273 - Neal Brennan (Co-creator of The Chappelle Show)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2017
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Neal is a writer, actor, director, and standup comic. He's been involved in everything from Half Baked to The Chappelle Show to Saturday Night Live to the White House Correspondent's Dinner to The Daily Show. His most recent special, called 3 Mics (Netflix) is a work of true genius.
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| 0:00.0 | Radio Manu, Papa Tzango. |
| 0:30.7 | Greetings, everybody. This is Dr. Christopher Ryan coming to you from Barcelona. |
| 0:37.7 | This is a very big episode. The guest this week is Neil Brennan, who is probably best known for |
| 0:47.3 | his role in co-writing the Dave Chappelle show. He may have co-created it as well. I'm not sure I should |
| 0:55.0 | look up those credits, but he definitely co-wrote it and wrote a lot of stuff with Dave Chappelle over |
| 1:02.4 | the years. Those of you who have been living on Saturn for the last 10 years may not know that Dave |
| 1:09.5 | Chappelle is one of the most successful admired comedians of the last decade or two and had the most |
| 1:18.4 | successful show on TV ever, I believe. You know, judged by how do they judge it by DVD sales or |
| 1:27.9 | something. I don't know. Anyway, phenomenally clever, intelligent, and as you'll hear, profound guy, |
| 1:36.8 | Neil Brennan. He's recently done a special one, Netflix called Three Mikes, which I spoke about |
| 1:46.0 | on this podcast before I had any clue that Neil would possibly agree to be on my podcast, |
| 1:54.0 | but it's just so good. You really have to see it. Anyway, Neil Brennan is the guest. He's amazing. |
| 2:01.7 | And before I get on to other things and forget about it, I want to thank Malcolm Fliceman for |
| 2:10.3 | again, hooking me up with an amazing guest. Malcolm's a producer on The Young Turks, and he and I |
| 2:17.2 | became buddies a few years ago when I did a few segments on there. And ever since then, when |
| 2:26.0 | he thinks of somebody particularly intelligent and deep thinking for some reason, he hooks them |
| 2:34.1 | up with me and often they agree to be on the podcast. So I'm in deep gratitude to Malcolm as always. |
| 2:43.3 | What else? The other big news to be announced on this episode is that tangentially reading is |
| 2:50.9 | ready to be pre-ordered ladies and gentlemen. That's right. The podcast coming to you in book form, |
| 3:00.9 | they'll be ready to ship out in early December, I believe. So there'll be a great Christmas gift. |
| 3:08.0 | If there's anyone in your life who doesn't get why podcasts are interesting, or at least why this one |
| 3:14.9 | may be interesting to you, the book is a great way to introduce them to the concept. It's excerpts from |
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