Fans of Bo Burnham saw a lot of the comedian during his Netflix special Bo Burnham: Inside — both physically and emotionally. At 1 point, he appears fully naked.

Burnham has frequently made fun of his advent in his standup and on diverse social media platforms. The comedian towers over his girlfriend, Hustler'due south managing director Lorene Scafaria. His height is now helping him get certain roles. And so, merely how tall is Bo Burnham?

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When people tell him he's tall, Bo Burnham has a comeback

In 2014, Burnham appeared on The Pete Holmes Show, where he joked almost his height. "Y'all've heard obviously, 'Oh, you're tall. Practise you play basketball? I get that a lot," Burnham told Holmes, who is slightly shorter than the musical comedian.

"I finally heard the comeback. It'due south not mine," Burnham said. Holmes then preceded to go on with the bit ask Burnham if he played basketball.

"No. Practice you play mini-golf?" Burnham replied to the audition's adulation. "Were you a jokey? Were your parents brusque?"

Later he told another elevation-based joke. "Another ane is they say, 'How's the atmospheric condition upwardly there?' And you lot say, 'It's raining,' and then spit in their face."

The 'Inside' star does not like his peak

While nearly men would give anything to exist over 6' feet, Bo Burnham is not a fan. "I'm 6'5 — vi'6 on a good day. I'd practise anything to be like six'1 or 6'2." Burnham revealed to Holmes.

"I'chiliad just getting into sort of freakdom. Like I wing a lot, and the airplane's hugging my knees."

Burnham was also tall in his late teenage years, where he turned to theater, not sports, to express himself. "When I hit puberty in high school, I grew so apace. I grew like half-dozen inches my sophomore year, and I had stretch marks on my spine from growing and so fast."

Like well-nigh teenage boys, Burnham used the opportunity to gain attention and cred with his fellow classmates. "I was in theater, and I told my theater friends that [the stretchmarks was from] a daughter who had scratched my back from sexual practice. But they were thick and brown-like bear claws. Nosotros were theater kids, so we didn't know the departure."

Bo Burnham will play NBA legend Larry Bird

Burnham'due south height is not only giving him comedy textile only job opportunities. HBO appear in March 2021 that the stand-up comedian would play Boston Celtics player Larry Bird in an upcoming Television set series. The bear witness volition wait into i of basketball's almost revered dynasties, the 80s lakers. Information technology is based on Jeff Pearlman's 2014 book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s.

One of Bird's advantages on the basketball courtroom was his 6'9 stature. He and Magic Johnson's (ironically also vi'9) friendship and rivalry put the country's attention back on basketball.

Burnham is merely four inches shorter than the NBA legend. The two not only accept their peak in mutual. Bird played for the Boston Celtics his unabridged career. Burnham grew up in Massachusetts.