In his stand-up sets, Jerrod Carmichael often takes a position he knows won't be popular with listeners and seems to dare them to doubt his sincerity.
Low-key, matter-of-fact, he shows impressive comfort with the prospect of disapproval; maybe knowing you have more charisma than you need makes it easier to be unsympathetic.
He certainly doesn't work for our approval in On the Count of Three, his directing debut. The story of a suicide pact that hits some speed bumps, scripted by Ramy co-creators Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch, it's hardly a black comedy —more an appropriately sour (last) day-in-the-life that affords a few bitter laughs along the way.
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