He marked a four-year record manage Comedy Central Records and discharged his presentation EP, Bo Fo Sho in 2008. His first full-length collection, Bo Burnham, was discharged the next year. In 2010, Burnham's second collection was discharged and Words, his first live satire uncommon, broadcast on Comedy Central. His third collection and second drama uncommon, what was discharged in 2013 on his YouTube channel and Netflix. Burnham completed first generally speaking in voting in 2011's Comedy Central Stand-up Showdown. His third stand-up satire unique, Make Happy, was discharged solely on Netflix on June 3, 2016. Notwithstanding his vocation as a comic, Burnham co-made and featured in the MTV TV arrangement Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous and discharged his first book of verse, Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone, in 2013.

Bo Burnham was born on August 21, 1990 to Scott Burnham, a development organization proprietor, and Patricia, a staff medical attendant at Burnham's school. He is the most youthful of three kids; his kin Pete and Samm went to Cornell University and Suffolk Law School, individually. Burnham moved on from St. John's Preparatory School in the spring of 2008, where he was on the honor roll and required in theater and the grounds service program.

Burnham connected to University of Southern California, Yale University, and was acknowledged to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Albeit anticipated that would start going to in fall 2008, he conceded his enlistment for a year to concentrate on his prospering media profession. In 2006, Burnham recorded himself performing two melodies and presented them on YouTube on offer with his family. They turned into an overnight sensation when they were replicated to Break.com, with activity increasing more than 111 times.

Going with himself on guitar or advanced piano, Burnham kept on discharging self-depicted "pubescent musical comic drama" melodies and recordings online as his gathering of people developed. Portrayed in The Boston Globe as "all the while wholesome and exasperating, close in a folksy-frightening kind of way", Burnham composed and discharged tunes about white matchless quality, Helen Keller's incapacities, homosexuality, and that's only the tip of the iceberg.

The greater part of Burnham's home-discharged recordings were self-recorded in and around his family's home in Hamilton, Massachusetts, most in his room, recordings with a deliberate "do-it-without anyone's help , verging on like voyeurism”. Burnham’s music and exhibitions handle such subjects as race, sex, human sexuality, sex, and religion. Burnham depicts his dramatic persona as a "more egotistical, stuck-up form of himself." When talking with The Detroit News about his rapping, he communicated his expectation to respect and regard the viewpoint and society of hip-hop music.

Spoken to by Douglas Edley, Burnham recorded an execution in London for Comedy Central's The World Stands Up in January 2008 (publicized June 30, 2008), and marked a four-record manage Comedy Central Records. Fun times TV Records discharged Burnham's first EP, the six-tune Bo Fo Sho, as an online discharge just collection on June 17, 2008. Burnham's first full collection, the self-titled Bo Burnham, was discharged on March 10, 2009. Burnham has performed his music in the United States, including Cobb's Comedy Club, YouTube Live in San Francisco, Caroline's Comedy Club in New York City, and globally in London and Montreal.