“When I met Obama, I wasn’t nervous because I met Eddie Murphy” what an incredible sentence to say outloud

Nothing wrong with name dropping when you can tell good and true stories.

Brennan is amazing. His 3 mics special or whatever is great. It's so nice to see his set/special with his own voice.

Hold up, everyone who’s calling out Neal for name dropping: Tom brought up Eddie Murphy, and of course they’re gonna talk about Chappelle, the guys were writing partners for years! Then he brought up that one uncomfortable time he met Cosby. That’s not a name drop. Get off it.

"I was almost hit by a car during the L.A. riots. I was in New York at the time."

I didn't know Neal Brennan did All That. That's great.

“Someone in your bloodline is going to be world famous.” 😂 🤣 Spoken like a true psychic.

My favorite Chapelle show thing I heard was that Samuel L Jackson was sitting next to Prince at an NBA game & he asked him if the Charlie Murphy bit about him was true, and Prince said to him "They had on church shoes"

The dude has had an amazing life and has met tons of ppl. Let him drop a few names lol

Neil is SUPER OLD SCHOOL....This dude just mentioned, "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" ...That's an all-time fave of mine!!

Eddie broke racials barriers in South Africa with his movies , during the height of the apartheid regime, He changed a lot of young white ppl minds !

People should recognize Neal as one of the all time greats of comedy. An iconic sketch writer and an excellent stand up

"Throw me the fuckin... heart or whatever" lol Neil Brennan is probably one of the most underappreciated comics there is

I feel like I may be one of the only humans that actually got to see half baked in the theater when it came out. My buddy and I convinced my Dad to take us to see it. Titanic seemed awful. We had no idea what Good Will Hunting was. So we went to see Half Baked lol.

It's funny how regular people can't understand how famous people might actually know famous people enough to be able to casually use their name in a sentence when talking about work.

He’s exactly right when he says people can’t handle the way comedians talk.

"I almost got ran over in the LA riots I was in new York at the time" 😂😂😂

Neal and Patrice were working on a show together befor his passing.

I looked up Dave Edwards - he's the "Boo this man!" guy from Half Baked.

"The first time I went to his house..." What a flex!

I love how Tom summons Sickler's laughter right before he mentions him.

This was the coolest interview. Neal Brennan your stories are the bomb. I never knew that about Eddie Murphy. The whole destiny thing blew my mind! If I was your kid I’d be constantly bragging and telling all the other kids about how cool my Dad is. When you go back and watch Delirious Murphy's so funny it’s insane by anyone’s standards. He’s a total legend.

Neal is a fucking legend- the unsung hero of my favorite Comedy Central program ever in Chappelle Show

Neal Brennan is a real comedic genius

Neal has been a part of some great things and he's got hella great stories.

Forever an Eddie Murphy Stan!! I loved his brother Charlie as well!!

I love that studio. Real relaxing looking, like a home library or office.

That Cosby joke at the end was funny as hell.

Goldeneye did not come out at the same time as Titanic. He's thinking of Tomorrow Never Dies.

Stop interrupting him. I want to hear at least one complete story.

lol, I couldn't stop laughing at Neal Brennan's characterization of people who pretend they haven't met you. A dude I was in the same tiny classroom with for at least four years, where we all knew each others' names, tried to pull that on me just two years after he moved to a different school.

Damn, who knew this podcast would sound like it was made a month ago.

@8:38 Probably the funniest thing said in the whole thing and he just throws it away like a candy wrapper. "I was in New York." LMFAO

Neal Brennan is the Paul Mooney to Dave Chappelle's Richard Pryor.

Brennan is the Goat that a lot of people don’t know about. Such a huge fan of his work.

Neal is a genius! Brooklyn!!!👏🏽

A million pts for Tommy’s cosby impression! 😂

It would be great if they let him finish a thought

0:57 i can hear Chapelle definitely saying that when telling the story lmao "what the fuck you doing on this bus cracka" I can see it as a sketch already

The delirious cassette tape is what got me into liking comedy as young teenager I cried laughing throughout like I never have since

Good interview, but yeah, I’ve gotta agree with some previous comments. Stop interrupting the guest when they’re telling a story. Especially iconic stories!

Neal Brennan: So I... Them: Laaaaa, la laaaa, La Laaaa Laaaa!

Eddie Murphy did the best Cosby impression, in my opinion.

I fuckin' love Eddie Murphy! Shoutout to the Richard Pryor nod. Neal is the best!

Half Baked came out in 1998, Titanic in 1997 and GoldenEye in 1995. They couldn't have been competing against his movie. 😂

As a man who dated nurses & am friends with a pharmacist, they are very morbid & honest about death. It’s one of the funniest experiences listening to them talk about how dumb we are as patients.

Okay now I realise Neal is comedy royalty.

Tom and Christina seem like they would be amazing parents

it's such a funny sketch I'm going to rewatch it after this.

At the end when Neil said something about people not being able to handle how comedians talk resonates so much with me & the way my friends & I talk.

they don't let him finish his thoughts.. it's so infuriating! let him finish!

I swear every fucking interview I’ve seen of Neal Brennan is just him talking about famous people he knows

So, Eddie Murphy is the original Golden Child.

So glad the newer podcasts have timestamps love Neal thanks!

Dave Chappelle is the GOAT

I love how he mentioned Keenan. Keenan doesn't get enough credit

Tom, stop asking him questions for a sec so he can tell a story.

I feel like comedy is just starting to really be appreciated for the art and brilliance it is. Yes i know comedy has always been around but it just feels more recognized

3 comedies that bombed at the box office: The Big Lebowski Idiocracy Half Baked

So Neal and Dave were 19 during the LA riots. It’s crazy how that were working and hustling is young.

nice mention of Dirty Dave Edwards. "You in here for some marijuana?!? BOO THIS MAN!"

Everyone breaking down & doing a Cosby voice at the end was hilarious

Ive seen a lot of Pryor stand up and he never made me laugh like Chappelle does.

Eddie was killing it for like a decade. made about ten classics, one after the other.

5:45 "Opened against Titanic, Goldeneye, Good Will Hunting, and maybe Big Lebowski" He makes it sound like 'Half Baked' was released the same weekend all those other movies were released. 'Half Baked' was released MLK weekend 1998. 'Titanic' was #1, but it was in it's 5th week. 'Good Will Hunting' was #2, but it was in it's 7th week. #3 was 'Fallen' - (Denzel Washington movie) which was in it's opening weekend. #4 was 'As Good As It Gets' which was in it's 4th week. #5 was 'Hard Rain' (shitty Christian Slater movie) which was it's first weekend. #6 was 'Half Baked'. 'Goldeneye' wasn't in theaters...it was released in '95. I guess he's thinking 'Tomorrow Never Dies' which was in it's 5th week at the time (#8 that weekend). 'The Big Lebowski' wasn't in theaters either. It came out 2 months later. So yeah, 'Half Baked' is a funny-ass movie, but it wasn't built for box office success. It was released over MLK weekend which isn't a big money release slot (see the other movies above that also opened that weekend...'Fallen' and 'Hard Rain' weren't big money makers). Movies released during that weekend (and other historically slow weekends) are typically not expected to do much. A lot of that comes from who made the movie. With 'Half Baked' you've got a stoner movie written by Neal Brennan (at the time he'd only written for some garbage TV shows) and Dave Chappelle (who had written for Def Jam and not a lot else). It's starring Chappelle, who was best known for 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' and 'The Nutty Professor'...which were both memorable roles, but not anything close to leading roles. The biggest co-star was probably Jim Breuer who really hadn't been in anything yet. It's director (which is probably the most important part in getting a studio behind a movie) was Tamra Davis who had directed 'Billy Madison' which I certainly liked, but I doubt many executives were running around talking about how shampoo is better or how it's too damn hot for a penguin to just be walking around. The best case for 'Half Baked' was to keep the budget low (which they did) and hope that enough people hear about it being funny that you can turn a small profit. It did OK, but it didn't make a lot of cash. All it really could have been for anyone associated was a stepping stone.

over the years kevin has slowly but surely became my fav brennan. shoutouts burning bridges.

Tom's reaction - "John Di-who? I don't know what this "Futurama" thing is."

That girl on the Açai Flow ad... I WATCHED THE ENTIRE AD!!! Girl’s got fine form

Chappelle Show is without a doubt the GREATEST sketch comedy show ever made. I honestly can’t even think of a close (or even a distant) second. Kroll Show is SUPER underrated and Key and Peele is great (but wouldn’t even exist if it wasn’t for Dave Chappelle.) but IMO you could take all of their best sketches combine them with all of the greatest SNL and Mad TV sketches and compile them into one Mega all star season and it still wouldn’t stand up to either season of Chappelle Show. Lol not even joking.

I'm 42 and you cannot under estimate how HUGE Eddie Murphy was in the 80's. He's 100% an 80's Icon. He was the coolest. Him and Michael J Fox were biggest stars of the 80's imo

loving the burger king studio guys

I'm sooo excited for coming to America! They better not mess this up.

Christina P looks so good

I could have listened to that all day

When you are not watching this but listening the interviewer sounds like Joe Rogan speaking.

He is 1 of my 2 celebrity crushes lol

When I was about 16 me and my buddies were smoking pot watching Chappelle's show. One of my friends name was Michael who just so happen to be Puerto Rican, anyways he always would get high and try and get someone to get him something out of the fridge ALWAYS. So we're sitting there and out of no where a P.S.A goes across the screen and it says "Puerto Ricans Sure are Lazy Michael" and then cuts back to the show. We flipped the hell out I looked at everybody and made sure they saw what I saw lol Btw this was on a DVD I had just bought. Please guys, if anyone knows what episode this is let me know lol All of my buddies still remember it to this day. So I know I wasn't just seeing shit like Tom saw dice clay when he kept riding past the hospital and had to stop. 😂😂😂

As an example of how famous Eddie Murphy was, in high school, at a keg party we stopped the music and watched Delirious.

Best Quote: Surgeons are like throw me the f*ckin’...whatever they call hearts.

Eddie perfected the Cosby impression way before we saw him do it on Raw.

Eddie smokes weed!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣 YESSSSSS

had half baked on dvd as a kid and loved that movie

Anyone else think harlem nights is funny as hell

Also opened against "as good as it gets" with Jack N. that was the fourth movie

I like how little Christina P contributes.

I’m glad I know all this lady’s favorite sketches and comedies now.

This explains alot for me about Eddie Murphy now. He's stoned all the time 😂😂😂

being a great story teller seems to go hand in hand with being a good comic

Everyone talks at the SAME time! The podcast! 😃

Neal is definitely the one who said “pea on me”. Just watched it.

Nailed it! It was the best sketch ever. Such hypocrisy and so innovative. #Genius

Idiocracy is one of the best movies of all time for real. When ever I meet someone and they say they haven’t seen it or heard of it, it makes it really hard to be their friend.

when the guest easily outshines the interviewer

neals speech at daves twain award was sooooooooooooo fucking good

OMG I LOVED this!

Cosby was rich enough to be incredibly openly racist to a Jew in an entertainment setting and hold court unchallenged on the subject. That is crazy powerful.

some people drink/do drugs and can't remember if they met you or not... the struggle is real.

His life’s amazing

And Titanic opened in the number two spot.

Robin Hood Men In Tights was the first time I saw Dave