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Name
  
Jerrod Carmichael

Role
  
Comedian

Nationality
  
American


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Genres
  
Observational comedy, satire

Subject(s)
  
African-American culture, human sexuality, pop culture, race relations, racism

Influences
  
Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy

Medium
  
Stand-up comedy, Television, Film, Acting, Writing

Influenced by
  
Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy

Movies and TV shows
  
Similar People
  
David Alan Grier, Loretta Devine, Nicholas Stoller, Amber Stevens West, Christopher Mintz‑Plasse

Profiles

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Jerrod Carmichael (; ; born June 22, 1987) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. Carmichael is best known for creating and playing the lead role in the semi-biographical NBC sitcom The Carmichael Show.

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Early life

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Carmichael was born and raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the son of Cynthia, a secretary, and Joe Carmichael, a truck driver. He has an older brother, Joe Carmichael, Jr. He grew up in the Morningside neighborhood. Carmichael grew up poor, which is a frequent topic in his stand-up comedy. In fifth grade, he hosted a morning news show on his elementary school's local access channel. He graduated from Robert B. Glenn High School in 2005.

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Carmichael's early comedic influences were stand-ups Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, Sinbad, and George Carlin.

Career

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At age 20, Carmichael moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of being a stand-up comic, before he had ever tried stand-up. His first time doing stand-up was an open-mic 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. Carmichael's breakout role was in the 2014 film Neighbors. He was also on the TV show The Goodwin Games.

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He has released two stand-up 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 stand-up. The second, Jerrod Carmichael: 8, was released on March 11, 2017. It was filmed in the New York Masonic Hall's Grand Lodge Room and directed by comedian Bo Burnham.

His eponymous NBC sitcom, on which he stars and is a producer, has been well-received and is notable for its envelope-pushing 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 semi-autobiographical.

References

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