I’ve been a fan since 2010 when I originally saw his first Comedy Central special and have been fortunate enough to watch him evolve, mature, grow, and fine tune his comedy and art. I believe him to be a very special, one of a kind, performance artist, and dare I say, genius. Over time, I have begun to realize that Bo is a character played by Robert, the man. That’s not to say Bo is phony or inauthentic in any way. Bo is born out of Robert’s truth, experience, and exaggerated hyperbole. Where I realized this, only for a brief moment, after years of growing with Bo, is during “Make Happy” where he turns Bo off and delivers this speech as Robert. It resonates with me more than anything else he has ever said or done. It’s as real as he can be.

"But what is this show 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, you know, professionally. And as a comedian, what you’re supposed to do… You’re supposed to 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. 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, you 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… it’s like the me generation. It’s not. It’s not… The arrogance is taught or it was cultivated. It’s… it’s self-conscious. That’s what it is. It’s the… 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 everything to each other all the time for no reason.” It’s prison, it’s horrific. It is 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."