Jerrod Carmichael calls out Dave Chappelle for poking fun at his HBO special, in which he came out as gay.
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, the 36-year-old performer addressed his own remaining discomfort with calling himself gay, pointing to the behavior of his own industry as a reason why. "I still think saying you’re gay is saying something's wrong with you," he tells the magazine."And so much of comedy is just gay jokes. As long as people continue to laugh at it and mock it, and as long as it’s a punchline, it’s going to be scary for somebody. It's scary for me."Rebuffed Carmichael,"That’s a funny enough line, whatever, but I wonder if he gets the irony that the fact that you are mocking it even then is why it was hard.
If there was a question of contention between the fellow comedians, Carmichael made it crystal clear with his latest comments, referring to Chappelle as an"egomaniac" andJerrod Carmichael called veteran comedian Dave Chappelle an 'egomaniac' in a new interview with 'Esquire.' -, "I think, a lot of times, people who offer nothing truthful or meaningful about themselves then complain about society at large and create this boogeyman.
"I was happy. It was nice. It was actually nice," Carmichael previously told ET of his Emmy win."Honestly, you know what makes it feel good is that it’s heavy… It’s actually heavy and it feels substantial."
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