Name: Neal Brennan on His Relationship with Dave Chappelle | @TheoVon
Uploaded: 2020-05-25T19:04:31.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Neal Brennan on His Relationship with Dave Chappelle | @TheoVon' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-05-25. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Neal Brennan on His Relationship with Dave Chappelle | @TheoVon' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-05-25. Transcript available.

I have one question so you and Dave Chappelle you guys are on talking terms now
right yeah and
were you guys were so for a long time because what was that like you guys had a
we were and
it's okay we were not we the way the show went basically the way the
negotiation after
the show got popular was just not like good did you have a were you able were
you guys negotiating
together with Comedy Central or you guys were negotiating separate kind of
separately right
so where and that's the problem you know that's and I told him before we
started good you know
they're gonna play divide and conquer they have to pay you they don't have to
pay me so
the only way they'll pay me is if you make them and then they would they played
him there
it's just so many people come between when something's popular it just you just
get layers
layers of uh people that want to seem more important and want to seem like they're
doing
things for of course to protect Dave or who but it's not it was Dave in that
case but it's
a bunch of people it can be a fucking and so someone who actually is making the
thing they
resent me you know what I mean because like they're just they're not writing
that directing
it on in the shit um you mean like a like an executive like not executives like
more like
lawyers agents man oh yeah they resent you because you have to be included
because I'm part of the show
I'm I do the show right they're not I didn't just I don't call them to go I
make the show
did you so then that creates separation and then um and then he left and it was
fucking like that
added to it was that a surprise when he left I mean like in retrospect not
really but that's
a pretty big swing yeah yeah okay what do you guys think yeah like going to
Africa is like that's
pretty big like I didn't see that coming although like it that's exactly out of
proportion that's as
out of proportion as the rest of the show right right where it's like the most
popular shit and
then like what's the leaving the show version of the Rick James sketch going to
Africa right not
telling anyone all right I'll do that uh so there's that and then we didn't
really speak we spoke a
little bit and then since like we've been cool since like oh seven yeah um yeah
I know you guys
are I know you guys have been for a while did whenever you watch the last dance
did you think
of yourself like a Scotty Pippen at all of course yeah I watched I mean I said
it in three minds
I'm Scotty Pippen it was like it's like being on a team with Michael Jordan and
so it's funny
seeing Pippen get mad it's like I want to call him be like Pip there's nothing
we can do
yeah he's going there's just nothing you can do it's I've heard a story about I
want to play for
Birmingham yeah you know yeah and there's nothing and also like I gotta get my
did it it they can't
yeah the audience only understands single they don't know no one's ever been on
like even when
they say a dream team one of them's better yeah they always it's like LeBron
and D Wade it's LeBron
right capital LeBron smaller D Wade or or LeBron and Anthony Davis like but the
mixture makes it
of course right but and then if you're Dave but you don't want to fucking
acknowledge a mixture with
a fucking white person yeah you know what I mean and I get that
fucking well you know what I mean like yes and if you'd have been black do you
think that the show
would have been picked up for another season then well it wasn't picked up it
was picked up if I'd
been black that's a really good question uh I don't it's impossible to know I
would have been a little
no but then it yeah it there's a different there would have been different
tensions if I were black
there would have been like a lot of the same ones and then a host of other ones
that I probably don't
wouldn't realize right uh but but no of course so it's like they don't you
watch it and you go
yeah Scotty Pippen's fucking great yeah it's just not as great as him he shows
up he does just not as
good as him it's like that I that deal that all the time like there was a there
was a uh I went on
after dave at the comedy cellar one time and the uh the mc was like it's next
guy's co-creator
chapelle show and I go and I go on I'm like the co-creator chapelle show was a
really good credit
unless dave just went on and then it's nothing it's like yeah it's fucking
great oh that's interesting
unless the fucking guy was just here it's not now you're just like ugh
uh so I get the it's just an insurmountable I don't I but I I will say I'm I'm
not I'm not jealous
I'm not really jealous of dave hmm even uh Chris Rock said that one time he's
like you're just not
jealous you're just I don't like I'm mad I have like personal argument shit
with dave but I'm not
like I should have been rick james yeah I'm like fucking very different skills
yeah and uh and so
I'm happy to be myself and and to the underdog thing it is fun to uh climb out
of it yeah it's
fuck sometimes I look at my career I'm like this is a fucking miracle wow it's
a miracle that like
I was a writer for a tv show that was really popular and now I'm a kind of
famous comedian
yeah that's fucking impossible like I wasn't a comedian and then I like figured
out how to do it
and like it's it's crazy yeah and I'm not even like suck my dick like I just
mean like right I think
about it you just get like objective you look at your career objectively your
life objectively
you have to look at things yeah I mean even well looking back on on Chappelle
can you see like was
he just under you think like looking back now and knowing how we see like
people get stressed and
the overwhelmingness of things do you yeah I think it's just stress and I think
it's not it just once
things are not fun it's not and also once you're talking about that much money
and people know how much
money you're making and it's on the cover of the paper and it's like it's not
it's like yeah it's
it's it's like uh the difference I've said this to a basketball player like
difference between a rookie
contract and a max deal rookie contract everyone feels like they're even if you're
the best rookie
they're like man you're making five million bucks that's pretty fucking good
and then you get your max
you're making 33 million a year and they're like I don't know what you're gonna
do but it fucking
better be good go no go show me mr 33 million dollars and it's just a less fun
position to be in
yeah which is the thing of having never had a wedding like you know we'll we'll
never get I don't think
anyone will ever be like okay mr smarty pants or whatever like I don't think
that that's a thing
that we may never have to deal with and that which is good which is a good that's
an advantage that we
don't have to we'll have to deal with like it's not as good as this last thing
or any of that stuff
but it'll never be like I feel like Joe somehow got around it I don't think
anyone resented him and I
think it has to do with his looks and clothes um and habits I don't think his
habits yeah his habits
too he lifts people up a lot you know yeah he does I feel like include people a
lot yeah um uh so
that's the but I don't but like you know me and Dave argued about it for six
hours like three weeks
ago really uh-huh oh that's fun it's fucking hilarious it's hilarious it's so
interesting but
yeah what I mean what a comment because yeah like to think that to go then to
comedy central and they
won't give you a new show and then you're like wow I mean you had to feel well
they wanted me to
produce black sketch shows that I can do till I die um they'll give me please
yeah you got blank
check for that but I'm like I don't want it that's not what I that wasn't even
it was a black sketch
show but it was more just a show about Dave it wasn't like and then black
something black will happen
um yeah do something black and then somebody do blackness um and uh so yeah it
is I don't get many
opportunities they there's just people have a bias against me and that I don't
understand good evening
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