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Jerrod Carmichael’s ‘Don’t Be Gay’ Proves the Comedian Is a Master Storyteller: TV Review
In his latest HBO comedy special, comedian Jerrod Carmichael reflects on what's happened in the years since he's come out.
Witty, brash, guttingly honest and slightly heartbreaking, in “Don’t Be Gay,” Carmichael is reconciling how much the fear of being outed made him forget about the one other thing that affects his everyday life: racism. Filmed this past February at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater in New York City, “Don’t Be Gay” opens with Carmichael standing on stage, a simple, velvet beige curtain acting as the backdrop behind him. He talks about his waffle obsession, using Grindr when he was hiding his sexuality, his family — particularly his hyper-religious mother, and how challenging it is to return to his childhood home in North Carolina, where his parents still live.
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