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81-405: The Postal Service followed through with moving most of their operations, including all delivery operations, to the new post office. Thus almost all mail delivered within the town of Hamilton carries the "South Hamilton" postal address and the 01982 ZIP code. Only mail destined for P.O. Boxes located within the old post office and a few nearby buildings still carries the "Hamilton" postal address and

162-672: A Foxconn factory in China. The episode was entitled "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory" and became one of the show's most popular episodes at that time, with 888,000 downloads and 206,000 streams. WBEZ planned to host a live showing and a Q+A of "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" in Chicago on April 7, 2012. On March 16, 2012, This American Life officially retracted the episode after learning that several events recounted both in

243-406: A Peabody Award in 1996 and again in 2006 for TAL , for a show which "captures contemporary culture in fresh and inventive ways that mirror the diversity and eccentricities of its subjects" and "weav[es] original monologues, mini-dramas, original fiction, traditional radio documentaries and original radio dramas into an instructional and entertaining tapestry". In 2020, This American Life became

324-536: A major motion picture . The film was directed by Steven Soderbergh and stars Matt Damon . Glass has stated that the radio show has no financial stake in the film, but noted that he appreciated how well the movie stuck to the original facts. This American Life ' s 361st episode's, "Fear of Sleep", section "Stranger in the Night" featured an excerpt from Mike Birbiglia 's one-man show, "Sleepwalk with Me". This inspired Glass to work with Birbiglia for two years on

405-608: A "more arrogant, stuck-up version [of] himself". When speaking with The Detroit News about his rapping , he expressed his intent to honor and respect the perspective and culture of hip-hop music . Burnham recorded a performance in London for Comedy Central's The World Stands Up in January 2008 (aired June 30), making him the youngest person to do so at the age of 17, and signed a four-record deal with Comedy Central Records . Comedy Central Records released Burnham's first EP,

486-550: A 16-year-old without any tact". During press for his film Eighth Grade in 2018, he used the controversies surrounding his work to express concerns about the new concept of teenagers' mistakes being immortalized online: "I'm happy to be an example of someone who failed out loud publicly, in a certain way, and who has hopefully been able to evolve and get past that. And I do worry that kids don't have that freedom anymore." In an interview with NPR , he said that he has "a lot of material from back then that [he's] not proud of and [thinks]

567-419: A 2014 interview, Glass revealed the software and equipment used to make the show. The staff records interviews using Marantz PMD661 digital recorders and Audio Technica AT835b shotgun microphones . After each recording session (whether a single interview or day of recording) he uses a story structuring technique he learned from print journalist Paul Tough . He jots or types all the most memorable moments from

648-560: A Peabody Award . The special was nominated in six categories at the 73rd Emmy Awards , winning three. At the 64th Grammy Awards , Inside was nominated for Best Music Film and Best Song Written for Visual Media , winning the latter. Three songs from the special appeared also on the Billboard charts and were certified platinum in the United States, as was the accompanying album Inside (The Songs) . Robert Pickering Burnham

729-482: A comedy special: "I approached [the special], which was me taking stock of the feelings that I get out of watching this person perform and asking, 'How can I recreate that for the audience as best as possible? How can I make a good container for the thing?' But the thing is being provided by them, so a lot of directing is just getting out of their way." In 2019, it was announced Burnham would contribute songs to an upcoming Sesame Street film. In 2020, Burnham played

810-527: A crew or audience during the COVID-19 pandemic , Inside received widespread acclaim. It was nominated in six categories for the 73rd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards , winning three for Outstanding Music Direction , Outstanding Writing , and Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special . Burnham also received two nominations at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Music Film and Best Song Written for Visual Media ("All Eyes on Me"), although

891-468: A distribution partnership with the program, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting awarded the show a three-year grant for $ 350,000, double what Glass applied for. As time went on, the staff was drawn more to journalistic stories that were, as Glass puts it, "in a style where there were characters and scenes and plot and funny moments." The show is also carried on Sirius XM Satellite Radio over

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972-477: A folksy-creepy sort of way", Burnham wrote and released songs about white supremacy , Helen Keller 's disabilities, homosexuality, and more. All of Burnham's early videos were recorded in and around his family's home, mostly in his bedroom, and had an intentional "do-it-yourself [feel], almost like voyeurism". Burnham's music and performances tackle such subjects as class, race, gender, human sexuality, sex, and religion. Burnham describes his on-stage persona as

1053-496: A format where each segment of the show would be an "act," and at the beginning of each episode, would explain that show consisted of "documentaries, monologues, overheard conversations, found tapes, [and] anything we can think of." Glass also served as executive producer. The program's name was changed beginning with the March 21, 1996, episode, and was picked up nationally by PRI the following June. Chicago Public Media (then called

1134-673: A free education as his mother was the school's nurse at the time. He made the honor roll and was involved in theater and the campus ministry program; he graduated in 2008. He was accepted into the New York University Tisch School of the Arts to study experimental theatre , but deferred his admission for a year to pursue a career in comedy and eventually never attended. Burnham began his career on YouTube in 2006. In December 2006, he wanted to show two songs he had written to his older brother Pete, who had left

1215-486: A mood in a story or make things sound pretty. Instead, it's there to help you make your point ... We're trying to point out what you should be listening for in the tape so you get the same joy or sorrow out of a story that we're feeling. And we use music the same way—it's a little flashlight that helps us get our ideas across. Jonathan Menjivar, in a guest post for Transom Episodes of TAL are accompanied by music. Some songs are used between acts and are credited in

1296-634: A movie based on this segment. The film version of Sleepwalk with Me screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2012, to favorable reviews, winning the "Best of NEXT Audience Award". In May 2011, Walt Disney Pictures announced it was adapting a movie from a 2009 episode titled "The Girlfriend Equation". The 2018 film Come Sunday was based on a 2005 TAL story called "Heretics," about controversial Tulsa preacher Carlton Pearson . In 2019, Lulu Wang adapted her autobiographical story called "What You Don't Know" from

1377-401: A piece included on the show. The program helped launch the literary careers of many, including contributing editor Sarah Vowell and essayists David Rakoff and David Sedaris . For live shows, which combine live and pre-recorded elements, Glass previously used a mixing console and CD players. With time, he switched to using an iPad Mini running TouchAble software, which in turn controls

1458-463: A private person, Burnham usually avoids giving interviews or uploading to social media unless he promotes a new project. Having previously referenced struggling with anxiety and panic attacks , particularly surrounding his creative work and performances, he confirmed in Inside that this was the reason he walked away from live performance. At the 2010 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he was nominated for

1539-598: A production partner on the show and on Serial with future shows to be independent. In 2017, This American Life launched the podcast S-Town through the spinoff company Serial Productions. Serial Productions was bought by The New York Times Company in 2020. The Times and Serial jointly produced the podcasts Nice White Parents , hosted by Chana Joffe-Walt , which debuted in July 2020; and The Improvement Association , hosted by Zoe Chace, which debuted in April 2021. In

1620-521: A second theater event, titled This American Life – Live! Returning to the Scene of the Crime . Contributors included Mike Birbiglia, Starlee Kine , Dan Savage, David Rakoff, and Joss Whedon . On May 10, 2012, This American Life broadcast a third theater event, titled Invisible Made Visible . Contributors included David Sedaris, David Rakoff, Tig Notaro , Ryan Knighton , and Mike Birbiglia, who made

1701-481: A short film with Terry Gross . On June 7, 2014, This American Life recorded a fourth live event titled The Radio Drama Episode . Contributors included Carin Gilfry, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mike Birbiglia, Joshua Bearman, and Sasheer Zamata. The episode was broadcast on radio and the podcast on June 20, 2014. From 1998 to 2005, the program could be accessed online in two formats: a free RealAudio stream available from

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1782-406: A single act. Each act is produced by a combination of staff and freelance contributors. Programs usually begin with a short program identification by host Ira Glass who then introduces a prologue related to the theme which precedes act one. This prologue will then lead into the presentation of the theme for that week's show. After the introduction of the theme, Glass then introduces the first act of

1863-409: A single theme or topic through the unique juxtaposition of first-person storytelling and whimsical narrative." For budgetary reasons, Glass and four of the radio show's producers left Chicago for New York City, where Showtime is headquartered. In January 2007, it was announced that Glass had completed production on the show's first season, with the first episode set to premiere on March 22. Originally

1944-467: A website redesign. Though the segments were cut from podcast streams, the transcript of the contents have been kept accessible on the show's official website. In 2015, the show retracted a story about canvassers who tried to change people's political opinions. The story was based on an article in Science that was also retracted. In March 2014, the program announced that PRI would stop distributing

2025-435: Is "labor intensive," David Stewart with Current said it is "remarkable that while a few stories were fatuous or trite, most were successful and some really memorable." He added, "Whose American life is this? Clearly Ira's: it is kinky, clever, at once disingenuous and innocent, fanciful, rarely too serious...Above all, it is compelling." The program has received criticism as well. In 2020, author Andrew J Bottomley wrote that

2106-532: Is an American stand-up comedian , musician, actor, filmmaker, and YouTuber . Burnham's work combines elements of filmmaking with music , sketch , and stand-up comedy , commonly with a dramatic or tragic twist that is often left open to interpretation. In 2006, Burnham created a YouTube channel, where he uploaded videos of him playing comedic songs that he wrote, often featuring wordplay and taboo or dark subject matter. Despite only being in his late teens, his music videos quickly went viral , making him one of

2187-407: Is broadcast on numerous public radio stations in the United States and internationally, and is also available as a free weekly podcast . Primarily a journalistic non-fiction program, it has also featured essays , memoirs , field recordings , short fiction , and found footage . The first episode aired on November 17, 1995, under the show's original title, Your Radio Playhouse . The series

2268-469: Is offensive and not helpful". He further addressed this topic on the song "Problematic" from his 2021 comedy special Inside . Burnham lives in Los Angeles . He dated filmmaker Lorene Scafaria from 2013 to 2022. In January 2023, it was rumored that he had split up with Scafaria and was dating musician Phoebe Bridgers . Eight months later, Bridgers confirmed their relationship. Known to be

2349-505: Is often categorized as satire , covering topics such as homophobia , mental illness , sexism , and racism for both shock value and social commentary . He has cited Kate Berlant , Catherine Breillat , George Carlin , John Cassavetes , Flight of the Conchords , Mitch Hedberg , Anthony Jeselnik , Stephen Lynch , Demetri Martin , Steve Martin , Tim Minchin , and Hans Teeuwen as influences. He named Steve Martin as being

2430-529: The Chicago Reader , Michael Miner quoted Covino as saying, "The show [Glass] proposed was The Wild Room . He just didn't call it The Wild Room ." Glass, however, did not include his co-host in his plans and assured him that the deal was unlikely to happen. When the show went on without him, Covino says he felt "betrayed". While Glass admits he wasn't transparent about his plans, in that same article, he explained, "Every week on The Wild Room we came to

2511-859: The Ableton Live software on his MacBook Air . He can plug the MacBook into the house sound system using the device's headphone jack. The show offers two, six-month fellowship positions annually for persons who have worked in the field of journalism, but who would like training in how to tell stories in the style of This American Life . Former fellows include: Emmanuel Dzotsi , co-host of Serial season 3; BA Parker, host of NPR’s Code Switch ; Brian Reed, host of S-Town ; Ari Saperstein, host of Blind Landing ; Jessica Lussenhop , investigative reporter at ProPublica ; and current staff members Dana Chivvis, Phia Bennin, Aviva DeKornfeld and Safiyah Riddle. We don't use music at This American Life to create

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2592-471: The MacArthur Foundation approached Torey Malatia, general manager of Chicago Public Radio. They offered him US$ 150,000 to make a show featuring local Chicago writers and performance artists. Malatia approached Glass with the idea, who countered that he wanted to do a weekly program, but with a different premise, a budget of US$ 300,000 , and sights on taking it national. In a 1998 article in

2673-785: The Sundance Film Festival in January 2018. The film has been universally acclaimed; among other accolades, it received the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film . It garnered a 99% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 326 reviews, and holds an average rating of 89 out of 100 on Metacritic . Burnham directed Jerrod Carmichael 's comedy special 8 (2017) for HBO and Chris Rock 's comedy special Tamborine (2018) for Netflix. In an interview with Vulture , he discussed his directorial outlook when directing

2754-431: The 01936 zip code. Bo Burnham 's song "I'm Bo Yo" includes the lyric "I'm representing you/I'm representing the people from the 01982", a reference to Burnham's home town of Hamilton. This Essex County, Massachusetts geography–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bo Burnham This is an accepted version of this page Robert Pickering Burnham (born August 21, 1990)

2835-543: The 2016 episode "In Defense of Ignorance" into The Farewell . The 2019 film Ode to Joy was adapted from a TAL story by Chris Higgins called "I've Fallen in Love and I Can't Get Up." This American Life has taken the radio show on the road three times since 2000; material recorded on each of the three tours has been edited into an episode which aired on the radio shortly after the tour. Other episodes include segments recorded live. On May 1, 2008, This American Life

2916-412: The 74th Emmy award for best writing for a variety special. On May 30, 2022, the first anniversary of Inside , Burnham released 63 minutes of unseen footage from the special on YouTube, titled The Inside Outtakes . In June 2022, he released an accompanying album with the same name containing all the songs from the video and two new others. He also released Inside (Deluxe) , an album containing all of

2997-564: The Public Radio International block on the XM Public Radio channel. In the early 2010's, the program consistently rated as the first- or second-most downloaded podcast on iTunes for each week. Early response to the program was largely positive. In 1998, Mother Jones magazine called it "hip – as well as intensely literary and surprisingly irreverent." Glass used a unique strategy to promote

3078-625: The WBEZ Alliance) produced. The program's first year was produced on a budget that was tight even by US public-radio standards. A budget of $ 243,000 covered an outfitted studio, marketing costs, satellite time, four full-time staffers, and various freelance writers and reporters. The station was located at Chicago's Navy Pier . Early on, Glass commissioned stories from artists, writers, theater people, and journalists. National syndication began in June 1996 when Public Radio International formed

3159-505: The campus' Gay-Straight Alliance , Black Students Association, International Club, and Cultural Diversity Organization) protested his concert there that evening, due to his use of homophobic and racist terms in performances. Of the controversy, he said, "It's so ironic because gay bashers were the ones labeling me in high school.   ... I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear and that's what makes it comedy." Despite

3240-401: The college's admission that they had booked Burnham while ignorant of his show's material, dean of students John Comerford praised the opportunities for discourse the controversy brought the school. In May 2009, viral marketing began appearing for Funny People , in which Burnham starred in an NBC sitcom called Yo Teach! In the promo, he starred opposite Jason Schwartzman as a student in

3321-422: The earliest YouTube stars. He began creating albums featuring his songs, such as Bo fo Sho (2008) and the self-titled album Bo Burnham (2009). Burnham switched his focus from YouTube to performing stand-up comedy routines, which combined his comedy songs with traditional stand-up. He released three comedy specials, Words Words Words (2010), what. (2013), and Make Happy (2016). He also worked on

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3402-408: The episode guide for the show. Other songs are used as thematic background music for stories and are not credited. Jonathan Menjivar is a producer and music supervisor at the show. "Over the years, we've used hundreds of songs under our stories—and in some stories, we use a number of different songs in different sections. We tried to answer these emails for awhile [ sic ? ], but often it

3483-523: The face of obvious discrepancies. The podcast of this episode became the most downloaded until February 2013. Two weeks later, the show also reiterated that they had previously removed three stories by Stephen Glass due to dubious content, namely episode 57, "Delivery", episode 79, " Stuck in the Wrong Decade", and episode 86, "How to Take Money from Strangers." The episodes including the segments had inadvertently resurfaced in episode streams due to

3564-754: The family home to attend university in New York City . A friend suggested that he film himself performing the songs in his bedroom and post them on YouTube, which was then a relatively new website. His song "My Whole Family..." quickly became popular when the link to its YouTube video was shared on Break.com , soon leading to it being shared on other sites. Accompanying himself on guitar or digital piano , Burnham continued to release self-described "pubescent musical comedy" songs and videos online as his audience grew. Described in The Boston Globe as "simultaneously wholesome and disturbing, intimate in

3645-424: The film. In June 2008, Spike Lee bought the movie rights to Ronald Mallett 's memoir, whose story was featured in the episode "My Brilliant Plan". Potential Warner Bros films from TAL episodes include "Niagara", which explored the town of Niagara Falls, New York , after those who sought to exploit the tourism and hydroelectrical opportunities of the area left; "Wonder Woman" (from the episode "Superpowers"),

3726-830: The first news program to win the Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting. The winning work was "The Out Crowd", the 688th episode with "revelatory, intimate journalism that illuminates the personal impact of the Trump Administration's ' Remain in Mexico ' policy". In March 2021, the May 9, 2008, episode, "The Giant Pool of Money", was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry as one of 25 works added to

3807-644: The idea of, I just want to serve someone else's vision." In March 2021, Burnham was cast as Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty from HBO. Due to scheduling conflicts he left the series in August 2021. In April 2021, Burnham ended his social media hiatus to announce that his fourth special, Inside , would be released on May 30. Created by Burnham alone in his home's guest house without

3888-785: The latter's English class. On May 21, 2010, Burnham taped his first one-hour stand-up special, entitled Words Words Words , for Comedy Central from the House of Blues in Boston as part of the network's new "House of Comedy" series of stand-up specials; it aired on Comedy Central on October 16, 2010, and was released for purchase two days later. Burnham finished in first place at the 2011 Comedy Central Stand-up Showdown. In 2013, Burnham wrote, executive-produced, and starred in Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous alongside Dan Lagana , Luke Liacos, and Dave Becky . The series

3969-738: The main Edinburgh Comedy Award and won both the Edinburgh Comedy Awards' panel prize and the Malcolm Hardee "Act Most Likely to Make a Million Quid" Award. For his 2018 film Eighth Grade and 2021 comedy special Inside he received several awards and nominations for his writing and directing, including the following: This American Life This American Life ( TAL ) is a weekly hour-long American radio program produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media and hosted by Ira Glass . It

4050-466: The mixing and editing. Since October 2006, the program has offered a free podcast feed to the public. Under this arrangement, each show is made available to podcast feeds and aggregation programs Sunday evening at 8 p.m. ET, allowing radio stations a 43-hour window of exclusivity to carry the episode. After seven days, the link to the MP3 is removed from the podcast feed. Older shows can be streamed online via

4131-574: The most important of these. His musical style has also drawn comparisons to Tom Lehrer , and he was reported to have written his 2009 song "New Math" as a tribute to Lehrer's 1965 song of the same name . Burnham said of controversy surrounding his older material in 2009, "I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy." As his career progressed, he began expressing regret for his early material, which he described as " shock-jock offensive comedy done by

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4212-491: The music and script for a comedy film that was ultimately scrapped. Burnham created and starred in the 2013 MTV mockumentary series Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous . He also published the poetry book Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone (2013). In 2016, Burnham announced his intention to step away from performing live, which he later revealed to be due to him suffering from anxiety and experiencing panic attacks on stage. He went on to make his filmmaking debut as

4293-500: The music for an Apatow-produced comedy film which he described as the "anti- High School Musical ", although he insisted that the script is not a parody of the Disney musicals, but rather an attempt to emulate the high school he attended. Hoping to also star in the film, Burnham told Wired that he named the lead character after himself in a "not-so-subtle hint". In a March 2009 interview with Boston's Weekly Dig , he said that he

4374-404: The official show website, and a DRM-encrypted download available through Audible.com , which charged $ 4 per episode. In early 2006, the program began to offer MP3 copies of each episode, which could be streamed from the show's website using a proprietary Flash player. Aware that more people were listening through headphones and so could hear mistakes more clearly, the production sought to improve

4455-463: The program. Content varies widely by episode. Stories are often told as first-person narratives . The mood of the show ranges from gloomy to ironic, from thought-provoking to humorous. The show often addresses current events, such as Hurricane Katrina in "After the Flood". Often This American Life features stories which explore aspects of human nature, such as "Kid Logic", which presented pieces on

4536-484: The protagonist's love interest Ryan Cooper in the black comedy revenge thriller film Promising Young Woman . The film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival , where it received critical acclaim, and was later nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture . In an interview, Burnham said, "This is a story I could never tell. This is a perspective I don't have. After doing my own things, it's like I really like

4617-643: The radio story and the monologue were fabrications. WBEZ canceled the planned live performance and refunded all ticket purchases. Airing that day, This American Life devoted the week's show (titled "Retraction") to detailing the inconsistencies in "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs". The show includes interviews between Rob Schmitz, the reporter who discovered the discrepancies, and Daisey's translator in China, Cathy Lee, as well as an interview between host Glass and Daisey. Daisey apologized for presenting his work as journalism, saying "It's not journalism. It's theater," but refused to acknowledge that he had lied—even in

4698-434: The reasoning of children. The majority of interviews with subjects never make it to the air, as many as 80 percent, because the team looks for interviewees who recount stories in a "particular way". The end credits of each show are read by Glass, and include a sound clip extracted out of context from some portion of that show, which Glass humorously attributes to previous WBEZ general manager Torey Malatia , who co-founded

4779-517: The registry for 2020. It was the first podcast episode ever chosen for inclusion in the registry. Discussions of a television adaptation of TAL date back to at least 1999. However, the show's creative team was unsure of what the show would "look like" and, with so much money on the line, turned down offers. In January 2006, Showtime announced it had greenlit six episodes of a new series based on TAL . The announcement noted that each half-hour episode would "be hosted by Ira Glass and [...] explore

4860-500: The series had a contract for a total of 30 shows over the four years, but after two seasons Glass announced that he and the other creators of the show had "asked to be taken off TV", largely in part to the difficult schedule required to produce a television program. He went on to state that the show is officially "on hiatus", but would like to do a television special at some point in the future. The episode "The Anatomy of Doubt" based on reporting by ProPublica and The Marshall Project

4941-409: The show in July, and that May, Glass announced that the staff would be distributing the show themselves, with Public Radio Exchange doing the technical legwork to deliver the audio to the radio stations. On October 1, 2014, the show produced a spinoff, Serial , a season-long exploration delivered as a podcast series. In 2015, Glass became the sole owner of This American Life ; WBEZ continued as

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5022-504: The show primarily represents the perspective of its "predominantly white, upper-middle-class, educated audience." He also said the show is "didactic ... extracting from the stories of others a lesson that is then instilled on the audience." In 1999, more than 800,000 people listened to This American Life each weekend on 332 public radio stations. By 2019, the show broadcast to 2.2 million listeners each week, with an additional podcast audience of 3.6 million. WBEZ-FM received

5103-510: The show to stations by giving away pledge drive ads he developed himself. By the end of 1999, TAL aired on 325 public radio stations, and, around that time, Rhino Records released a " greatest hits " CD of TAL episodes. In January 2011, the series was picked up by CBC Radio One in Canada . The program is shortened slightly for the Canadian broadcast to allow for a five-minute newscast at

5184-526: The show with Glass in 1995. Glass has stated he is contractually obligated to mention station WBEZ (and previously, also former distributor PRI) three times in the course of the show. In the early 1990s, Glass co-hosted, with Gary Covino, a Friday-night show in Chicago called The Wild Room. However, he was looking for new opportunities in radio, and had been sending grant proposals to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for two years when, in 1995,

5265-459: The show with two independent sensibilities. I love Gary. I loved Gary. But I didn't want to keep doing that show...and the notion that everything I brought to The Wild Room I got from him I find completely infuriating...I didn't want to do free-form radio anymore. I have no interest in improvisation. It might have been possible to design a show with him that he would have felt comfortable with and I would have felt comfortable with. But at that point—I

5346-533: The six-song Bo fo Sho , as an online release -only album on June 17, 2008. Burnham's first full album, the self-titled Bo Burnham , was released on March 10, 2009. Burnham has performed his music in the United States, including Cobb's Comedy Club , YouTube Live in San Francisco , and Caroline's Comedy Club in New York City , and internationally in London and Montreal . In August 2010, Burnham

5427-544: The songs from Inside and the outtakes, as well as all of the ambient and instrumental tracks from the special and its outtakes. Burnham reportedly submitted "Five Years" from The Inside Outtakes to the Best Song Written for Visual Media category at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards , though it was not nominated. At the 66th Annual Grammy Awards , Inside (Deluxe Box Set) was nominated for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package . Burnham's comedic style

5508-617: The special was ruled ineligible for Best Comedy Album . Three songs from the album ("Bezos I", "All Eyes on Me", and "Welcome to the Internet") earned Burnham his first charting songs on the US Bubbling Under Hot 100 and Global 200 charts. They were certified platinum in the United States, as was the accompanying album, Inside (The Songs) . Burnham directed, edited, and executive produced Carmichael's comedy special Rothaniel (2022), which received acclaim, including

5589-705: The story of an adolescent who took steps to become the superhero she dreamed of being, well into adulthood; and "Act V", about the last act of Hamlet as staged by inmates from a maximum security prison as part of Prison Performing Arts Adult Theatre Projects. Paramount Pictures and Broadway Video are in production on Curly Oxide and Vic Thrill , a film based on the TAL story in the episode "My Experimental Phase". This American Life ' s 168th episode, "The Fix Is In", inspired screenwriter Scott Burns to adapt Kurt Eichenwald 's book about business executive and FBI informant Mark Whitacre , titled The Informant , into

5670-450: The tape, then has the recording transcribed and makes note of any quotes of potential value in the story. He then arranges those quotes into a structured narrative. To edit each story, the reporter presents the show to other producers. Guests on the show have included Malcolm Gladwell and Michael Paterniti , who would normally command tens of thousands of dollars for an article but have settled for as little as US$ 200 per day to have

5751-465: The top of the hour, although this is partly made up for by the removal of mid-program breaks, most of the production credits (apart from that of Malatia), and underwriting announcements (CBC's radio services being fully commercial-free, except when contractually or legally required). In January 2012, This American Life presented excerpts from a one-man theater show The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs by Mike Daisey as an exposé of conditions at

5832-443: The writer and director of the drama film Eighth Grade (2018) and began directing other comedians' comedy specials, as well as co-starring in the dark comedy thriller film Promising Young Woman (2020). Burnham returned to performing with his fourth comedy special, Inside (2021), which he created in his home without a crew or audience during the COVID-19 pandemic ; it was released by Netflix to widespread acclaim, including

5913-632: Was adapted into the Netflix series Unbelievable . Stories from TAL have been used as the basis of movie scripts. In 2002 the show signed a six-figure deal with Warner Bros. giving the studio two years of "first-look" rights to its hundreds of past and future stories. One film to have emerged from the deal is Unaccompanied Minors , a 2006 film directed by Paul Feig and based on "In The Event of An Emergency, Put Your Sister in an Upright Position" from "Babysitting". Ira Glass and longtime TAL producer Julie Snyder were both executive producers on

5994-575: Was born in Hamilton, Massachusetts , on August 21, 1990, the son of hospice nurse Patricia and construction company owner Scott Burnham. His mother's work was covered in a 2014 episode of This American Life . He has an older sister named Samm and an older brother named Pete, both of whom work for their father's construction company. Burnham was raised Catholic and attended St. John's Preparatory School in Danvers, Massachusetts , where he received

6075-453: Was cancelled after one season. He also released a book of poetry called Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone . Burnham's second special, what. , was released on both Netflix and YouTube on December 17, 2013. His third special, Make Happy , was produced by Netflix and released on June 3, 2016. Burnham wrote and directed his first feature film, Eighth Grade , which was produced and distributed by A24 and premiered at

6156-474: Was distributed by Public Radio International until June 2014, when the program became self-distributed with Public Radio Exchange delivering new episodes to public radio stations. A television adaptation of the show ran for two seasons on the Showtime cable network between June 2007 and May 2008. Each week's show has a theme, explored in several "acts". On occasion, an entire program will consist of

6237-399: Was impossible sometimes to pinpoint which song people were asking about...". The show received positive reviews from the beginning. Marc Fisher with American Journalism Review drew attention to how the program's production style elicits "a sense of ease, informality and direct, unfiltered access", and "the effect is liberating". After remarking that producing so many stories each episode

6318-468: Was in my late 30s—I just wanted to do the thing I wanted to do." We always saw the show as an entertainment. We saw ourselves as designing a format in opposition to the way stories were structured on NPR. We talked about it as a public radio show for people who didn't necessarily like public radio. Glass to The New York Review of Books , August 2019 The show debuted on WBEZ in Chicago as Your Radio Playhouse on November 17, 1995. Glass conceived

6399-557: Was nominated for "Best Comedy Show" at the 2010 Edinburgh Comedy Awards after his inaugural performance (of Bo Burnham: Words, Words, Words ). He instead received the "Panel Prize", a £5,000 prize for "the show or act who has most captured the comedy spirit of the 2010 Fringe". While performing at the Montreal Just for Laughs festival in 2008, Burnham met with director and producer Judd Apatow . In September 2008, he negotiated with Universal Pictures to write and create

6480-432: Was spending eight hours a day writing the music for the film and spending his evenings writing the script. Burnham's high school friend Luke Liacos was co-writing the screenplay. In an October 2010 interview on MTV , Burnham admitted that he did not know anything about the future of the project, and that it was all effectively up in the air as far as he knew. On March 3, 2009, 15 Westminster College students (members of

6561-515: Was the first major public media program to use digital cinema , distributing a one-hour-long program titled This American Life – Live! to select cinemas. PRI originally conceived of the idea to serve stations around the country. This American Life Live! was presented exclusively in select theatres by National CineMedia 's (NCM) Fathom, in partnership with BY Experience and Chicago Public Radio, and in association with Public Radio International. On April 23, 2009, This American Life broadcast

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