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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It’s way more fun to tell jokes for an hour than it is to sit in a room and bash your head against the wall trying to think of sketches. Neal Brennan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The biggest problem in America is most people believe poor people are poor because they are lazy. Neal Brennan Read Quote
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 Read Quote