Jerrod Carmichael on Bringing Heart and Truth Back to the Sitcom

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Jerrod Carmichael’s NBC series The Carmichael Show takes an old-fashioned approach to the sitcom--complete with a live studio audience. Still, the show tackles topical issues from guns to religion. He tells us why he loves the multi-cam set-up and what other modern day sitcoms are missing.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Podcast.
0:03.1	Listen to the organist, the culturally omnivorous, intellectually ravenous podcast from the editors of the Believer magazine.
0:10.0	Part of poetry is learning how to speak.
0:13.6	Chili Billy.
0:15.8	I am also a horse.
0:17.4	I really value my life, even though I know it's debatable whether I'm even really alive.
0:22.5	The right reading for this is the one I'm giving it.
0:25.4	Find the organism on kCRW.com or wherever you download podcasts.
0:30.4	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.
0:36.8	Everyone's afraid. People are terrified.
0:39.4	People are really terrified to take any chance or take any swing.
0:43.2	And that's the only way to really make something successful,
0:46.2	especially in a genre that needs life reviving.
0:49.2	With the Carmichael show on NBC, 29-year-old creator and star,
0:53.5	Gerard Carmichael, is taking the old-fashioned
0:55.8	sitcom, complete with live studio audience, and throwing in topics like race and sex. That wasn't uncommon
1:02.6	in the Norman Lear era, but as Lear himself has observed, the networks haven't exactly gotten bolder with
1:08.0	time. Carmichael talks about the disagreement that led to a delay in announcing a third season renewal for his show and why he's committed to staying on a broadcast network. But first, it's the Hollywood news banterer Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter.
1:48.9	Hello, Matt.
1:49.9	Hi there.
1:51.0	So it is well known by now that Gretchen Carlson of Fox News, a longtime anchor on Fox News or talking head, has been let go. Her contract was not renewed, and she has sued
2:04.4	Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News, alleging that she was dropped because she did not succumb to
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from KCRW, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of KCRW and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.