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What Is Bo Burnham's Net Worth?

Bo Burnham is an American comedian, singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and internet celebrity who has a net worth of $4 million. Bo Burnham is known for his satirical and politically controversial songs that launched his YouTube fame. On March 10, 2009, he released his first studio album via Comedy Central Records. He has since released several additional albums and comedy specials. His 2021 special "Bo Burnham: Inside" won three Primetime Emmys and a Grammy. Bo also won several awards for the 2018 film "Eighth Grade," which he wrote and directed.

Early Life

Bo Burnham was born Robert Pickering Burnham on August 21, 1990, in Hamilton, Massachusetts. He is the youngest of three children of hospice nurse Patricia and construction company owner Scott Burnham. In an episode of "This American Life" in 2014, his mother's work as a hospice nurse was covered. Being an attention-seeking child, Bo first performed skits at the tender age of three for his parents' eyes only in the comfort of their home. Growing up with the voices of comedians likeGeorge CarlinandRichard Pryor, he took an interest in theater and the ministry program campus at school. After his graduation from Saint John's in 2008, he was admitted to the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. However, he delayed his enrollment for a year to focus on his burgeoning media career.

Comedy Career

It was in 2006 that Burnham videoed himself performing two songs and posted them on YouTube for the first time, originally just to share with his family. They quickly became popular across YouTube, Break.com, and other sites. He continued to release self-described "pubescent musical comedy," accompanying himself on guitar or digital piano on songs and videos online as his audience expanded. All of his home-released videos were self-recorded in and around his family home and his bedroom in Hamilton and had an intentional DIY, almost voyeuristic feel.  Burnham describes his on-stage persona as a "more arrogant, stuck-up version [of] himself."

Bo recorded a performance in London for Comedy Central's "The World Stands Up" in January 2008, which aired in June 2008, making him the youngest person to do so at the age of 17. He subsequently signed a four-album deal with Comedy Central Records. They released Burnham's first EP, the six-song "Bo Fo Sho," as an online-release-only album on June 17, 2008. He released his debut self-titled album on March 10, 2009. He went on to perform his music all over the U.S. and internationally in London and Montreal. On March 3, 2009, fifteen Westminster College students (members of the campus' Gay-Straight Alliance, Black Students Association, International Club, and Cultural Diversity Organization) protested his concert there that evening, due to his use of homophobic and racist terms in performances.

Bo was nominated for Best Comedy Show at the 2010 Edinburgh Comedy Awards after his performance of "Bo Burnham: Words, Words, Words." He received the Panel Prize, which is a £5,000 prize for "the show or act who has most captured the comedy spirit of the 2010 Fringe." Also in 2010, Burnham wrote, executive-produced, and starred in MTV's "Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous." The series was not picked up for a second season and officially ended on June 26, 2013.Burnham finished in first place at the 2011 Comedy Central Stand-up Showdown.

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