Ben Schwartz

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Mental Health

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Neal Brennan interviews Ben Schwartz (Ben Schwartz & Friends, Parks & Rec, Middleditch & Schwartz and more) about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how he is persevering despite these blocks. ---------------------------------------------------------- 00:00 Intro 00:48 Improv Tours 4:15 Social Media Addiction 9:28 Self-worth tied to job 24:33 People Pleaser 36:31 Relationships vs. Work 45:47 Staying Connected ---------------------------------------------------------- Follow Neal Brennan: https://www.instagram.com/nealbrennan https://twitter.com/nealbrennan https://www.tiktok.com/@mrnealbrennan Watch Neal Brennan: Crazy Good on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81728557 Watch Neal Brennan: Blocks on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81036234 Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased). Edited by Will Hagle ([email protected]) Sponsor: Visit https://betterhelp.com/NEAL for 10% off your first month. Sponsor Blocks: https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/blocks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Guys, hi, Neil Brennan blocks.
0:02.8	That was the whole intro?
0:05.1	Go.
0:06.0	Guest today, he's a comedian, actor, improviser, right?
0:11.0	He's got a long-form improv tour and show.
0:16.5	It's called Ben Schwartz and Friends.
0:18.4	And you do huge venues, which I'm like, which tells me the show must be good.
0:24.8	That's good.
0:25.2	No one's ever done improv, like, that I'm aware of on a big tour.
0:30.2	I think that the venues that we're playing are, we're oftentimes the first time improv has
0:35.6	ever played these venues, yeah.
0:37.1	So they've been touring improvisers and touring like UCB tour,
0:40.1	but it would be smaller places or colleges.
0:41.6	How did you, it can only be worded them out, right?
0:45.0	Well, I guess you did the, you in Middle Ditch did the Netflix.
0:48.3	Thomas and I, Thomas and I did Largo as Middle Ditch in Schwartz.
0:51.6	And then we did at UCB, we did it at Largo as Middleich and Schwartz and then we did at UCB. We did it at Largo and then Thomas really
0:54.7	wanted to tour and I was like, I don't want to tour. And then he convinced me to tour and then we went
0:59.8	out and we sold out, we'll see who cares. And we sold out these small smaller venues and then a little
1:05.9	bit bigger, right? And then we did the specials. And then I started touring Ben Schwartz and friends and was like, let's see how big we can go. And then started to stretch it a little bit. And we started to like,
1:14.7	almost sell out. Then we did sell out. And so I just kept going. But I wonder how big, I feel like for
1:20.3	what you do, you can point to Kevin Hart or Chappelle or anybody and be like, well, they do arenas. Yeah. For what we're doing, middle of Schwartz, and we're doing with Ben Schwartz and friends, there's
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