Jerrod Carmichael

Rothaniel Jerrod Carmichael is a standup comedian actor and writer Carmichael created and starred in the semibiographical NBC sitcom The Carmichael Show At the age of 20 Carmichael moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of being a standup comic before he had ever tried standup His first time doing standup was an openmic night at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood Working his way up through the clubs Carmichael appeared in the New Faces showcase at the 2011 Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal Carmichaels breakout role was in the 2014 film Neighbors He was also on the TV show The Goodwin Games He has released three standup HBO comedy specials The first Jerrod Carmichael Love at the Store was released in 2014 It was directed by Spike Lee and filmed at The Comedy Store where Carmichael had first performed standup The second Jerrod Carmichael 8 was released on March 11 2017 It was filmed in the New York Masonic Halls Grand Lodge Room and directed by comedian Bo Burnham The latest Jerrod Carmichael Rothaniel also directed by Burnham won him his first Primetime Emmy Award and was notable for featuring the moment he came out as gay to the public His eponymous NBC sitcom on which he starred in and produced has been wellreceived and is notable for its envelopepushing approach to topical subjects like Black Lives Matter LGBT issues gun rights politics and the reality of being African American in the United States The show is semiautobiographical Carmichael made an appearance on Tyler the Creators fifth album Igor in 2019 narrating the album using short phrases to find logic in the title character Igors state of mind In the same year he was hired by Quentin Tarantino to cowrite a film adaptation based on the DjangoZorro crossover comic book series He created directed produced and starred in the HBO documentaries Home Videos and Sermon on the Mount which are autobiographical He starred in the comedy thriller film On the Count of Three in 2021 which was also his feature directorial debut In 2022 Carmichael hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time and hosted the 80th Golden Globe Awards In 2023 Carmichael starred in Academy Awardwinning film Poor Things directed by Yorgos Lanthimos In 2024 Carmichael will star in the Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show a documentary series revolving around his life