Kenan Thompson

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Neal Brennan interviews Kenan Thompson (SNL, You Already Know podcast, All That + more) about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how he is persevering despite these blocks. ---------------------------------------------------------- Kenan's blocks: 00:00 Intro 17:13 Afraid of Bees 19:28 Diet 26:41 Co-parenting 29:58 Exercise 31:36 Driving Hard 38:08 Bites fingernails but clips toenails 41:04 Tosses & Turns in his sleep ---------------------------------------------------------- https://nealbrennan.com for tickets to Neal's tour Brand New Neal Watch Neal Brennan: Blocks on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81036234 You Already Know podcast hosted by Kenan Thompson & Tani Marole: https://www.youalreadyknowpodcast.com/ Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased). Edited by Will Hagle ---------------------------------------------------------- SPONSORS: Seed.com/NEAL use code NEAL for 25% off your first month Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Neil Brennan, and I have a Netflix special called Blocks, where I talk about things
0:09.6	that make me feel alone in the world, and then Jimmy Carr had the idea why I want
0:12.1	you to do a podcast
0:12.7	why other people come on and they do their blocks and you talk about it. We
0:15.6	reveal things about ourselves and everybody feels better and the world heals.
0:21.6	My guest today, I have known for literally almost 30 years.
0:28.0	Yeah.
0:29.0	Which seems impossible because...
0:30.0	I mean, it's 30 years.
0:32.0	It'll be 30 years and two years were you at
0:35.3	when you just I wasn't at the pilot all right because that's when I was 14 but
0:38.9	this is you started nine years we did the pilot when I was 14 and by the time we started, I think I was 15.
0:45.0	Look, here's the story. I was a writer in the 90s and 2000s.
0:51.0	In my first job in show business was...
0:53.4	So do you not consider this of a writer anymore?
0:55.6	I mean, I don't...
0:56.6	You just kneel.
0:57.6	You kneel out there, whatever.
0:59.6	Look, I'll write.
1:00.3	I'm not writing for other people.
1:01.6	Right, fuck that shit.
1:03.0	You have to get that shit yourself.
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