I think the only op-ed columnist in 'The Times' - where I read all of his stuff - is Paul Krugman.
— Neal Brennan
I'm not good at Reddit; I don't go to the most popular parts.
Even at it's worst, 'Def Jam' was extremely interesting and extremely well performed. And the crowds were amazing.
I don't think there is 70 good hours of TV in a week.
I think I've seen every 'Bill Maher' episode.
Here's the thing about standup directing: not that hard. As I said on Twitter one day, or maybe it was Instagram - sorry, I want to keep my platforms straight - it's essentially the same five shots over and over again. Seven if you're ambitious.
The fear of public speaking is a primal fear. You can train your body to not be crazy when you're doing it, but it truly is a primal fear.
I'm not going to say the market is flooded, but there are a lot of people doing comedy.
Being able to write jokes is great, but you still have to get used to performing them and being on stage - and enjoying being on stage, not just like tolerating it.
Black audiences are probably the toughest for me to make laugh. I've gotten pretty good at performing for them, but it's still a challenge.
I find that I like what I like. I like a strong melody, I like an inventive structure and I have to like the singer's voice or I have no interest in it.
I get music from odd places that I assume are fairly typical at this point. I'll just go on iTunes, go to EDM and just look at the Top 100, or I'll go on the Beats app and look on the playlists that are sort of curated.
I always say to Blake Griffin that he has a better comedy career than I do.
If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.
America doesn’t have poor people, they have temporarily embarrassed millionaires: meaning there are people who are poor for now but that’s all about to end when ‘blank’ happens, or when the number comes in, or when the invention takes off.
I needed to be more self-determining, and the most self-determining thing you can do in comedy is stand-up.
Someone like Bethany Frankel goes from being, like, 'some lady' to a star with arguably as much charisma as anybody else on TV. I personally find that riveting.
I love 'Frontline.' It's the best TV show in the history of television.
I mean, no, I don't think anything is too far; you can make fun of anything.
If somebody says my ideas aren't good in the afternoon, I can go to a club that night and try to prove them wrong.
I think being honest on TV is pretty rare. So if I can be that, I would like to be.
Comedy's the only job I say where you wake up and you're like 'Can’t do it!'
I do have weird habits when I'm directing, or even think as a director, like when I move a cup, I make sure to put it back in the exact right place.
There's nothing worse than trying to be funny and not being funny.
I had people think I was brilliant, then 'Half Baked' bricked. They literally look at me like a homeless person.
I think the thing I had going for me is a good pedigree and joke-writing ability. But a good pedigree, for the audience, doesn't matter past the first 90 seconds.
I think the future belongs to the comedic polymath. It belongs to the person who can generate the most good material in the biggest variety of ways, whether it's sketches or stand-up or songs or tweets or television or films.
I just don't believe in the old definition that a fan of music is: I find a band, I listen to all of it and I pretend to like stuff that I don't like. Now if I don't like it, I just go, 'I don't like this.' It's way fairer.
I think the best black screenwriter is Quentin Tarantino.
'Jersey Shore' is one of the best shows of all time. They had so many hooks.
It's way more fun to tell jokes for an hour than it is to sit in a room and bash your head against the wall trying to think of sketches.
The biggest problem in America is most people believe poor people are poor because they are lazy.
I haven’t watched 'Half Baked' in 17 years, since I was editing it. It’s like looking at an old picture where you have bad bangs or something.
What I love is getting a new joke, or a premise like a sketch idea or a movie idea. That's the best feeling for a comedian.
There are things that start small on Reddit, then they sort of gather and become major trends. Having said that, I mostly stay on the Top 100 page, so it's mostly just pictures of a dog looking like Chewbacca.
I generally don't read articles about myself/'Chappelle's Show,' nor do I read reviews. It's basically playing Russian Roulette. They're not all gonna be positive.
I just realized at a certain point that no matter how much writing I did, I'm still a gym rat for comedy clubs.
Honestly, I've always thought that Charles Barkley is the best guy on TV because he will really tell you what he thinks. But it's all well thought out.
The hardest part of comedy is writing the jokes, and the second-hardest part is telling the jokes. To me, everything else is significantly easier.
But my problem was that I did an hour for Comedy Central and nobody seemed to care.
The story of '3 Mics' is the story of a guy who wants to be something and is sort of figuring out how he gets there.
I would like to do theaters. That's always been a dream. I think that would be a good way to tour. But for the most part, in terms of, do I want to get recognized on the street? No. There’s not much I want about fame.
If I go to the store, I'm not trying to slip in the middle of the aisle so I can talk about it onstage. I'm at the store because I need food or medicine.
I love the fact that I can make a podcast in my house and tens of thousands of people will hear it. I also like that it's gotten rid of a lot of gatekeepers.
Why marry myself to an entire album? I don't have to. If I download four songs from somebody on an iTunes sojourn, that's about as good as it gets.
I think anyone can write about anything that they have knowledge of and exposure to.
I think the biggest influence on my stand-up would be Chris Rock, in that I love that Chris is basically an essayist, in that he’ll take a subject and just try and attack it from as many different angles as he can.
I think anything is possible if the jokes are good.
The Berlin Wall comes down in ’89, so then there’s basically a vacuum of who was the enemy and then Fox News comes along in ’95 and it becomes Democrat versus Republican. Now people on the right are fed a steady diet of anti Democratic party propaganda so they believe Democrats are the enemy and they will not believe anything.
I can always tell the demographic that will probably recognize me - white dudes, sort of skater-y hip hop white dudes, and working class black dudes.
