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Jerrod Carmichael

lines on the record: 128
first: 2017-02-18
most recent: 2017-02-18
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Yeah, a friend of mine recommended it to me. And it just wanted to, I mean, I'm sure a lot of people have read it. One, I can't remember the...”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It reminds me of like. Language wise of the Confederacy of Dunces, the language is so good. It's so I literally was like driving around repeating sentences from the book just over and over. It's so good.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's fun. It's really fun. I like biographies and I like never been a guy that got into novels and we were talking about science fiction books earlier because I always like information. I want information, you know, like, and then I'll create a thing, but I just want information. But I read the book, The Sell Out.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was raining and I had two hours for it. It was late. I should have been asleep, but I was like, oh, it's raining. I was leaving dinner. And I was like, oh, I'm just going to go on a walk. I was like, I was on my way back to my place. And I was like, no, I'm just going to go on a walk. And I didn't think it was going to be that long, but it was like two hours in the rain. The hood off kept the hood off. Just let it. Yeah, it was great.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A lot of times I like taking in other content. So maybe watch a movie, watch something that's interesting, read a book, go on a walk. I haven't been walking as much as I used to. I used to walk around all the time. I did the other night in the rain. It was one of the greatest nights ever. I just walked around in the rain for like two hours and listened to Marvin Gett.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Or it's someone's burp. I don't know why I immediately went to a negative, like, oh, there's no way this ends good. There's no way. There's definitely domestic abuse going on in there. I mean, if you see something, say something, but I'm saying something”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Across the street. And screaming on a balcony. And it looks like it's going to end horrible. A man just skated out on a belt. Oh, it's going to end very bad.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, it's necessary. It's a necessary natural, you can try and get yourself out of it. You just kind of have to release it. And maybe a lot of times I realize for me, it means that I'm holding on too tight and I'm trying too hard maybe a certain thing. And I just need to let it go”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Mean, as a kid, if you don't know exactly who you are, then it leaves room for so many questions. And that's self-doubt manifesting itself in that form of just questioning everything about you. And once you kind of figure that out, so truthfully humor played a big role in that. So I'm kind of have a similar demeanor since the eighth grade, I think since the eighth grade, since discovering that it's kind of been a similar, you know, vibe for me. Just like, you know, I know what I'm good at. I know what my abilities are. Anything else? I don't really care about.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I tried to keep it honest to any performance. That one, I remember just being in the back. And I remember there being like a couple too many people in the green room. You got to kind of ask to leave. And just want to think about jokes. And the first tape and I was too aware of the production and then the... That same night we do two shows. So then the second show was just kind of like, yeah, I'm not thinking about the production at all. I just want to think about the material because that's what we wanted to capture. So I was in the right space by the second show. The first show was still kind of a producer, you know, and I was still cameras and this type of thing and a bit more, you know, hands-on. And then the second show was just”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Socially, you have certain cautions. I'm sorry. You have certain cautions and certain things that you don't want to cross because, again, in this environment, you don't want to make people uncomfortable. They didn't sign up for that, right? But I try and enter stage with zero fear Zero fear, and just yeah, this is what I wanted to say”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know the real or the conversation, the better, like, you know, small talk is obviously boring and you don't want to get caught up in that type of thing. But. I'm just so comfortable sharing, you know, it's just something that kind of clicks and you're just like, oh, okay, this and.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah, it's super delightful and not the place for some of my darkest thoughts and like things that I want to explore. I mean, I'm open to any conversation. I actually prefer.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's a certain amount of comfort on stage. I'm in this environment where I can share these thoughts no matter how dark or how Weird, they may be, it's like you know in this lovely setting, I wish we could see just this in this lovely setting.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. You make this thing and then you figure out all right. Well, how do we get this in the right hands? How do we make sure the right people see and hear this?”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, like you have to be aware of what the audience is seeing a business sense, like a sense of realizing that it is an industry. You know, it is because a lot of times comedians get frustrated with certain things, but it's like, yeah, that's part of any of business, like, you know, understanding business to a certain extent is really important. I think having an appreciation for it helps too. Know if you can learn to appreciate the, you know, it's heart with art because you want to keep it separate and you want to make something that's pure, but you also want to know how to market it. And you also want to know how to, you know, that's really important.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Good from great. I think honesty, and by honesty, I mean just like your own truth, whatever excites you, whatever you're excited to perform or say or do on stage, being honest to that, an understanding of perception. Because as a performer. You have to know how this is coming across, right? And you have to adjust accordingly because, you know, sometimes you want to make sure the intention is showing and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes you think you're being like, oh, I'm just, I get on stage. I'm so, you know, like I'm honest and these things. And it may seem like you're just bullshitting.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, those that are named are great. I mean, you know, it's hard to say Cosby now to someone without being a slew of other questions. But, I mean, as far as a comedian, he was excellent. And I mean, his rhythm and control over a room was great. Chris Rock, man, it's hard.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, he's, I mean, because he was honest, right? So Richard Pryor for honesty, Bo Burnham, he's a friend of mine, but I mean it wholehearted. Like Bo Burnham, because he's one of my favorite people to just watch perform. He's such a performer. He's like, your eyes never move away from him while he's on stage. You're always excited and he's one of the most brilliant people I've ever met. Oh, that's a good one. That's a good, what's a good... That third spot is hard because it's like, you know, Lewis Black has amazing time in. And draws people in in such a great way. Ellen DeGeneres is soaked. I told her, I did a show and I told her, I was like, you got to do stand up again. She was really good at stand. Oh man, that's it doesn't have to”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, ooh, that's interesting. Richard Pryor, I mean, just for being raw, you got to say Richard, right? He's the Tupac of comedy Every list.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“People focus on the wrong things. There are a lot of comedians who aren't funny at all or don't have stage presence but have excellent websites. They have excellent websites and the shiniest business cards and the headshots are impeccable. And who gives a fuck? You know what I mean? Like, they focus on the wrong things. If you focus on, and we actually just talked about that, like if you focus on the work.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not really. Yeah, this was in Texas, where it's Southby. Yeah, we're in Southbot, and it was like, Lisa was saying, we're going to go dancing. I was like, oh, really? I was like, I never really went to just a dance, like that type of dance, but I'd never done it before. So we went. It was fun. It was like, it was really fun. I don't think I've been. It was fun. I'm waiting for Evan and Lisa to take me again. But it was really, really fun. That's true. It's so rare that I go out. And I'm trying right now. I haven't done stand up in a little while. I'm trying to. Try to squeeze in a few more new experiences and things like that when I can, but I find myself getting bored constantly. Like if I'm not working, I get bored. Evan, at least that night was fun.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My parents definitely hard workers. I'm really lucky to be able to do something that I enjoy a lot and so focus all my time and energy into that. Yeah, I like because, again, I like focusing on things that matter. You know, you go into a nightclub, right? You go to a nightclub, there's a lot of good looking people hanging out, right? The thing that really changes the energy is when someone who's accomplished something walks in, right? Like, you know, like you walk in and it's just people that there are some people just there to party and there are certain people there as like just a brief escape from Doing something, and those are the people. So I would rather be that guy than just You're just going to hang out”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In two different channels, like it's like, wait, why are we gonna find a what? I mean, watch it on your phone in between writing or in between doing what you do. What why are you doing that?”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You can kind of see it in certain people, you know, one of my best friends, Ari, we both have such small socialized, virtually non-existent socialized that it just works. Like we aren't, you know, we'll go work like right after this, I'll go meet up with them and we'll go right. We enjoy it. It is so fun. And we don't get like it's not like if I heard someone talk about like, oh, I want to find a bar to go watch the game at, while that sounds fun and I really, I'm really happy for you. I also know that we're just doing two different things.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, on Saturday night, my entire Saturday, I don't go out really. Do too much. Every now and then, but for the most part, like just work and my friends think like that.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but it is that. It is that. And so That was really useful. Surrounding yourself with like-minded people, all my friends, the thing that I feel luckiest with is like the group of people that I'm around. I really have excellent friends who care about making things and creating and like don't get caught up in trivial things that won't matter tomorrow. Like we don't get caught up in things that don't matter tomorrow. Don't get me wrong. We like new experiences and we like having fun. But we like work. I mean, I was at my office with friends until Six this morning, five or six this morning, just like just work. And it's a Sunday.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Don't get too comfortable, you know, like while working, you know, like while that sounds like the complete opposite of what I just said, but I mean it for doing standup and like that type of thing. Don't hit up the same spot”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think. For instance, don't go, we're just talking about habits, so it's going to seem like it immediately contradicts it. But even open mics, I wouldn't do the exact same open mics every time because you do it, you do well, and then move on to the next place. Like stay in motion, you know, and that's specifically for, you know, what I was doing. I'm sure it applies to other things too. Don't stay in one spot too long, you know.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wanted to say on a, and so I have to just listen to it separately. I can think to it, you know, and like, just, but if I'm like writing or if I'm. Trying to work on something really specific, like just silence.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I want to figure it out. I play it sometimes and try and write, but I just want to figure it out. It's like, man, where does Miles Davis doing right now?”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The people that matter realize that all that you should focus on is the work. Right now, clothing or all these things as it relates to work are important. It's a lot of intention behind, like I said, like wardrobe for the show with that type of thing. I think about that because I think everything should have some type of intention behind it. But as far as just like, I look, I mean, make you feel good. I mean, obviously clothing can, you know, make someone feel good, but focus on like focus on something of substance that means something, you know, and that's why, because if you in a creature of habit works so good because you don't spend a lot and you were talking about like listening to music while working, right? If you spend all of your energy trying to figure out where you are and reorient yourself, like, like, all right, well, what is this? And you're looking around, you're not focused on what you're supposed to focus on. So you go to the same place, you sit in the same spot, and you just, so then you can ignore everything and you can just, you know, be directed inward.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah. And we're all the comedians. There's a little piano in one of the green rooms, and it's a little tiny glass piano, not a real piano. It's just a table, a coffee table, it looks like one. It's so many lines. My friend Angelo used to like to point to the lines and assign them to certain comedians like, oh, there's Richard Pryor's assign it to his”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They're both incredible. I'm so thankful for them. And really, it was like Brian Callan, Dove, David Off, Bret Ernst would look out for me, Al Magriger would look out, and all these people were just really Bill Byrr was so nice to me. But Brian and Dove bought me a car. Because I was like walking, they're like, you shouldn't do it. And I got a text. Go pick up your car. We done a weekend in La Jolla. And then on that Monday, I just got a text. I go pick up your car. And I mean, it was one of the nicest things. Brian is amazing.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah, just say, hey, but let us release this. This was HBO, you know, and because of that certain amount of exclusivity, I think it was a good first time for them. Yeah. I think some people have recorded in there since, especially in that room.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But on the 35th time, smile more, you add a little. We were just pretty, I mean, that room had been very special to me, and it just kind of worked out. I'm very thankful they had never done it before, but there was no reason to not do it just because you've never done it before. So, you know, I guess you were able to convince them HBR. I wasn't just bringing, you know, it wasn't just like.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, we were pretty persistent. I had a really specific vision, me and my friend Andrew, talked about specifically what it would look like and what that first special would be. And so it just had to be that room. So it was just pretty insistent.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Where? Where you know what I mean? You can do whatever you want. You can, and people don't accept that. People don't know how free they are.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Go do it again. But honestly, sometimes the bombing indicates that you're going to, you know, some type of new territory for you. And only you know you. So sometimes it's good. It's a good thing. It's kind of like a cleansing, you know. And so you can't run from it. Tell yourself it'll never happen again. It will, but tell yourself that it won't and go do it again. And stop, you know, a lot of, I wonder if it's like this, and I mean, I know comedy really well, but everyone's like kind of looking for like rules. To follow, and the sooner you realize there aren't any, the better art can be. Because people start looking for like, well, you got to do this first and you, you know, for that first special, I remember I got a lot of flack from, especially like older comics and just like, he's checking his notes on HBO. But is this kid doing?”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Original room of the comedy. So, yeah. And it's August and the sun is up and they're just comedians in the back. So I guess technically I didn't bomb, but it wasn't a soliloquy. I was just doing a soliloquy up there. It wasn't comedy. I just went up and did, yeah, just kind of talked and talked way too fast and got off the stage.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The sun was up. I was competing against the sun. And it's this giant window, and it's where I taped my first special is like the giant window at the comedy.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's it every morning. You don't think about it, it's just in stacks. I just had stacks of the shirts and stacks of the pants and just grab the one off the top.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, clothes are fun. You know, I like certain clothes. And I'll go through a phase and just, and I'm picking out a lot of wardrobe for the show and stuff like that. So I'm thinking about clothes. But you actually want intention behind everything. So, you know, I was just wearing the same thing. It was perfect. I'll go back to that. I'll absolutely go. Yeah, I'll go back to that.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I was wearing the same, I bought like a lot of the same shirt. It was just white sweatshirt, gray pants, like Timberland's every day. Every day it worked in any place that I went. That's what I like. It worked everywhere. I'll go to your wedding in this thing. And just the same thing. Because it took out so much time in my morning.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, breakfast, well, whatever time breakfast is, but yeah, for years. Blueberries and eggs. I feel great. Blueberries and eggs, you know, and I used to do almonds, nailed walnuts. Start the day. You know, like that's the I'm a creature of habit, you know, and I like the restaurant and I like everything to kind of move efficiently. I like the rhythm you walk into a restaurant, you know what you're getting, you know, you bring friends, they're familiar with you, you're familiar with them.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Drink more water. My mom and dad, like, I every day just like how much water did you drink? Like, it's the question. So I'm more combative than she is. She's in such a great constant state of zen. And I'm just like, but how much, you know, I'm like fussing at her about”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Before jumping Kind of a sweet, I love you, you know, like a sweet or me, I'm more aggressive than she is. So me, you know, like, hey, make sure I'm trying to make sure my parents are hydrated. So I'm like, bust at her about water every morning. I'm just like, all right, mom, you know, like another glass of water. Yeah, have a couple liters today, which is insane to her.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. Exactly. Because that first moment, like, you know, you just jump into a thing. You know, like you want to center yourself first.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Kind of general, what are you doing today? Just curious, but I'm very curious what she's doing, what she's interested in. You know, like I talk to her for a few minutes, and then I'll do other calls. But you want to start it, you know, in a very peaceful place and then yell about marketing for now.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because I don't want to start my day with I don't like noise. You know, I don't like too much noise as a helicopter flies above, right? I don't like noise. My mom has a great spirit, like one of the purest people that I know. She doesn't overcomplicate anything. She has such a grace. I love starting. I won't take business calls before I talk to her. My sister as well, like the first call of my day is really important. So sometimes I'll talk to my sister first as well if my mom's too busy for me or something. But like, I actually really like starting a day. Very peaceful, brief conversation, you know, see what she's doing”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT