Jerrod Carmichael's Rothaniel is ultimately one of the saddest comedy specials you’ll ever see—and one of the most emotional and masterful performances by a comedian ever committed to tape. Read grmartin's review: JerrodCarmichael
We think secrets protect us, and sometimes they do. Is it worth it, though, if they’re simultaneously eating us up from the inside? That’s the crux of Jerrod Carmichael’s powerful stand-up special, his third for HBO, and his third overall. It’s a hilarious, brave, heartbreaking work about Carmichael coming out in his 30s, and how his Southern family reacts to his newly revealed homosexuality.
Carmichael’s comedy has always been defined by contrasts. He’s a quiet, soft-spoken, conversational comic whose gentle tone and drawled delivery teases out the audience’s attention, but he also has a contrarian streak. In his last HBO special, 2017’s, he’s low-key confrontational, challenging the presumed-to-be-respectable beliefs of a liberal audience, and highlighting how politics often lose out when pitted against comfort and convenience.
And then he turns the spotlight from his family to himself, telling the crowd packed into the Blue Note on a snowy night that he’s gay. Carmichael and the audience together sort through what that means, how his macho father and brother are unsure how to react, and how his mother simply refuses to acknowledge it or engage with her son about the man he is.is a therapy session.
Carmichael lays bare the trauma he’s experienced from telling his family who he really is, while also brilliantly exposing how society—and, crucially, his own mother—are more accepting of a straight man who serially cheats on his wife than they are a gay man simply existing. It’s both a refutation of the masculine environment Carmichael was raised in, and a brutally honest depiction of how difficult it is to escape the culture that formed you.
Senior editor Garrett Martin writes about videogames, comedy, travel, theme parks, wrestling, and anything else that gets in his way. He’s also on Twitter
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