#2135 - Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan (0:17)

I could save for the air, but...

Joe Rogan (0:18)

We're on the air.

Neal Brennan (0:19)

Oh, we are on the air. I just turned my monitor on because I could see myself and I didn't want to be... But in Sketches, 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 then 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 Neal tell you to turn around? So he couldn't watch himself. It just felt like you're just, if you're doing Rick James, maybe just be Rick James, not see yourself as Rick James.

Joe Rogan (0:55)

Maybe like affirmed as Rick James.

Neal Brennan (0:59)

Well, yeah, Rick James would look at a monitor.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

Yes, in that character. I would imagine that's actually a good move.

By the way, rest in peace, OJ.

Neal Brennan (1:07)

Simpson. Oh, my God.

Rest in peace, OJ.

Joe Rogan (1:10)

We lost the juice today.

Sam Tripoli posted something on Twitter today. It was OJ. Simpson just said, I did it. He posted on Instagram, but I guarantee you that that's fake.

SPEAKER_3 (1:25)

It looks like a fake tweet.

Joe Rogan (1:26)

Yeah.

Neal Brennan (1:27)

I watched, there's a lot of fake tweets. 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's so glorious. It was so relentless.

Joe Rogan (1:46)

He was so good.

Neal Brennan (1:47)

He was so fucking funny. We're talking about OJ. No, he was...

Norm was so fucking funny. And the glint in his eyes. And half the time he was bombing on SNL because it wasn't really his crowd.

And he didn't care. He did not care. And he kind of got fired for it.

Joe Rogan (2:08)

Well, he had a view.

He had a frequency that he was on. And comics loved it and the audience loved it, but, yeah, it wasn't necessarily SNL.

Neal Brennan (2:21)

Yeah, it was the audience.

Audiences at home liked it. Yeah, it's 11 minutes of Norm just like... And then this stare after the punchline as it's either working or not. It's just glorious.

Joe Rogan (2:38)

That's skinny Norm. Look how skinny he is there.

Neal Brennan (2:40)

Yep. The suit too big.

And yeah, it wasn't like well... It wasn't like lauded within SNL. It was like his own like guerrilla unit, him and this guy Jim Downey, who wrote kind of all of it themselves.

Joe Rogan (2:57)

Well, SNL seems like they hand decap themselves, like they're handcuffing themselves.

Neal Brennan (3:03)

Back then it was...

Joe Rogan (3:04)

Less, less back then, but now for sure.

Neal Brennan (3:08)

I haven't watched very much.

Me and Joseph are friends. I just haven't seen it in a long time.

Joe Rogan (3:13)

He's funny.

Neal Brennan (3:14)

Yeah, Joseph is very funny.

But I haven't seen it. Yeah, I haven't seen it. I had a sketch that I wanted Joseph... 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 had a sort of open door policy at S&L where I could just write, because I wrote there with Dave. So I had a sketch idea for Joseph's, where it was a couple is getting ready to... They're in bed, and they're like, so any STDs you want to tell me about? And they're like, no, I'm cleaning. Any podcasts?

And we wrote, and then it was like, I did one. It was a good idea about Shane, but like whatever, and then we wrote it, and then it kind of got shelved. Like 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...

Joe Rogan (4:25)

There's room for a show like... Well, Gillian Keeves is that. Have you watched Gillian Keeves, Shane's show?

Neal Brennan (4:30)

I mean, I think I've seen a couple of his sketches.

Joe Rogan (4:32)

Fucking amazing. It's fucking amazing. It's underappreciated. Within the Gillian Keeves fans, it's really appreciated, but the mainstream does not know how good those sketches are. He does OnlyFans Dad, a dad who needs to make money, and so he does OnlyFans. It's fucking insane.

It's insane. Does his Trump speed dating sketch?