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‘SNL’: Jerrod Carmichael Talks Coming Out, Refuses To Talk About Will Smith’s Oscars Debacle In Opening Monologue

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“Thank you. Thank you very, very much. I’m not going to talk about it,” actor-comedian Jerrod Carmichael said up top, in his first opening monologue as host of SNL. “I want to be clear up top: I’ve talked about it enough, kept talking about it, kept thinking about it.

I don’t want to talk about it, and you can’t make me talk about it.”While Carmichael seemed at first to be referencing the fact that he’d recently come out as gay in his new HBO comedy special, Rothaniel, it turns out that he was, in fact, more than happy to address that particular situation.Carmichael said he hopes people will watch the special and referenced coming out, to cheers from the crowd, which he called “an expected response” in New York.“It’s actually why I live here.

If you say you’re gay in New York, you can ride the bus for free and people just give you pizza. Honestly, if you’re gay in New York, you get to host Saturday Night Live,” he joked. “This is the gayest thing you could possibly do.

Like, I came out right onto the stage. We’re basically in an Andy Warhol fever dream right now.”If Carmichael is comfortable speaking about his sexuality, he’s less comfortable speaking about the Oscars debacle which saw Best Actor winner Will Smith slap presenter Chris Rock in the face, after the comic made a joke at the expense of his wife, Jada Pinkett. “I’ve got a question—do you want to talk about it?

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