He has acted in shows including Insecure, High Maintenance, Bless This Mess, The Boys and English Teacher.

[3] Kerman later received an MFA in poetry at Boston University and then decided to pursue a full-time career in stand-up comedy.

[4][5] Kerman has acted in shows such as on Adam DeVine's House Party, High Maintenance, Strangers, and Comedy Bang!

[1] In 2016, he appeared in his first recurring acting role as Jered on the first season of Issa Rae's scripted comedy series Insecure.

[6] On September 28, 2018, Kerman was featured in his own Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents half-hour special, Lightskinned Feelings (later titled "White People Can Keep Secrets").

[13] In 2023, he was cast in the Hulu mystery thriller series The Other Black Girl, a television adaptation of the 2021 novel by Zakiya Dalila Harris.

In a review in The New Yorker, Vinson Cunningham wrote that "work like Kerman’s is the way back to comedy on its own terms, as an art to be enjoyed in its purest form.