How To Be The Most Healed Guy with Neal Brennan
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Who is Neal Brennan and why is he significant in comedy?
There are few people I know who have spent more time in comedy than Neil Brennan, like few human beings. And when I say comedy, I mean every level of comedy. TV. Administration. Yeah, no really. Paperwork. No really. Scheduling. You are that guy. Club comedy. Neil Brennan has been in the trenches of the trenches. So I was going to ask you about this, but like, I feel like There is no comedian who does not have something wrong with them. No good comedian, actually.
I learned that from The Daily Show. I was like, all these people are insane. I was like, these are not normal people.
And it doesn't matter what it is. It might be your family. It might be the country you lived in. It might be just a neurodivergent thing that you have in your own head and you grew up in a fine world.
What's funny is I do a podcast called Blocks where I have people on and we talk about their issues. Yeah. And I know that they're not the real issues. Do you know what I mean? These are the issues that you're willing. These are the showcase issues. Oh, man. And I'm like, the real issue. But do you think they know? A couple days a year, they know. A couple days a year, they can actually be like, ugh.
But they don't want to look at it.
This is What Now? with Trevor Noah. If you don't know Neil Brennan, you probably don't know comedy, right? Neil Brennan is in many ways like the Forrest Gump of comedy. He has been everywhere. He knows everyone. No comedian who is worth their salt in anything... does not have a story about Neil Brennan. I don't care where they're from. I don't care what they're doing. I'm talking about comedians from other countries as well, not just in America. Like they know Neil Brennan, right? I know some of your story, but I don't want to miss it, especially for the audience. So Neil Brennan is born where?
um in philadelphia outside philadelphia okay i had like ireland in my head for some reason it feels like it it feels like it's such an irish name it really is i'm an irish citizen but i got my oh you are yeah i got my citizenship like recently oh look i don't know what to do with it but congratulations just you just do it just use it i'm gonna yeah eu i'm gonna move somewhere um Okay, so you're born in Philadelphia. Born in Philadelphia. The last of 10. The last of 10. How many boys, how many girls? Six, total six boys, four girls. And yeah, and then, I don't know, it was just... It's pretty chaotic. And it's a lot of kids in a house. It's a bit like an orphanage. But no one comes.
No one comes to take anybody. Okay, I'm curious. Like the age gap between one and ten and where your parents are.
Ten kids and 16 years.
16 years. But I'm curious about by the time your parents got to you, were they like, oh, fuck it. It was pretty New Testament.
It was just kind of like, ah. Yeah.
Yeah.
13. 13, 14.
I got underage drinking when I was 16. Cops. Oh, damn. Yeah. So you were a troublemaker, kind of. Yeah, but I'd stop. I remember the end of high school being like, I don't really need to drink anymore. Like I've never been that into it. It was just like, I was just doing it. I wouldn't much of, I was, I was similar in that. Like I was friends with a lot of friend groups and pretty funny.
And like, what was the, was the family funny? Cause I I've never known this part of your comedy. Like. Who was the funny in your family, or where did the funny come from?
My dad liked comedy. I think a lot of his jokes were kind of stolen from Frank Sinatra, where I'd be like, oh, I know that cadence. Where I'd listen to Frank, I'd watch a Frank Sinatra, and I'd be like, oh, that's where he got it. He was one of 13 comedians. And it's a lot of boys in that family. There's probably seven boys in this family. So it was like a lot of sort of sarcasm. And then this is a funny story. One year at Thanksgiving, I'm in high school. One of my brothers said, Kevin, you're not even the funniest one in the family. Neil is. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Wow. Like, kind of overly competitive for funniest, I guess. Specifically for funniest. Well, I guess in this case, yeah. Yeah. Or something.
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