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He sings “What’s Funny”, which warns that the show will be highly offensive, before the song delves into the nature of comedy and criticisms of stand-up tropes, with Bo repeatedly and maniachly complaining about his apparent ex-wife, radical feminism, life problems, and sexual frustration.

Bo performs some traditional stand-up about various contentious topics—an ex-girlfriend with a dead mother, realism and the symmetry of life, racial politics, denying homeless people change, and ‘yo mama’ jokes.

The stand-up continues, with Bo discussing his success and history as a ‘young comedian’ and reenacting absurd scenes from various shows he has performed in, though he admits none of them are real.

Bo sings “Ironic” about comedic paradoxes, before telling more rapid-fire jokes about the meaning of art and the questionable morals of Disney, but is interrupted by insistent sexual harassment from hecklers in the audience.

Bo jokes about starvation in Sub-Saharan Africa, then tells the audience that he is going to read some original introspective haikus before going back to comedy—which all end up being unserious with crude punchlines.

He promises a song about quantum mechanics which ends up being key mashing, then one about Christian Hell which is a single line about Adolf Hitler and the Jews awkwardly meeting.

Bo sings “Rant” which further criticises Christianity and expresses his disinterest in Church as a child, before performing an intentionally dry set about theoretical physics.

Things move fast in this act, giving the home listeners a distinct advantage over the audience captured here, who often seem to be laughing five seconds after the fact as they unravel the wordplay.

"[17] About.com's Patrick Bromley again praised Burnham's dense wordplay and cleverness, but felt that the artist was simply re-treading the same ground without making any significant advances.