Jerry Seinfeld

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Neal Brennan interviews Jerry Seinfeld ('Unfrosted' on Netflix, 'Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,' 'Bee Movie,' 'Seinfeld') about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how he is persevering despite these blocks. ---------------------------------------------------------- Watch 'Unfrosted' on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81481606 Shoutout to Andrew Schulz for use of the studio 😘 -------------------------- 00:00 Intro 00:37 Unfrosted 4:08 Growing up in the 50s and 60s 10:55 Starting comedy 19:39 Sponsor: BetterHelp 21:09 Sponsor: BlueChew 23:02 Standup & the 100M Dash 25:29 Finding Out Who You’re Not 27:04 Components of Standup 31:04 Meditation / Spirituality 35:47 Success in the early 90s 38:47 Relationship with Larry David 48:29 Popularity of ‘Seinfeld’ 53:50 Sponsor: Manscaped 55:27 Sponsor: The Perfect Jean 57:36 Working on ‘Seinfeld’ 59:30 Marriage & Kids 1:05:28 Surprises of being a Parent 1:09:33 Life after ‘Seinfeld’ 1:11:18 Editing Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee 1:14:28 Generosity and Curiosity 1:17:50 Looking back on Career 1:22:08 Spiritual Lessons / Appreciating Himself ---------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- Sponsors: https://www.BetterHelp.com/NEAL for 10% off your first month https://www.BlueChew.com promo code: NEAL to try BlueChew FREE https://www.Manscaped.com promo code: NEAL for 20% off plus free shipping https://www.theperfectjean.nyc/NEAL15 for 15% off plus free shipping Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. It's me Neil Brennan. This is the blocks podcast. I'd like to thank
0:04.3	Andrew Schultz for letting us use his studio. My guest today is a good buddy of mine, a
0:10.0	guy I have admired for 40 years and give or take who is on Seinfeld and he did comedians
0:18.8	and cars getting coffee and he's got a new Netflix film called Unfrosted that I saw last night and it's very funny and his name is Jerry
0:30.6	Seinfeld.
0:31.6	Hello. Yes. Hey kids. Great to see you. Good to see you. Thank you for coming. Tell me about the movie, please. I saw it last night. Everyone in it is funny. Did it feel like I got mouths to feed?
0:45.0	Like I got people coming.
0:46.7	Get some jokes ready for Bill Burr.
0:48.7	What are you guys, five years old?
0:50.6	Little John John draws better than that. And I think there's something wrong with them.
0:54.0	Or get some jokes ready for Schumer feel like servicing.
0:58.0	A lot of times when you have really funny people like I was fortunate enough to have, they will think of stuff as you're playing and you
1:07.5	use a lot.
1:08.5	I use tons of it.
1:09.5	I mean, why wouldn't you?
1:11.0	You know, Kyle Dunnegan doing Walter Cronkite's drinking problem yes and domestic difficulties? We did not have that in the script. Yeah, that was him. Yes. Bill Burr, I assume Jackie's still out buying hats.
1:25.0	Yep.
1:26.0	You know, that was not in the script.
1:28.0	I mean, Cedric, I could tell you guys had fun editing Cedric,
1:32.0	yeah. Screaming. Hell you guys had fun editing Cedric.
1:32.8	Yeah.
1:33.5	Screaming Kellogg's.
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