Quotes by Neal Brennan - Page 2

The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Machines
Victory
Writing
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The hardest part of comedy is writing the jokes, and the second-hardest part is telling the jokes. To me, everything else is significantly easier.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Everything Else
Hardest Part
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Why marry myself to an entire album? I don't have to. If I download four songs from somebody on an iTunes sojourn, that's about as good as it gets.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Itunes
Download
Marry
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My entryway into hip-hop was - my biggest introduction was obviously like, you know, the Def Jam, Run D.M.C., Beastie Boys, like, that conglomerate.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Introduction
Conglomerate
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I do have weird habits when I'm directing, or even think as a director, like when I move a cup, I make sure to put it back in the exact right place.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Directing
Exact
Habits
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I can always tell the demographic that will probably recognize me - white dudes, sort of skater-y hip hop white dudes, and working class black dudes.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Always Me Black
Demographic
Dudes
Black Me White
Hip
Hop
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Honestly, I've always thought that Charles Barkley is the best guy on TV because he will really tell you what he thinks. But it's all well thought out.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Best Always Will
Charles
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In true, narcissistic fashion, when my father was diagnosed as a narcissist, he called us all up individually to tell us, and he did it with true pride.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Fashion
Narcissist
Narcissistic
Pride
Diagnosed
Individually
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I find that I like what I like. I like a strong melody, I like an inventive structure and I have to like the singer's voice or I have no interest in it.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Melody
Inventive
No Interest
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If I go to the store, I'm not trying to slip in the middle of the aisle so I can talk about it onstage. I'm at the store because I need food or medicine.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Aisle
Medicine
Onstage
Slip
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I love the fact that I can make a podcast in my house and tens of thousands of people will hear it. I also like that it's gotten rid of a lot of gatekeepers.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Gatekeepers
Love People Will
Rid
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands Of People
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It wasn't so much figuring out my voice comedically, because that was always pretty clear. It was more about performing and being a good, watchable performer.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Figuring
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Someone like Bethany Frankel goes from being, like, 'some lady' to a star with arguably as much charisma as anybody else on TV. I personally find that riveting.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Charisma
Anybody Else
Arguably
Lady
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I think the thing I had going for me is a good pedigree and joke-writing ability. But a good pedigree, for the audience, doesn't matter past the first 90 seconds.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Pedigree
Seconds
Good Me Past
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I think that [Eddie Murphy's famous "White Like Me"] is probably the first time I thought, "Oh. Being black is different. That is a totally different experience."
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Different Experiences
Thinking
White
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I generally don't read articles about myself/'Chappelle's Show,' nor do I read reviews. It's basically playing Russian Roulette. They're not all gonna be positive.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Articles
Roulette
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Being able to write jokes is great, but you still have to get used to performing them and being on stage - and enjoying being on stage, not just like tolerating it.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Enjoying
Tolerating
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3 Mics' has gotten me fans who actually like me. Now they have a sense of what I'm like, so I get to talk in a way that I really want, and it's fun to go on the road.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Me Fun Fans
Gotten
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I'm making fun of midwestern homophobia [in the joke], but I'm still saying faggot. And almost every month as I'm doing that joke it gets five percent less of a laugh.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Fun
Laughing
Months
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I get that money is important, and it's scary to think that you won't have enough. At the same time, we can set up reasonable social safety nets and take care of everybody.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Reasonable
Safety
Scary
Take Care
Set
Time Money Care
Nets
Safety Nets
Same Time
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It wasn't surprising to me because I've had the conversation with him personally, but Will Smith is more interesting a guy that you could ever capture in a movie or TV show.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Capture
Surprising
Me Will More
Smith
Tv Show
Will Smith
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[Robert Smigel] is one of the greatest comedy writers in the last 50 years. "TV Funhouse" and Triumph and all those sketches.He's really unique, and he has an amazing comedy mind.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Mind
Unique
Years
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There were some things I wanted to talk about. I wanted to talk about depression in public, I wanted to talk about being in the shadow of people I've dated and people I worked with publicly.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Shadow
Dated
Publicly
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Brent Weinbach made [Gangster Party Line].I guess I saw it when it first came out. And that is so goddamn funny to me. The guys are real dudes and they're not good, but they're also good enough.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Guy
Party
Real
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Sentimental is not bad, but it's probably the most likely to go awry. It's the hardest to do and not have it end up being 'Forrest Gump' or something. Maudlin - I just don't want it to be maudlin.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Sentimental
Awry
Likely
Maudlin
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With comics it's very close, like, "I don't want to say anything onstage that I wouldn't say offstage." Or vice versa. I say "faggot" in my special and in the joke I am the faggot, if that makes sense.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Say Anything
Special
Vices
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Team America must have been the biggest pain in the ass. And if we want to talk well-organized, they got Bill Pope, who is the DP on The Matrix, because he was just like, "I want to do something less serious."
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America
Pain
Team
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There are things that start small on Reddit, then they sort of gather and become major trends. Having said that, I mostly stay on the Top 100 page, so it's mostly just pictures of a dog looking like Chewbacca.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Reddit
Gather
Major
Mostly
Page
Pictures
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Steve Allen was on Johnny Carson one time - I looked for it, but I couldn't find it - and he read the lyrics to 'Hot Stuff' by Donna Summer like a poet. He read them very seriously. I was maybe 8, but it killed me.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Hot
One Time
Poet
Stuff
Summer
Very
Time Me Hot
Allen
He
Them
Find
Read
Johnny
Looked
Lyrics
Maybe
Seriously
Steve
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I think the biggest influence on my stand-up would be Chris Rock, in that I love that Chris is basically an essayist, in that he'll take a subject and just try and attack it from as many different angles as he can.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Different Angles
Angles
Biggest Influence
Chris
Chris Rock
Essayist
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I would like to do theaters. That's always been a dream. I think that would be a good way to tour. But for the most part, in terms of, do I want to get recognized on the street? No. There's not much I want about fame.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Good Way
Recognized
Theaters
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If the word police want to come and get me, they can come and get me. If someone wants to blog about me, fine. The bloggers can come and get me. I clearly say the n-word in public, eight times. I think that's the count.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Eight
Police
Thinking
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I get music from odd places that I assume are fairly typical at this point. I'll just go on iTunes, go to EDM and just look at the Top 100, or I'll go on the Beats app and look on the playlists that are sort of curated.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Beats
Itunes
Odd
Typical
Fairly
App
Assume
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I just don't believe in the old definition that a fan of music is: I find a band, I listen to all of it and I pretend to like stuff that I don't like. Now if I don't like it, I just go, 'I don't like this.' It's way fairer.
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Definition
Pretend
Fairer
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There are words that I wouldn't say because they hurt people's feelings. I just happen to be a white guy who writes for a lot of black comedians but if I wrote for a lot of gay comedians there might be stuff I would say then.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Gay
Hurt
Writing
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I think the future belongs to the comedic polymath. It belongs to the person who can generate the most good material in the biggest variety of ways, whether it's sketches or stand-up or songs or tweets or television or films.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Variety
Belongs
Generate
Good Material
Sketches
Tweets
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America doesn't have poor people, they have temporarily embarrassed millionaires: meaning there are people who are poor for now but that's all about to end when 'blank' happens, or when the number comes in, or when the invention takes off.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Blank
Embarrassed
Invention
Poor People
Millionaires
Temporarily
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Here's the thing about standup directing: not that hard. As I said on Twitter one day, or maybe it was Instagram - sorry, I want to keep my platforms straight - it's essentially the same five shots over and over again. Seven if you're ambitious.
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Platforms
Sorry
Directing
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I love doing stand up. I think it's a really worthwhile art form. It's so unique in all the things it combines, in terms of it being philosophizing, preaching, speaking truth to power and basic communicating. It's a good way to talk back to the world.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Good Way
Preaching
Worthwhile
Love Truth Art
Art Form
Stand Up
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Everyone has some secret and some source of pain or sadness and I just said mine first and then everybody went after me. I get it every day in my Instagram direct messages, people thanking me for talking about depression and telling me how it helped them.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Depression
Messages
Sadness
Thanking
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You know, when I was a kid, I used to cry every day, like, when I was like, you know, 7 through 11 or 6 through 11, to the point where my brother and sisters would like - there was an ongoing joke where they would make me cry to keep my streak alive of crying every day.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Ongoing
Sisters
Me Day Keep
Streak
Crying
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Movies are grander, with (in my experience) more heavy weight chefs in the kitchen: the studio, the producers, the writers. All of them get to weigh in and you have to listen to all of them because they hired you. With TV, it's a way smaller scale, with only a few people weighing in.
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Kitchen
People
Weight
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There was a thing in the Andy Kaufman movie that Jim Carrey [Man On The Moon] about how he would do it. I didn't even see the movie. I read the script. But someone asked me, "Do you know what the best part of the Jim Carrey/Andy Kaufman movie is?" And I said, "me lee see ree bee." I just knew that would be the best part.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Men
Moon
Would Be
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Slavery is the most insane thing... I don't know that we've ever seen in history, but it's got to be close. The idea of slavery is such a base impulse. It's like, "I'm going to kidnap you and then you're going to do everything I want." Like, what? And then there's the historical aspect. It had a huge effect on human history.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Historical
Ideas
Insane
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The Berlin Wall comes down in '89, so then there's basically a vacuum of who was the enemy and then Fox News comes along in '95 and it becomes Democrat versus Republican. Now people on the right are fed a steady diet of anti Democratic party propaganda so they believe Democrats are the enemy and they will not believe anything.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Berlin
Berlin Wall
Democratic Party
Fox News
Propaganda
Steady
Versus
Anti
Fed
Fox
Vacuum
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You know, I liken it to - when you write a joke for somebody else, it's like you - you know, like the Wile E. Coyote dynamite plunger, where he pushes the plunger down and then you see the fuse go then there's an explosion in the distance? That's like writing a joke for somebody. When you tell the joke, you're in the explosion.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Distance
Dynamite
Fuse
Coyote
Explosion
Pushes
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Like, your body has to get used to being in front of people. Like - and you have to be like - you have to be kind of a ham, you know? Like, the thing about writers is they're generally self - comedy writers - self-loathing, sort of play small. And as a, like, performer, you have to think like a comedy writer but act like a performer.
Neal Brennan / Comedian
Be Kind
Ham
Self Loathing
Your Body People
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