NEW YORK, June 2 -- YouTube fave Bo Burnham comes to
COMEDY CENTRAL Records with his debut album, "Bo Fo Sho." The 6-song EP
will be available for download to own from iTunes, eMusic and other major
download sites on Tuesday, June 17.
Bo Burnham was born in 1990. Bo Burnham writes funny songs. Bo Burnham
talks in third person. Burnham started teaching himself how to play piano
and guitar during the summer before his junior year in high school. On
December 28th, 2006, Burnham recorded two of his songs as videos and posted
them on YouTube. Eight months and seven songs later, Burnham's videos have
been seen over twenty million times worldwide, generating literally
hundreds of thousands of laughs. The songs, recorded in Burnham's bedroom
with a camera resting on a stack of books, have been remixed, rated and
reviewed thousands of times. The digital EP is a mix of old and new
material.
Previously released recordings by COMEDY CENTRAL Records include: Dane
Cook's platinum-selling "Harmful If Swallowed" and double-platinum
"Retaliation," Grammy Award-winning "Lewis Black: The Carnegie Hall
Performance," Grammy Award nominees' Steven Wright's "I Still Have A Pony"
and George Lopez's "American's Mexican," Joe Rogan's "Shiny Happy Jihad,"
Christopher Titus's "5th Annual End Of The World Tour," Norm Macdonald's
"Ridiculous," Demetri Martin's "These Are Jokes," "Jim Gaffigan: Beyond The
Pale," Mike Birbiglia's "My Secret Public Journal Live," D.L. Hughley's
"Notes From The GED Section," Mitch Hedberg's "Mitch All Together" and
"Strategic Grill Locations" and Dave Attell's "Skanks For The Memories."
COMEDY CENTRAL, the only all-comedy network, currently is seen in more
than 95 million homes nationwide. COMEDY CENTRAL is owned by, and is a
registered trademark of, Comedy Partners, a wholly-owned division of VIACOM
Inc.'s (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) MTV Networks. COMEDY CENTRAL's Internet
address is http://www.comedycentral.com. For up-to-the-minute and archival press
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