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Neal Brennan
Villanova, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Neal Brennan (born 1973) is an American writer, stand-up comedian, director, and producer. He is best known for co-creating the Comedy Central series Chappelle's Show. Brennan an…
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Neal Brennan (born 1973) is an American writer, stand-up comedian, director, and producer. He is best known for co-creating the Comedy Central series Chappelle's Show. Brennan and Dave Chappelle met when both were aspiring stand-ups. Through his older brother, an established stand up comedian and comedy writer Kevin Brennan, Brennan got a part-time job working as the doorman at Boston Comedy Club in New York City where Chappelle was a frequent performer. They became good friends and collaborated on jokes. They co-wrote the film Half-Baked which starred Chappelle. In an interview on Inside the Actor's Studio, Chappelle admitted that he and Brennan could not help but see each other as a painful reminder of the box-office failure of Half-Baked and lost touch with each other. Four years later, they rekindled their partnership to create the sketch comedy show, Chappelle's Show, which premiered in January 2003. The duo wrote the sketches themselves with very little outside help. Brennan is frequently mentioned during Chappelle's stand-up routines. On an interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show on February 9, 2006, Chappelle stated that Brennan made no attempt to contact him, despite the numerous media reports that Chappelle went to Africa to escape the pressures of running a high-profile show. "How many times do you think he's called his sick buddy since he went to Africa?", In an interview in the July 2006 issue of Maxim Magazine, when asked if he would ever work with Chappelle again, he said there was "no chance." Neal Brennan was recently accused of credited for writing comedy material for the 83rd Academy Awards. In May, 2011, he wrote material for his friend Seth Meyers at the White House Correspondents dinner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Neal Brennan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
Pete Holmes: Silly Silly Fun Boy
Movie Thanks
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2025
Hollywood Squares
TV show Self
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2024
Seth Meyers: Dad Man Walking
Movie Director
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2024
Neal Brennan: Crazy Good
Movie Self
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2022
Neal Brennan: Blocks
Movie Self
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2021
Snacked
TV show Self
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2020
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
Movie Thanks
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2020
The Opening Act
Movie Chip
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2020
The Comedy Store
TV show Self
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2020
Capone
Movie Harold Mattingly
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2019
Seth Meyers: Lobby Baby
Movie Director
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2019
Laughing Matters
Movie Self
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2019
Lights Out with David Spade
TV show Self - Panelist
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2019
COMEDIANS of the world
TV show Self
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2018
Ellen DeGeneres: Relatable
Movie Consulting Producer
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2018
A Legendary Christmas with John & Chrissy
Movie Self
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2018
Chris Rock: Tamborine
Movie Executive Producer
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2017
Michelle Wolf: Nice Lady
Movie Director
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2017
The Female Brain
Movie Marco
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2017
Al Madrigal: Shrimpin' Ain't Easy
Movie Director
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2017
Dying Laughing
Movie Self
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2017
The History of Comedy
TV show Self
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2017
Neal Brennan: 3 Mics
Movie Self
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2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV show Self - Guest
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2014
The Approval Matrix
TV show Self - Host
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self - Guest
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2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV show Self
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2014
Whitney Cummings Bleep Show
Movie Himself
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2014
Neal Brennan: Women and Black Dudes
Movie Self
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2013
@midnight with Chris Hardwick
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2012
The Mindy Project
TV show Director
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2012
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
TV show Self
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2012
Neal Brennan: The Half Hour
Movie Himself
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2011
New Girl
TV show Director
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2010
Get Him to the Greek
Movie Guy at Brian's House
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2010
Funny or Die Presents
TV show Director
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2009
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
Movie Director
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2006
Totally Awesome
Movie Director
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2003
Chappelle's Show
TV show Writer
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1999
Mark Twain Prize
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