Youthful Comic Bo Burnham Booked at Royal Oak Music Theatre

Comic Bo Burnham, who will perform at the Royal Oak Music Theatre at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30, is "getting old." He turned 20 in August, but he still makes jokes and tells stories about how teenagers cope with sexuality, peer pressure, and so forth.

He was an honor student from a respectable Massachusetts family, but he was "corrupted" by such cross-the-line comedians as George Carlin and Richard Pryor. Four years ago, accompanying himself with a guitar or an electric piano, he started posting R-rated "songs of love, teenage lust and policitcl incorrectness" on YouTube. His intent was to entertain an older brother away at college, but he gathered a following and reached more than a million page views.

Comedy Central took notice and Burnham became the youngest comic ever to be featured in a special on the cable network.

He's been compared to Andrew Dice Clay as an equal opportunity offender, making jokes that have drawn criticism from gays, ethnic minorities, even people with disabilities.

Burnham insists that despite his comedic hard edge, he's a good person. He says his satire is intended to expose the foolishness of prejudices, and he describes his on-stage act as a "more arrogant, stuck-up version" of himself.

Tickets to Bo Burnham's show at the Royal Oak Music Theatre are $24.

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