Neal Brennan

“I'm not going to say the market is flooded, but there are a lot of people doing comedy.”

“I think I've seen every 'Bill Maher' episode.”

“I just love well-organized, very serious nonsense.”

“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 always say to Blake Griffin that he has a better comedy career than I do.”

“I needed to be more self-determining, and the most self-determining thing you can do in comedy is stand-up.”

“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 only op-ed columnist in 'The Times' - where I read all of his stuff - is Paul Krugman.”

“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.”

“If you just want money and tax cuts and stuff, fine - just stop acting like you're moral.”

“There were some things I wanted to talk about. I wanted to talk about depression in public, I wanted to talk about being in the shadow of people I've dated and people I worked with publicly.”

“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 hardest part of comedy is writing the jokes, and the second-hardest part is telling the jokes. To me, everything else is significantly easier.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I think the best black screenwriter is Quentin Tarantino.”

“Whoever is saying the joke is my biggest priority.”

“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.”

“People doing rhymes that are nonsense - nothing can make me laugh like that.”