Neal Brennan born 1973 is an American writer standup comedian director and producer He is best known for cocreating the Comedy Central series Chappelles Show Brennan and Dave Chappelle met when both were aspiring standups Through his older brother an established stand up comedian and comedy writer Kevin Brennan Brennan got a parttime 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 cowrote the film HalfBaked which starred Chappelle In an interview on Inside the Actors Studio Chappelle admitted that he and Brennan could not help but see each other as a painful reminder of the boxoffice failure of HalfBaked and lost touch with each other Four years later they rekindled their partnership to create the sketch comedy show Chappelles Show which premiered in January 2003 The duo wrote the sketches themselves with very little outside help Brennan is frequently mentioned during Chappelles standup 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 highprofile show How many times do you think hes 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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