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Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Tyler the Creator called Jerrod Carmichael A STUPID BITCH as Jerrod Carmichael is seen sucking hookup white man toes in viral reality show footage.
Carmichael, pausing for several moments in reflection while sitting in front of audience performing stand-up. “I fell in love with my best friend,” he eventually tells us, adding: “One out of 10, don’t recommend.”
The Gist: We cut to a flashback scene with Tyler (if you don’t clock it immediately, we’ll all find out later it’s Tyler the Creator), with Carmichael narrating from the stage how he had revealed his feelings to the rapper, only to be rebuffed later in a voice memo saying “hahaha you stupid bitch,” which Carmichael then recounted to his therapist.
Someone in the comedy audience hearing this story shouts out, “tell the truth!” But Carmichael has other ideas. He wants to show us his new truth. Why? “Cameras make me feel more comfortable,” he says directly to the camera in a self-taped confessional. “I keep saying I want to live more truthfully.” And off we go, and even the camera crew gets captured on camera.
Finally, he speaks: “I fell in love with my best friend.”
Right away, we get a sense of what this show is going to be: an unsparing, unblinking look into the life of Jerrod Carmichael as he navigates the early years of living life openly as a gay man. We’re going to be looking at love and sex and homophobia and religion and fame and family and farts. And after this first episode, there are questions that need answering, like who was Anonymous, and are Tyler, the Creator and Carmichael still friends?
I spoke with Jerrod about the show—for a profile you can read here on Monday—and even he has trouble explaining exactly what he’s trying to accomplish with this project. “I’ve been trying to talk about the show and sound articulate, and it’s not easy. Basically, I’m one of Cesar Millan’s dogs,” he says, referencing Dog Whisperer. “It’s like interviewing the Chihuahua about why he peed on the rug. Like, I don’t know what to tell you. It’s not J-Lo’s This Is Me…Now.”
It is going to get uncomfortable. It is, in fact, going to start uncomfortable.
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