

Here’s the music video for his song Word Disassociation:

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