GROSS: He delivers on that promise to reveal personal secrets - about his real name, his family tree and his sexual orientation. J CARMICHAEL: Welcome to the show, everybody. One of my biggest - one of my last held secrets is my name. J CARMICHAEL: I carried a lot of secrets my whole life. JERROD CARMICHAEL: I want to talk about secrets - secrets.
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He has a new HBO comedy special called 'Rothaniel.' What does that mean, right? Well, we soon find out. Maybe you saw him hosting 'Saturday Night Live' a couple of weeks ago. My guest is comic, actor and writer Jerrod Carmichael.
