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Joe Rogan Experience #2135 - Neal Brennan

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On InSketches.
I could save for the air, but we're on the air.
Oh, we are on the air.
Yeah, we're rolling.
I just turned my monitor around because I could see myself and I didn't want to
be.
But what InSketches, I'll just open up with a Chappelle story.
Because that's what everybody thinks I do anyway.
Dave would be watching himself on the monitor.
And I'd be like, I don't know, man, just be in it.
And then I'd tell the cameraman to turn around.
He'd be like, did Neil tell you to turn around?
So he couldn't watch himself.
It just felt like, if you're doing Rick James, maybe just be Rick James.
Maybe not see yourself as Rick James.
Maybe like affirmed as Rick James.
Well, yeah, Rick James would look at a monitor.
Yes.
Absolutely.
In that character, I would imagine.
Yes.
That's actually a good move.
By the way, rest in peace, OJ Simpson.
Oh, my God.
Rest in peace, OJ.
Juice.
We lost the juice today.
We love you, Juice.
Juice, we love you.
Sam Tripoli posted something on Twitter today.
It was OJ Simpson.
It just said, I did it.
He posted it on Instagram.
But I guarantee you that that's fake.
That looks like a fake tweet.
Yeah.
I watched, there's a video of a compilation of Norm doing OJ jokes.
And it's 11 minutes.
And I watched it.
I watched it and then went back and started.
It was, it's so glorious.
It was so relentless.
He was so good.
He was so fucking funny.
We're talking about OJ.
No, he was, Norm was so fucking funny.
And the glint in his eyes.
Yes.
And half the time he was bombing on SNL because it wasn't really his crowd.
Right.
And he didn't care.
No.
He did not care.
And he kind of got fired for it.
Well, he had a, he had a view.
You know, he had a, he had a frequency that he was on.
And comics loved it and the audience loved it.
But yeah, it wasn't, wasn't necessarily SNL.
Yeah.
It was the, the audience, audiences, audiences at home liked it.
Yeah.
It's 11 minutes of Norm.
I'm just like, and then this stare after the punchline as it's either working
or not.
It's just glorious.
That's skinny Norm.
Look how skinny he is there.
Yep.
Suit too big.
And yeah, they didn't, it wasn't like, well, well.
It wasn't like lauded within SNL story.
It was like his own like guerrilla unit.
Him and this guy, Jim Downey, who wrote kind of all of it themselves.
Well, SNL seems like they handicapped themselves.
Like they're handcuffing themselves.
Back then it was, but.
Less.
Less back then, but now for sure.
I haven't watched very much.
I'm, I'm, me and Joe's two friends.
I haven't, I just haven't seen it in a long time.
He's funny.
Yeah.
Joe's very funny, but like, and, uh, but, but I haven't seen it.
I, I, yeah, I haven't seen it.
I had a sketch that I wanted Joe's, I wrote.
So the, so the week Shane got fired, whatever, unhired, I thought of a sketch
and I texted,
I was going to be in New York and I have, so I had like a sort of open door
policy at SNL where I could just write because I wrote there with Dave.
So, so I had a sketch idea for Joe's where it's a, it was a, it was a couple is
getting ready to, they're in bed.
And they're like, so any, um, STDs you want to, you want to tell me about?
And they're like, no, I'm cleaning the, uh, any, uh, podcasts.
And we wrote, and then it was like, ah, I did one.
It was, it was like, it was a good idea about Shane, but like, whatever.
And then we wrote it and then it kind of got shelved.
Like the, my understanding was some of the people at the show didn't appreciate
this.
And then I was hoping Joe's, I was going to text Shane and be like, Hey, there's
a sketch you should do.
But I didn't want to be like, there's room for a show like, well, Gillian Keeves
is that if you watched Gillian Keeves, Shane, Shane show, I mean, I think I've
seen a couple of his fucking amazing.
It's fucking amazing.
It's underappreciated within the, the Gillian Keeves fans.
It's really appreciated, but the mainstream does not know how good those
sketches are.
He does, uh, only, uh, only fans, dad, a dad who needs to make money.
And so he does only fans insane.
It's insane.
He does his Trump speed dating sketch.
Oh my God.
Oh, that one I think I saw.
They're so good.
They're so good because it's buck wild because they're on the internet and
Patreon and kind of get away with doing whatever the fuck you want.
And it just has to be funny.
And, but that's really, you can't do that anywhere.
You know, if you're on a network television, you're dealing with so many
executives, they're all terrified and everyone's scared and everyone's ideologically
captured.
And there's certain things you can't joke around about.
And it's like, God, there's so much ground you can't cover.
And it's just, you handicap yourself.
You just, you just handcuff yourself.
Well, it's also the, the, as two aged men who have seen many parts of, many eras
of show business.
It seemed, it's, it's so, the whole thing has got the, the TV now feels like a
78 year old woman who still thinks she's fine.
And it's like, bitch, you're not fine no more.
You don't got to carry yourself like, like you, like, you know, everyone wants
to fuck me.
And it's like, not really.
You, you have all like the props from when everyone wants to fuck you, but
there's a lot of other women out here now.
And they still think they haven't really adjusted.
They kind of can't.
Right.
You know what I mean?
Like, how do you reduce network television?
How do you reduce late night TV?
How do you reduce sketch shows?
How do you, it's all still has to be what it always was.
The format is just, it's so restrictive.
The fact that you have to break for commercials, the fact that you have a
specific amount of time, all that is just, you can't compete with the internet
because of that.
It's just, you just can't.
And then you have all the meddling.
I mean, you've done, you know, workshop, you've dealt with Comedy Central.
It was fucking insane over there.
It was insane trying to tell them what is funny and what is not funny.
I will say after six episodes of Chappelle's show, they actually said, I
believe the quote was, we don't understand your show.
So kind of just do whatever you want.
They really said, like, we don't understand your show.
Yeah, because it's funny.
Right.
Because it was really funny.
There was a, we did the sketch, The Mad Real World, and one of the execs said,
like, it's an unfunny, it's a collection of unfunny scenes back to back.
And I was like, well, could we at least show it to the audience?
Do you mind?
And then we showed it, and it crushed.
Of course.
And then I kind, it's the only, and I got in the exec's kind of ear.
And I was like, I heard what you said about this.
And she was like, hey, Neil, take it.
Oh, they were back.
Because I was like, I was kind of.
Attached to it.
I was tattooing, and I was also very, I knew, it's with any of these things,
you know, you, Dave, any, anyone who's a star of the show, they're jumping out
of the plane.
Let them pack their own chute.
You know what I mean?
Like, you're jumping out of the plane.
If you don't want to say it, or you're not confident in it, then you shouldn't
have to say it.
Right.
And they wanted to pack the chute the way they thought a parachute should be
packed.
And it's like, no, they'll let the jumper do it, and if it doesn't work, then
you guys can.
It's really like someone who's watched surgery who wants to cut.
It's so dumb.
It's so dumb.
They don't know what they're doing, and their instincts are almost always wrong.
And if they're lucky, they find someone who's really good, who can kind of work
around their nonsense and still create a quality show.
But a lot of the times, it just gets in the way so much that you get, like, 60%,
70% of what you could have had.
Yeah, and you've got to also hope that you get, that the audience overwhelms
the network.
Meaning, South Park got off to a hot start.
Well, South Park was South Park before Comedy Central was Comedy Central, right?
Yeah, they made a video.
They were a little wilder back then.
Comedy Central was kind of the renegade.
Yeah.
You know, and then South Park became so undeniable.
You had to just leave them alone.
They were so good.
You just had to go, just shut the fuck up and leave them alone.
Yeah, and that kind of has to happen.
Yeah.
So, like, and it kind of happened with Chappelle's show pretty quickly.
Like, after the Blind White Supremacy, there was the first episode, they were
kind of like, oh, and then the ratings were good.
So, they kind of didn't, they tried to meddle, but they kind of, their heart
wasn't in it.
It hit a cultural landmark.
Yeah.
It hit this thing where Chappelle's show was the show.
It's like, when is it on?
When is it on again?
Yeah, whereas the man show was more like, ah!
Yeah.
You know, they're doing pretty good.
I think maybe we could help it somehow.
Yeah.
Or there, it's, you kind of either want to, you need to, if you, you just have
to succeed the big way, and then they'll stop.
Yeah, they, it has to be so undeniable that they have to get out of the way.
And you have to actually say that.
You got to get out of the way.
Like, leave us alone.
Don't leave us alone.
Yeah, if you don't leave us alone, we're not going to do it.
And that's the only way to do it.
It's like, that format is just so limiting.
And, you know, that format was all that existed.
And that was the essential format for television.
It was the only way to do it.
You had commercials.
You had an 8 p.m. time slot.
This is all simple.
You have 44 minutes with commercials.
Do it.
What would you do if you were the owner of NBCUnivers-
You know what I mean?
Like, I don't know what these companies should do.
Comedy Central is basically a production company now.
Like, they don't-
Yeah.
Well, they're doing the right thing, I think, in switching to streaming.
Right?
So, it's just a matter of being able to get enough quality stuff on streaming.
And get people over there.
So, they're going to have to shell out a lot of money for big properties.
And they've done that with, like, you know, Disney's done that.
And Paramount's done that.
And a few of these viable streaming platforms have managed to make, like,
really good shows
and put them on streaming.
And they can still do that.
You know, like, there's shows like Shogun, you know, which is just fucking so
good.
But, you know, it exists in both.
It exists in streaming and on television.
And they kind of make it for that.
You know, you still have the commercial breaks, but when you watch on streaming,
you just get
the full episode.
Yeah.
I also think there's probably very little input from advertisers, meaning if
something's
popular, people will just want to advertise on it.
They won't give a shit what the message is.
Is it family hour?
Does this line up with Procter and Gamble's values or any of that shit?
Right.
It's just like, yeah, are there eyeballs?
Let's go.
Yeah.
But even then, I mean, there's people that try to push back, even against Shogun.
There was this thing about, like, why aren't there no black people on Shogun?
Well, what do you think it's about?
It's about Japan.
It's like, what are you talking about?
It's about, I thought it was about guns.
Japan in the 1600s.
Like, what the fuck is wrong with you?
This is exactly what it is.
Yeah, I hope that didn't get very far.
No, it doesn't get far, but it's like they try, and that's the indicative of
the kind
of pressures that those people feel behind the scenes.
Yeah.
Because behind the scenes, it's all a bunch of grifters.
It's all a bunch of network executive grifters that are all just working a DEI
angle, and
they're trying to make, like, where's the diversity?
I mean, how many times have you had pitches where you bring it in, they're like,
where's
the diversity?
I don't have that problem, because I generally come with a diverse, like, I am
Mr. White diversity,
but, like, I hear you.
Yeah.
And, yeah, I don't, 