Comic Jerrod Carmichael Reveals His Secrets

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🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In his new HBO comedy special, Rothaniel, Carmichael opens up about his real name, his family tree, and his sexual orientation. We'll go deeper into these issues — and talk about how being honest about them changed his comedy and his life. "The more honest I am, the freer I am," he says.

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0:00.0	This is fresh air, I'm Terry Gross.
0:02.6	My guest is comic actor and writer, Gerard Carmichael.
0:06.5	Maybe you saw him hosting Saturday Night Live a couple of weeks ago, he was really funny.
0:10.8	He has a new HBO comedy special called, Rathanyl.
0:14.3	What does that mean, right?
0:15.7	Well, we soon find out.
0:17.3	The special is all about secrets.
0:19.6	It starts like this.
0:20.9	I want to talk about uh...
0:22.7	Secrets.
0:24.5	Secrets.
0:26.5	So whisper it, right?
0:29.0	I carried a lot of secrets my whole life.
0:31.3	I feel like I was birthed into them.
0:34.5	One of my biggest, one of my last held secrets is my name.
0:40.8	My name is not Gerard.
0:44.8	Welcome to the show, everybody.
0:48.0	He delivers on that promise to reveal personal secrets about Israel name,
0:52.2	his family tree, and his sexual orientation.
0:55.2	It's a lot.
0:56.5	Toward the end, when he's interacting with the audience, his show starts to look like a hybrid of a comedy show and a therapy session.
1:03.6	Carmichael has done two other HBO comedy specials, Love at the Store, directed by Spike Lee,
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