Michael Kosta

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Neal Brennan interviews Michael Kosta (The Daily Show, Standup) about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how he is persevering despite these blocks. Subscribe to Michael Kosta: @MichaelKosta 00:00 Intro 00:37 Birdman Joke 4:28 Code Switching & Identity 5:58 Competitiveness 10:12 Long-term vs. Short Term Thinking 14:02 Arrogance in Comedy 16:30 Daily Show 19:02 Managing Competitiveness 22:25 Sponsor: BetterHelp 25:11 Sponsor: Rag & Bone 26:59 Pleasing Others 34:40 Effort 42:37 Sponsor: Aura Frames 45:09 Sponsor: Tushy 46:55 Alcohol 56:00 Work-Family-Nature-Money Balance ---------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	My guest today, I've known for 15, easy.
0:03.0	Yeah.
0:04.0	And he's a correspondent on The Daily Show.
0:06.0	Hi, I'm Michael Costa.
0:07.0	Daily Show correspondent, an intrepid journalist.
0:10.0	And he's a host once a week.
0:13.0	They're unclear on when they tell him kind of the day before.
0:16.0	It's probably, they should probably do a better system.
0:18.0	Welcome to the Daily Show.
0:20.9	He's a great comic.
0:22.4	He's got some of my favorite jokes about conservatives and liberals.
0:27.4	You can lean left, but you keep one leg in the center, all right?
0:30.6	You can go to the right, but keep one leg in the center.
0:33.3	Just do this.
0:34.0	Just do basketball defense drills.
0:37.2	And he's got a book called Lucky Luser,
0:40.3	and he's got a podcast called Tennis Anyone,
0:42.5	and his name is Michael Costa.
0:45.8	The jokes that I would like to talk about that I quote is,
0:50.3	Costa is talking about how out of touch L.A. is,
0:53.6	and then he yells out,
0:55.0	nobody in Michigan cared about Birdman.
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