Neal Brennan Gives Ketamine and Magnetic Impulses a Try
The Hilarious World of Depression
American Public Media
4.8 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
If you've enjoyed any comedy in the last 20 years, there's a good chance Neal Brennan helped make it. He's a veteran comic, writer, director, and co-creator, with Dave Chappelle, of the acclaimed Chappelle's Show. Over the past 20-plus years, he's also tried everything he could think of to tame his depression. Hear Neal's epic journey to feeling pretty good.
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| 0:00.0 | Is depression funny? |
| 0:02.0 | Not inherently. I think like the byproduct of it, |
| 0:06.0 | its reduction and nihilism, which I think is funny. |
| 0:09.0 | But I don't think like a lack of serotonin is inherently funny. |
| 0:13.0 | Music |
| 0:41.0 | It's the hilarious world of depression. I'm John Mo. |
| 0:45.0 | This program is all about explaining and exploring life with clinical depression through the lens of comedy. |
| 0:51.0 | We're not trying to minimize it. We're not refusing to take it seriously. |
| 0:55.0 | It is serious. People live in misery. People die. |
| 0:58.0 | But if you can laugh at it as well, you can take away some of its power. |
| 1:02.0 | Hello. My name is Neil Brennan. |
| 1:06.0 | I am a comedian and a writer and a director. And we're in Venice, California. |
| 1:12.0 | Neil Brennan has been behind a lot of the best comedy of the past 20 years. |
| 1:17.0 | And I mean behind it, not in front of the camera or the microphone, |
| 1:20.0 | but as a writer, director, producer. |
| 1:23.0 | He co-created the series Chappelle Show. He's written for SNL, The Daily Show. |
| 1:28.0 | He directs movies, TV shows, commercials, even if you don't know the name Neil Brennan. |
| 1:34.0 | Every person in comedy does. |
| 1:36.0 | Neil offered my producer and me beverages. |
| 1:39.0 | I'm having some water. You guys want any water? |
| 1:41.0 | I'm good, thanks. All right. |
| 1:43.0 | And now this is me. I have a soda stream. This is me soda streaming. |
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