He has now written and directed his first film, “Eighth Grade,” about a middle-school girl named Kayla who is mortified by life. Burnham, meanwhile, is twenty-seven and (the clergy’s loss) a successful comedian, after finding certain fame as a teen-age YouTube star. Instant Messenger is dead, but kids now have Instagram and Snapchat to magnify every humiliation, insecurity, and after-school power play. The indignities of junior high are perennial, but every hell has its novelties. Their first kiss was at a party, after Tom Brady won his second Super Bowl. He had a girlfriend, Cassie, who was also in “Footloose”-she sang “Let’s Hear It for the Boy.” He asked her out over AOL Instant Messenger, because he was too scared to do it in person. 5.” He had discovered George Carlin and told a classmate that he wanted to be a comedian, but he was also considering becoming a pastor. He liked “Austin Powers” and Rubik’s Cubes and Lou Bega’s “Mambo No. He was a budding theatre geek, but also did basketball, math league, and the student council.

Lanky and blond, he was late to puberty at pool parties, he would keep his hands under his armpits to hide his lack of body hair. When Bo Burnham was in eighth grade, he starred in a middle-school production of “Footloose,” in the Kevin Bacon role. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.

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