Sarah Silverman

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Silverman ('Someone You Love' on Max, The Sarah Silverman Program + much more) joins The Blocks Podcast to talk about the things that make her feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how she is persevering despite these blocks. ---------------------------------------------------------- 00:00 Intro 3:35 Teenage Bedwetter 5:15 Set At Night Ruins Day 25:08 Taking On Other People’s Anger 32:44 Fear of Not For Work Travel 37:05 Partner Travel 1:00:00 Work Identity 1:04:41 Fear of Failure 1:16:26 Goals For Herself ---------------------------------------------------------- https://nealbrennan.com Watch Neal Brennan: Blocks on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81036234 Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased). Edited by Will Hagle ---------------------------------------------------------- Sponsors: GameTime App Code: BLOCKS for $20 off your first purchase BetterHelp.com/NEAL for 10% off your first month MintMobile.com/NEAL for $15/month plus free shipping Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Neil Brennan here. This is the Black's podcast. This is the longest I've known a guest. I don't think I could have a guest on that I've known longer that isn't from my family.
0:14.0	Pause.
0:16.0	Pause for no applause.
0:18.0	And I've known you since you were 18 and I was 15? No, no, no, you were 17 and I was 19. Okay. And I was 19. Okay. What year was that?
0:29.9	I remember meeting you at downstairs in the little area between the Boston
0:35.0	comedy club and Sun Mountain. Yep, Sun Mountain was a bar. It was a it was a
0:39.3	horribly named comedy club and a horribly named Bar.
0:42.6	Right, because it was in New York,
0:43.8	but it was in New York, Boston Company Club,
0:45.4	Sun Mountain, no one knows what it means.
0:48.0	To this day, she's one of the best comedians I've ever seen, I don't, whatever, take it and it's true.
0:58.0	And I also, the thing I like about it is, when you first started, it was hard.
1:03.9	Yeah, of course.
1:04.9	But like no one, everyone just sees the finished product.
1:08.2	Right.
1:09.2	I literally saw you're probably one of your first 20 or 30 sets like and then you and this is a different
1:14.8	question it seemed like it wasn't working and then something happened and it
1:19.9	started working because like a lot of jokes in Jesus Magic,
1:23.3	your first special, were like, I'd seen not do well for a year.
1:27.1	Yeah, they were like all my best jokes
1:29.5	from 10 years of doing stand-up or not yeah yeah and sure yeah well I mean I have jokes now
1:37.5	that are not working that I know will work I just have to figure it out yeah I
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