Funny Comedy Short Sees Burning Man Bro Getting Schooled on Parenting

Director Kevin Oeser has released sharp funny comedy short titled How is Fatherhood? which see a new dad try to “explain why he can't go to Burning Man to a loser who doesn't have kids.”

The film stars Bob Turton who delivers an overblown monologue to fellow Burner Avi Rothman, who doesn’t have kids, about why he can’t make it to the playa anymore.

He tells him, “I can’t go to Burning Man this year. I have a kid now. …How is fatherhood? How is fatherhood? … It’s just that fatherhood is so far beyond description to someone who doesn’t have kids …In a word, fatherhood is indescribable.

“But in many words, it’s thrilling, terrifying, disease-ridden, sublime. It’s an existence in which the entire fate of the world at once ceases to matter and also rests upon my every decision. It is literally everything.”

Rothman’s character doesn’t miss a beat, countering with pure Burner optimism. Instead of taking the dad’s grandiose speech to heart, he simply suggests that the festival can come to him.

“Hey, man. If you can’t go to Burning Man, the burn is coming to you. …Anything’s possible with the burn. Come on, Daft Punk is playing at the trash fence.”

It’s a great comedic clash between self-serious fatherhood and the unshakable spirit of Burning Man, making the film aclever and funny entry in Oeser’s growing list of shorts that parody the eccentricities of modern life.