It's not a Q&A, but occasionally, someone in the crowd throws out a follow-up question in response to something he's said, and Carmichael just goes with it, pausing, taking it in, and then thoughtfully engaging with that query a therapeutic call-and-response segment, as it were. We are all familiar with observational and conversational humor, but yours feels more investigational, as if youre working out ideas as they come to you on stage. Please do not put your URL in the comment text and please use your PERSONAL name or initials and not your business name, as the latter comes off like spam. How does he do it? Jerrod Carmichael: Yeah, like avoid a disaster. Tim Ferriss: I pinged Evan before we met up, as I mentioned, to try to get some bullets to talk about. Jerrod Carmichael: Yeah. You were talking about listening to music while working, right? A man just skated out on this is going to end very badly. Fr), Cook Islands (NZD Transcripts may contain a few typoswith some episodes lasting 2+ hours, its difficult to catch some minor errors. Jerrod Carmichael: I thought it was pretty milky, right? We didnt have a lot of money but it was great. Because people start looking for well, youve got to do this first. The last point he said was he has an eight-foot penis. Im very thankful. My mom was more nervous; my dad was really encouraging. Tim Ferriss: This is a Sunday; as context for people. Tim Ferriss: Were going to talk a lot about how you develop your material and process, but I remember one of the experiences I had in Atlanta. DUE TO SOME HEADACHES IN THE PAST, PLEASE NOTE LEGAL CONDITIONS: Tim Ferriss owns the copyright in and to all content in and transcripts of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, with all rights reserved, as well as his right of publicity. Because again, in this environment you dont want to make people uncomfortable. Because Im competitive, and you should be competitive at some point. I think I ignore more things than a lot of comedians. I was just doing a soliloquy up there; it wasnt comedy. I had skipped a few lines, HBO is written in big letters and I wrote just a couple of sentences of how I wanted it to look and feel. I just think hes a genius. Every day. 'Mandalorian' Funko Pops up to 77% Off Baby Yoda and More for Season 3, Who Plays the Armorer in 'The Mandalorian'? Jerrod Carmichael: That was the first time anyone had taped anything in there. Webmignon faget retired jewelry; should you squeeze the pus out of a spider bite. Tim Ferriss: Yeah, right. They had many, many different revisions of this script which, as I understand it. The third season of that show is premiering in this year, 2017. To wrap things up, I have to say that 8 feels like one of those career-defining specials. Jerrod Carmichael: Just selling them, man; just putting insoles in, trying to sell you on some cleaner, you know, doing the whole thing. I will put links to everything weve talked about in the show notes as per usual, and you can find those notes, links, as well as every other episode at fourhourworkweek.com/podcast, all spelled out: fourhourworkweek.com/podcast. And you can pick any world that youre involved with. Its so good. Yeah, in a business sense; a sense of realizing that it is an industry. Tim Ferriss: My understanding, just to talk about the original room, do they let cameras in there a lot? Tim Ferriss: We were talking about music, just to touch on that because Im able to work to certain types of music; generally instrumental, often electronic. Jerrod Carmichael: For instance, we were just talking about habits so its going to seem like it immediately contradicts it but even open mikes, I wouldnt do the exact same open mikes every time because you do what you do well and move on to the next place; stay in motion. But maybe a grey sweatshirt. Since the eighth grade, since discovering that, its kind of been a similar vibe for me. I also think Bo is really one of the most brilliant people Ive ever met. I call that one of my biggest mistakes; even going. ), Papua New Guinea (PGK I like to explore and search for the thoughts that I may have that a lot of times people may want to suppress or push asideI just like to explore them and talk about it on stage. What did your pregame look like? Fr), Caribbean Netherlands (USD And he said t o me, the important thing and Im paraphrasing but he said you want to keep the generating of ideas and the editing of ideas separate. And as you pointed out with the shiny business cards and the websites, the marketing can turn into a crutch and a tool for procrastinating doing the work. I wish I knew the author. Thats it, every morning. Jerrod Carmichael: Choosing the right friends; choosing the right people to be around that will spark certain things within you, and knowing how you can use each other and how you can contribute to each others lives. Its really fun. Jerrod Carmichael: Yeah, on Saturday night, my entire Saturday, I dont go out, really. I love that; thats what I live for. You tell yourself it will never happen again; it will but tell yourself that it wont and go do it again. But LA, it really is the best and you want to be around the best. Thats the other direction of what girls gonna want to sleep with me, Tim Ferriss: When you have to coil it around your waste like [inaudible] . Jerrod Carmichael: Oh, man. It just seems like a rare thing for artists these days, especially when everyone is encouraged to document everything. Jerrod Carmichael: Being a guy who clearly doesnt have a girlfriend. I realized as much as I love comedy theres a part of me that also doesnt like comedy [Laughs]. In the crudest of terms, he's airing his dirty laundry out in front of mixed company, an oft unspoken no-no within a lot of Black circles. It also defined and reflected what was going on in my life right now; these thoughts and emotions I just wanted to get out. Why are you doing that? One person was manning a keyboard, typing everything in. The language, it reminds me language-wise of Confederacy of Dunces; the language is so good. Whats interesting about comedy is you get to see a lot of immediate examples of what youre doing. You are welcome to share the below transcript (up to 500 words but not more) in media articles (e.g., The New York Times, LA Times, The Guardian), on your personal website, in a non-commercial article or blog post (e.g., Medium), and/or on a personal social media account for non-commercial purposes, provided that you include attribution to The Tim Ferriss Show and link back to the tim.blog/podcast URL. Jerrod Carmichael: I wish I remembered who wrote it but I read the Humphrey Bogart biography that I loved. Everything was personal and honest. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions. You know what I like about that book? I know style numbers, I know what department it is. Tim Ferriss: He has very good squat form. Its very literal. For the sake of clarity, media outlets are permitted to use photos of Tim Ferriss from the media room on tim.blog or (obviously) license photos of Tim Ferriss from Getty Images, etc. I like certain clothes. And yet, the moment in Home Videos went as quickly as it came, and when I asked him about it during our interview, he was very reluctant to turn the revelation into A Thing. Revealing the truth, accompanied by an asterisk is one way to look at it; another is that he seems to be trying to find the joy in working through all that hurt. Its really just a thing that people do to feel good about themselves, like the corporations do to feel good about themselves. Jerrod Carmichael: Yeah, exactly. Jerrod Carmichael: Very amazing squat form. Because this is someone who youre gong to work with a lot; youre going to have a lot of interactions with. So I was in the right space by the second show. I had a really creative childhood, I think. Jerrod Carmichael: The pyramid scheme of it all. Tim Ferriss: It took me a long tim to learn that a good contract doesnt make a good relationship. And it was just typed right in. ), Antigua & Barbuda (XCD Ill go back to that; Ill absolutely go back. Youve got to find it, and you want to compete and you have to gauge and take the temperature of whatever youre talking about. He has incredible energy. Then you say it, and then thats it. Jerrod Carmichaels latest stand-up special might be his most revelatory yet. Jerrod Carmichael: And then because of certain projects, I have to wake up early. I genuinely dont know. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. Now its, I actually really love it, after a year of just shitting on the special to my face in front of my nieces. It sounds super cheesy. I think on both ends, from the audience and from the artist. Very passionate. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Jerrod Carmichael: Yeah. It was like having information and then being able to put your own filter and manipulate it in your own way was so important to me. Jerrod stars in the hit NBC series The Carmichael Show, which he also writs and executive produces. Certain nights, you can kind of catch up but Ill read until 4 or 5 in the morning. Tim Ferriss: What other routines do you have that are important to you, or things you repeat? Yeah, this is genuinely hard. Is that a deliberate decision or is that just how the inner truths come out? A few years ago, I met comedian Jerrod Carmichael for lunch at ABC Kitchen, near Gramercy Park in Manhattan. So its not the typical fast cut, 18-year-old making videos for 12-year-olds set up. Jerrod Carmichael: Really anything that sticks out; how I feel about people, how I feel about me, what I want. By Daniel Fienberg. Jerrod Carmichael: Thank you. I want to let you get back to your day. Jerrod Carmichael: Dont get too comfortable while working. 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Jerrod Carmichael: Dont deny the experience. Tim Ferriss: It was great. And if you visit him on social media right now, he has zero posts on Twitter, on Instagram @jerrodcarmichael, and 2017 is going to be his biggest year yet. 3,375, This story has been shared 2,960 times. Jerrod Carmichael: You know, finish line. Tim Ferriss: Is there a particular way you end those calls? So I just walked around; it was great. So much going on in Los Angeles today. You know what I mean? I was like, I want information. There are a lot of people on a balcony. Ill let the silence do the work on this one. Tim Ferriss: I can look it up and Ill put it in the show notes for folks. Lisa was saying were going to go dancing, and I was like, really? Jerrod Carmichael: Oh, Kwami Nayeri. Id left a movie and I was just sitting outside loitering, just kind of thinking, being a weirdo. Your comedy feels like a direct response to that. Webjerrod carmichael 8 transcriptfast growing firewood trees australia jerrod carmichael 8 transcript Men university of virginia track and field coaches Dr. Seuss has a great quote: The people who dont mind dont matter, and the people who matter dont mind.. Jerrod Carmichael: You disregard it, and your looking for whats the real answer? Tim Ferriss: Your onstage persona seems, and maybe this will sound strange, a little darker than your in real life persona. Some people are really, really great at it. Jerrod Carmichael: Ill write down general and specific things. I just think nuance is whats missing. Sign up for the newsletter so you don't miss the next one, plus get weekly recommendations on what's making us happy. I really do trust that if Im honest in the moment if Im really honest with what I do time will record that honesty in my favor. Jerrod Carmichael: Its a certain amount of comfort on stage. Jerrod Carmichael: Yeah, Im around. Focus on the content. If you can get beyond that and just accept it and dont make yourself feel guilty about it, I really think a lot of principles in it can change your life. And if people are judging you because of that, then. Jerrod Carmichael: I have to just listen to it separately. Tim Ferriss: They of course have the power to say no, right? Probably dont listen to anybody. When I first moved to LA it was August 8, 2008. Jerrod Carmichael: I was outside a movie theater and I was doing it and everyone was glowing. $), So Tom & Prncipe (STD WebThis marks the third HBO standup comedy special for Jerrod Carmichael, who made his HBO debut in 2014 with the stand-up special Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store, which was That's part of what's so beautifully moving about Rothaniel, Carmichael's latest HBO special which premiered last weekend. If I heard someone talk about oh, I want to find a bar to go watch the game at, while that sounds fun and Im really happy for you, I also know that were just doing two different things. Jerrod: Yeah, no. I wasnt doing anything. Mort Sahl checked his notes. If Im sitting with someone and the deal theyre pitching sounds great but I just feel off around them, I pay more attention to that now. .), Sierra Leone (SLL Jerrod Carmichael: People focus on the wrong things. I want to have an exchange. I play it sometimes and try and write it but I just want to figure it out. J Zee, Steve Jobs, Jerry Seinfeld, Oprah. Jerrod Carmichael: No. Tim Ferriss: He walked me through and hes like: yeah, and heres the table; you see all the scratch marks from razor blades? Then we sat down; we had a bite to eat maybe 20 minutes ago and you had scrambled eggs and blueberries. So we do talk about focus and how he went from East Coast to West Coast and got all of this done. Tim Ferriss: Have another glass of water. People dont know how free they are. Do you remember the title? I wanted it to go past jokes; I didnt want to just tell you jokes. Maybe loitering outside of a movie theater; probably walking around LA or New York. $), North Macedonia (MKD You mentioned the food, which for me is extremely key. Would you say thats an accurate description? But to answer the question above: Jerrod Carmichael is doing better than OK.8 is his second hour-long special for HBO in just three years, following the success of his Spike Lee-helmed Love at the Store. Meaning you didnt want to do it where you didnt feel the scene was strong? Tim Ferriss: Is there anything in your creative process for developing material that is unusual when you describe it to other standup comedians or other people? The first taping, I was too aware of the production and that same night You do two shows so the second show was just kind of like Im not thinking about the production at all. Jerrod Carmichael really didnt want to talk about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock during his Saturday Night Live monologue this week. It has been selected for "Best of Apple Podcasts" three times, it is often the #1 interview podcast across all of Apple Podcasts, and it's been ranked #1 out of 400,000+ podcasts on many occasions. Tim Ferriss: Where all the comedians are doing lines. I wanted it just to be real and an exploration, like these certain words that are captured. Tim Ferriss: Hes also a very atypical YouTube star in the sense that its the Shaytards, its Shay and his family, a bunch of kids in Utah. Tim Ferriss: Do you remember his or her name? I would rather be that guy than just what, youre going to just hang out? I saw her and it was like yeah, she had really milky skin. Because of that certain amount of exclusivity, I think it was a good first time for them. Evan, at least that night was fun. Thats just bad grammar. 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