The Carmichael Show

  • NewsYahoo TV

    ‘Insecure’ Is Coming Back Strong

    Review: Issa Rae's HBO's comedy 'Insecure' is even better in Season 2.

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    ‘The Carmichael Show’ Shouldn’t Have Been Canceled

    Show co-creator Jerrod Carmichael was interested in exploring topics that network TV usually doesn’t touch.

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    ‘The Carmichael Show’ Is Back: Here’s Why You Should Watch

    Season 3 of “The Carmichael Show” gets a little preachy but still has sting, says Ken Tucker.

  • NewsKen Tucker

    Hillary Clinton’s Pop Culture Problem

    Over the long weekend, episodes of two shows aired that offered suggestions as to why Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign isn’t winning the pop-culture conversation to the degree that Donald Trump’s and Bernie Sanders’s are. In Sunday’s extraordinary, give-’em-all-an-Emmy episode of HBO’s Veep, the title told you basic theme: “C**tgate.” Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ President Selina Meyer became aware that someone on her staff has called her the c-word and she tried to find and excoriate the culpri

  • NewsDave Nemetz

    Jerrod Carmichael on His Old-School NBC Sitcom: 'I'm a Believer in No Hook. Just Characters'

    With a buzzy HBO stand-up special already under his belt, Jerrod Carmichael might seem like the hip, young comic on the block. But his inspirations are a little more old-school than you might expect. “Norman Lear was a big influence for me,” Carmichael tells Yahoo TV, explaining the retro vibe of The Carmichael Show, premiering this week on NBC. He also name-checks Bea Arthur (!)

  • NewsKen Tucker

    'The Carmichael Show': A Likable Laugh-Getter

    No one is going to say The Carmichael Show is a groundbreaking sitcom, but it’s certainly a likable and, with some regularity, a funny one. It stars Jerrod Carmichael, whose stand-up comedy act is distinctively amusing. Carmichael has a calm, measured delivery on a stage, and frequently makes jokes with an absurdist edge.  On The Carmichael Show, he plays a version of himself, using his real name and appearing as a nice guy with a nice girlfriend, Maxine (the charming Amber Stevens West) and a