Neal Brennan

I guess I like people doing roasts in public. That's my thing.

— Neal Brennan

People get way too much credit at funerals.

— Neal Brennan

I'm obsessive, I'm a control freak, I get snappy with people.

— Neal Brennan

People don't like doing podcasts.

— Neal Brennan

I just love well-organized, very serious nonsense.

— Neal Brennan

I think the best black screenwriter is Quentin Tarantino.

— Neal Brennan

I don't think there is 70 good hours of TV in a week.

— Neal Brennan

Whoever has the most at stake should have the most power.

— Neal Brennan

I think being honest on TV is pretty rare. So if I can be that, I would like to be.

— Neal Brennan

You're supposed to not like the 'Austin Powers' movies because people ruin the catchphrases. 'Austin Powers' is so funny.

— Neal Brennan

If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.

— Neal Brennan

I needed to be more self-determining, and the most self-determining thing you can do in comedy is stand-up.

— Neal Brennan

You can say whatever you want, but there's going to be consequences to it.

— Neal Brennan

If you just want money and tax cuts and stuff, fine - just stop acting like you're moral.

— Neal Brennan

I think the only op-ed columnist in 'The Times' - where I read all of his stuff - is Paul Krugman.

— Neal Brennan

People doing rhymes that are nonsense - nothing can make me laugh like that.

— Neal Brennan

Being able to write jokes is great, but you still have to get used to performing them and being on stage -…

— Neal Brennan

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…

— Neal Brennan

There were some things I wanted to talk about. I wanted to talk about depression in public, I wanted to talk about…

— Neal Brennan

My entryway into hip-hop was - my biggest introduction was obviously like, you know, the Def Jam, Run D.M.C., Beastie Boys, like,…

— Neal Brennan

I would like to do theaters. That's always been a dream. I think that would be a good way to tour. But…

— Neal Brennan

I think that [Eddie Murphy's famous "White Like Me"] is probably the first time I thought, "Oh. Being black is different. That…

— Neal Brennan

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…

— Neal Brennan

[Robert Smigel] is one of the greatest comedy writers in the last 50 years. "TV Funhouse" and Triumph and all those sketches.He's…

— Neal Brennan

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…

— Neal Brennan

Movies are grander, with (in my experience) more heavy weight chefs in the kitchen: the studio, the producers, the writers. All of…

— Neal Brennan

You know, when I was a kid, I used to cry every day, like, when I was like, you know, 7 through…

— Neal Brennan

There was a thing in the Andy Kaufman movie that Jim Carrey [Man On The Moon] about how he would do it.…

— Neal Brennan

Like, your body has to get used to being in front of people. Like - and you have to be like -…

— Neal Brennan

The Berlin Wall comes down in '89, so then there's basically a vacuum of who was the enemy and then Fox News…

— Neal Brennan

You know, I liken it to - when you write a joke for somebody else, it's like you - you know, like…

— Neal Brennan

I'm not the easiest dude to work with.

— Neal Brennan

I'm not good at Reddit; I don't go to the most popular parts.

— Neal Brennan

Whoever is saying the joke is my biggest priority.

— Neal Brennan

I think I've seen every 'Bill Maher' episode.

— Neal Brennan

I think anything is possible if the jokes are good.

— Neal Brennan

But my problem was that I did an hour for Comedy Central and nobody seemed to care.

— Neal Brennan

The biggest problem in America is most people believe poor people are poor because they are lazy.

— Neal Brennan

I just think [Gangster Party Line] is funny and stupid and all the dudes in it are real dudes. It's just a…

— Neal Brennan

'Jersey Shore' is one of the best shows of all time. They had so many hooks.

— Neal Brennan