Rothaniel: This Only Works If We Feel Like Family with guest Tim Barnes

To conclude our first season on "Family Matters," we watched Jerrod Carmichael's 2022 comedy special Rothaniel with special guest Tim Barnes.

Tim helped us unpack this incredible special and Carmichael's discussion of family secrets, Black kinship and family experiences, coming out, and more. We also talk about Carmichael's relationship to other iconic Black comedians, especially Richard Pryor.

Spoilers: Chairs in stand-up comedy, the vibes of Bo Burnham, audience participation, edge-lords, looking directly into the camera.

Tim Barnes is a comedian and television writer whose absurdist humor brings light to social issues from unexpected angles. Tim has written for the Nickelodeon sitcom Warped!, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Nickelodeon's All That revival, Comedy Central, the NPR quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, and even documented his testicles once for Men's Health. Chicago Magazine named Tim one of the 16 Chicago Comics You Should Check Out... and The Chicago Tribune has described him as "a smooth wordsmith who is sharp, polished and confident..."

Please check out Tim's strange and fantastic short film, Inland Empire (a Vimeo Staff Pick!), which he wrote and stars in with his good friend Ian Abramson.

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Music by Kirk Rawlings from Courtesy and beige on beige

Cover art by Tuli Lane-McKinley