Langston Kerman

Langston Kerman is an American actor, writer, and comedian. He is best known for portraying the role of Jered on HBO's Insecure. His first comedy album, Lightskinned Feelings, was released on September 28, 2018, the same day as his Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents special of the same name. The album was named to Vulture's list of 10 Best Comedy Albums of 2018.

Kerman was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. His mother is African American and his father is white and Jewish. He attended college at University of Michigan and received his bachelor's degree in English in 2009. After college he returned to his hometown and taught poetry at his former high school for one year. Kerman later received an MFA in poetry at Boston University and then decided to pursue a full-time career in stand-up comedy.

Kerman has acted in shows such as on Adam DeVine's House Party, High Maintenance, Strangers, and Comedy Bang! Bang!. He was selected by host Chris Rock to write for the 2016 Academy Awards.

In 2016, he appeared in his first recurring acting role as Jered on the first season of Issa Rae's scripted comedy series Insecure. The role led to wider notoriety.

In September 2018, Kerman was featured in his own Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents special, Lightskinned Feelings. On the same day he also released an hour-long comedy album of the same name, which was recorded at Punchline Comedy Club in San Francisco. It was named to Vulture's 10 Best Comedy Albums of 2018.

Kerman has a voice-over role in IMDb's 2019 animated series You're Not a Monster. He also appeared in the 2019 Comedy Central series The New Negroes, and is a writer for the series South Side, also on Comedy Central.

Kerman got married on October 5, 2019.