Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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In II Cllld CDIIIECYC g byErinPoppe At the young age ol I6 comedian Bo Burnham knew what his true calling was in life. He traveled to Kansas to perform in front of residents and students at McCain. He started off on YouTube with his comedic songs. He then frequented local comedy clubs performing stand-up, wrote a screenplay and won Comedy Central's Stand-up Showdown, all before he reached the age of 21. This man was Bo Burnham. Towering at 6'5 , the 20-year old found his passion of comedy at the young age of 16, something most high school students wouldnlt necessarily consider at such a young age. Burnham headlined for a UPC sponsored event at McCain Auditorium Feb. 7 with comedianfactor Rob Riggle opening. Attendance boomed as 1116 tickets were sold. Burnham really knew how to play to the Wildcat crowd. Muck Fizzou?,' he asked the crowd about a t-shirt of a woman in the front row. i'What is this witch talk? Oh, another rival? Well MUCK iEM.n On stage, Burnham appeared to be aggressive, even angry as he paced around the stage like a madman. But prior to the show during sound check, Burnham lounged around in sweatpants, a common outfit from his YouTube videos, and cracked jokes with the workers. He seemed like a completely different person. I'm not myself on stagef' Burnham said. 'iOn stage lim abit more aggressive...a character of myself. That character thinks he knows everything. People think 1 would be a douche in real life. I would think it toofl Burnham was just a guy doing what he loved. He didn't need to go to college either to know it. After being accepted to several different colleges, including New York University, Burnham decided to follow his passion instead. He planned on taking sporadic classes in the future, to keep his mind sharp. U1 would have been a junior now, Burnham said. But I feel like l am learning a lot, even though I am not in schoolfi And yet school is where it all had started. His freshman year of high school he learned his first instrument, piano, and from there he had taken off. His YouTube songs such as uPerfect Womanu, a love song for Helen Keller, and 'Tm Bo Yon elicited a combined total of 18,822,428 views since being posted in 2008. However, Burnham didn't reminisce in the past. G1 didn't look back on the stuffl wrote at 16, it would be pointless, Burnham said. Going from 16 to 20, that is the largest four year jump of your life. You grow so much during that time you become a different person. One who doesnit believe or need what they had at 16.8

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