Bo Burnham - Make Happy Speech lyrics

What's this show about? What am I talking
About? To summarize the show though
"Me! Me! Me!" But, if you take
One thing away from my show, i hope
It's a T-shirt we're selling them out there
And at boburnhamcom this is all a
Front for the brand but what's this
Show about? What do you think
Industrial piping?

(Pipe hisses)

Close

(Second pipe hisses)

Stay out of it! It's about

Mute this but for real

What is it about? It’s about performing i
Try to make my show about other
Things but it always ends up becoming
About performing i started performing very
Young - as a teenager y’know
Professionally and as a comedian
What you’re supposed
To do is talk about what you
Know and what I knew, always
Was performing - so to talk about
Traffic or laundry felt
Incredibly disingenuous

But, I worried that making a
Show about performing would
Be too meta – it wouldn’t be relatable
To people that aren’t performers
But what I found
Is that - I don’t think anyone isn’t
Can we get the house lights up for a second
And could you - let the lights
On stage – let the artifice fade away
Now we’re all the same i mean
You’re all facing this way still
Y’know, I look at it - I look out at
You and it’s a very diverse crowd i mean
More European than I would have
Hoped but we’ll get
There i look at the young people y’know
And I feel like I was born in 1990 and I
Was sort of raised in America when it was
A cult of self expression, and
I was just taught, y’know
Express myself and have things
To say and everyone will care about them
And I think everyone was taught that
And most of us found out no-one gives a
Shit what we think so we flock to
Performers by the thousands ‘cause we’re the
Few that have found an audience
And then I’m supposed to get
Up here and say follow
Your dreams - as if this is
A meritocracy? It is not
Okay? I had a privileged life
And I got lucky, and I’m unhappy

They say it’s like the ‘me’ generation
It’s not the arrogance is taught
Or it was cultivated it’s
Self-conscious that’s what
It is it’s conscious of self social
Media - it’s just the market’s answer to
A generation that demanded to perform
So the market said, here - perform
Perform everything to each other
All the time for no reason it’s
Prison - it's horrific it’s
Performer and audience melded
Together what do we want more than
To lie in our bed at the end
Of the day and just watch
Our life as a satisfied audience member i
Know very little about anything but what
I do know is that if you can
Live your life without an audience
You should do it

And now you’re thinking
How the fuck are you gonna dig
The show outta this weird hole?

Oh, you want me to be funny
And make a point? Nah
Nah nah nah nah nah nah batman

So how do we do it? We do it like this