the world is telling us all one thing right and it's it's not true it's just the world is lying

and or manipulating us and comedy gives us a chance to be like may I may I give my rebuttal

hello and welcome to the psychology podcast today we welcome Neil Brennan on the show

Neil is a director writer actor and comedian most known for co-creating and co-writing the comedy

central series Chapelle show with Dave Chapelle and cult movie classic half bait Neil received three

Emmy nominations for Chapelle show one for directing and the other two for writing and producing

he has also performed stand-up on last call with Carson Daly late night with Jimmy Fallon

Lopez tonight and Conan recently his comedy special called blocks was released on Netflix

in this episode I talked to Neil Brennan about his comedy and upbringing as early as eight years

old Neil has been interested in comedy for its fairness he reveals who his early influences were

and what it was like working with Dave Chapelle in this episode I also gave Neil some impromptu

psychological tests to help us both understand more about his unique mind we also touch on the

topics of relationships mindfulness cognitive distortions and neuro diversity this was a really

fun episode it was great chatting with Neil I really like his comedy but I also really like his

humanity and his vulnerability when I watched his Netflix special I was especially touched by his

journey to overcome depression and I reached out to him because I really wanted to help him I hope

you enjoyed this episode so without further ado I bring you Neil Brennan mr. Neil how you doing

good buddy how about you I'm doing pretty good I'm doing pretty good as you know I saw your recent

Netflix a special blocks and was really deeply touched by it and you know I'm like laughing so hard

for like three fourths of it and then you know you get really real you know in the whole sort of

tone change there at the end right and it's like I went from like oh shit you know like what the

fuck I'm a therapist and this is upsetting yeah no but I mean talk about you know being able to

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