Neal Brennan Quotes

#1. If the word police want to come and get me, they can come and get me. If someone wants to blog about me, fine. The bloggers can come and get me. I clearly say the n-word in public, eight times. I think that's the count.

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#2. I'm making fun of midwestern homophobia [in the joke], but I'm still saying faggot. And almost every month as I'm doing that joke it gets five percent less of a laugh.

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#3. The rules may seem obvious but when you think about them they're not. For somebody who has my job they're not as obvious as one would think.

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#4. There are words that I wouldn't say because they hurt people's feelings. I just happen to be a white guy who writes for a lot of black comedians but if I wrote for a lot of gay comedians there might be stuff I would say then.

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#5. If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.

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#6. With comics it's very close, like, "I don't want to say anything onstage that I wouldn't say offstage." Or vice versa. I say "faggot" in my special and in the joke I am the faggot, if that makes sense.

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#7. If there are older black people in the audience that I can see I will not say the n-word. I know they grew up with a different meaning.

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#8. When I say the n-word, black people are clear that I'm on their side. And it's not disingenuous - I am on black people's side, clearly.

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