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.

Filmography

• 2026Pete Holmes: Silly Silly Fun Boy — Thanks
• 2024Neal Brennan: Crazy Good — Self, Director, Writer
• 2024Seth Meyers: Dad Man Walking — Director
• 2022Neal Brennan: Blocks — Self, Writer
• 2020Capone — Harold Mattingly
• 2020Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine — Thanks
• 2020The Opening Act — Chip
• 2019Seth Meyers: Lobby Baby — Director
• 2018Chris Rock: Tamborine — Executive Producer
• 2018Ellen DeGeneres: Relatable — Consulting Producer
• 2017Al Madrigal: Shrimpin' Ain't Easy — Director
• 2017Michelle Wolf: Nice Lady — Director
• 2017Neal Brennan: 3 Mics — Self, Director, Writer, Executive Producer
• 2017The Female Brain — Marco, Screenplay
• 2014Neal Brennan: Women and Black Dudes — Self, Director, Producer, Writer
• 2012Neal Brennan: The Half Hour — Himself, Writer
• The Mindy Project — Director
• New Girl — Director
• Funny or Die Presents — Director
• 2010Get Him to the Greek — Guy at Brian's House
• 2009The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard — Director
• 2006Totally Awesome — Director, Writer
• Chappelle's Show — Writer, Creator
• 1998Half Baked — Employee, Writer
• Kenan & Kel — Writer
• All That — Writer
• 1993Ice Cream — Woman's Brother
• 1990Caesar's Salad — Pumpkin Head

Appearances as themselves (19)

• Hollywood Squares — Self
• Snacked — Self
• The Comedy Store — Self
• COMEDIANS of the world — Self
• 2019Laughing Matters — Self
• Lights Out with David Spade — Self - Panelist
• 2018A Legendary Christmas with John & Chrissy — Self
• 2017Dying Laughing — Self
• The History of Comedy — Self
• The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self - Guest
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• The Approval Matrix — Self - Host
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• 2014Whitney Cummings Bleep Show — Himself
• @midnight with Chris Hardwick — Self
• Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee — Self
• Mark Twain Prize — Self
• The Daily Show — Self, Self - Guest
• Laugh Factory — Self