Bo Burnham: Inside is a 2021 American special written, directed, filmed, edited, and performed by comedian Bo Burnham.Recorded in the guest house of his Los Angeles home during the COVID-19 pandemic without a crew or audience, it was released on Netflix on May 30, 2021. Featuring a variety of songs and sketches about Burnham's day-to-day life indoors, it depicts his deteriorating mental health and explores themes of performativity and his relationship to the Internet and the audience it helped him reach, as well as addressing issues including climate change and social movements. Other segments discuss online activities such as calling one's mother on FaceTime, posting on Instagram, sexting, and video game streaming.
Inside follows Burnham's previous stand-up comedy routine Make Happy (2016); while touring for Make Happy, Burnham began to experience panic attacks onstage. Inside was released on May 30, 2021, and an album of songs from the special, Inside (The Songs), was released digitally on June 10, 2021. The special received critical acclaim, with reviewers praising its music, direction, cinematography, and presentation of life in the pandemic. Critics found that the special incorporates a variety of art forms including music, stand-up comedy bits, and meta-commentary, describing it as some combination of comedy, drama, documentary, and theater. For Inside, Burnham received a Peabody Award, Emmy Awards for Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special, Outstanding Music Direction, and Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special, and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media for "All Eyes on Me".
On the one-year anniversary, Burnham released an hour-long YouTube video of unused footage, songs and alternate takes from the special, The Inside Outtakes. A deluxe album including these outtakes, Inside (Deluxe), was released on June 3, 2022