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On Brand with Donny Deutsch

On Brand Re-Brand: Denis Leary

On Brand with Donny Deutsch

Donny Deutsch Podcast Admin

Entertainment News, News, Arts, News Commentary

4.6896 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

We go back to May 27th of 2021. Donny sits down with legendary actor, comedian, writer, producer, and longtime friend, Denis Leary. The two dive right into defining Denis' edgy brand, how a strong concept outlives fame, and what he's learned from acting greats like DeNiro and Hoffman. They also discuss Denis' passion for firefighters, why America needs a female President, and how you're nobody unless your mom thinks you're somebody.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey guys, we're going back into the files to play some of our best of On Brand. I want you to listen to my old friend Dennis Leary. It's a fantastic interview. Enjoy it. We'll see you next time on On Brand. You guys are in for a treat. He is kind of a rookie to podcasts. He's done only one podcast. so we should feel pretty, pretty special. We have him here. He is the one and only Dennis Leary. We all know him from, of course, amazing Spider-Man, the Rift Day, one of the great underrated movies of all time. Of course, Rescue Me, one of the greatest shows of all time, sex drugs and rock a roll, Ice Age, Bugs Life. I mean, the guy's done one of the top standups of all time, sex drugs and rock a roll, ice age, bugs life. I mean, the guy's done it all, one of the top standups of all time. One of, by the way, I'm going to embarrass him a little bit because he seems like such an asshole, but he is actually one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. I welcome my friend Dennis, Dennis Larry. Dennis, how are you, man? Hey man, how are you? Good, good. Thank you for being here.

2:34.6

I want to, you know, this show is, and don't make fun of me because you're going to go, I'm not fucking talking about my own personal brand. The whole premise of the show is that everything is a brand. Every institution, every product, every, every athlete, every movement, every religion, anybody with a Facebook page. So the first question I asked, all my guests, is if I was going to ask you the Dennis Leary brand, how would you describe it? Well, it's interesting that you asked that because, you know, the brand, and you know, you know, you know this, Donnie better than anybody. You know, when I first, when I first got famous was when I first became aware of it. I just, you know, I wasn't a marketing guy.

2:36.8

I was an actor and a writer and a stand-up comedian, right?

2:40.0

And then as soon as you get famous, and I formed a production company through some good advice from more experienced famous people that I was meeting.

2:50.0

Then I started to hear about brand.

2:51.6

And I was like, oh, brand, right, of course.

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