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 Read Quote
Like, I feel like I’m funny, despite the fact that I keep getting rejected by people less funny than me. Neal Brennan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If you just want money and tax cuts and stuff, fine – just stop acting like you’re moral. Neal Brennan Read Quote
With most specials, even the best comedians will tell you they could have cut 15 or 20 minutes out of it. Neal Brennan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
