Neal Brennan Quotes

I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

In high school, I didn't know what comedy was, but I was involved in speech and debate and public speaking.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

Lewis Black taught me stand-up.

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I'd read the school bulletin to the class, and I'd add activities and make stuff up. It was good, a good 10 minutes every morning.

I just do jokes about real situations, pure observation.

Chappelle is incredible. He is comfy on stage and he talks about big things and small things. He's a version of himself. That's what I've always wanted to be and hopefully I still am.

I think comedy suits me best.

The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.

Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry.

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian himself, and he was so funny. We'd watch stand-up on TV, and he'd tell me the subtext of what they were saying.

Comedy is second nature for me.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.