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After last years critically acclaimed and emotionally exorcising3 Micsspecial, Neal Brennan needed a release valve.
Im sorry if thats what youve come to expect.
Here We Gois just stand-up.
Its just one mic.
Im keeping it nice and light.
I got [the sad stuff] all out of my system.
I want to talk specifically about the 12 minutes he opened his special with about Jacksonville, Florida.
Why this particular opening bit?Its like comedic malpractice.
But yet at the end of that 12-minute opener, I feel good.
Im in the palm of his hand.
Everybody who plays New York will open with a food or neighborhood bit, yada yada yada.
But to do 12 minutes on Americas, like, 30th most populous city?
The commitment alone is hilarious.
And miraculously, you stay with him the whole time.
Why do you think it shouldnt work comedically?
Is it overtly pandering to the hometown pride of the audience?Honestly, it shouldnt workstatistically.
Im looking at the stats for Jacksonville as we speak.
So its a city of 800,000 people.
Sixty percent white, 37 percent black and Latino.
Thats pretty impressive for a major city.
Percentage-wise, thats a large amount of black folks.
At the same time, youre on a worldwide platform.
Why should we care about Jacksonville?
Katt just makes you care.
He makes Jacksonville sound like the most interesting city on the planet.
I still didnt know the county.
I thought it must be Dade, but its not Dade.
People know the county and dont even know the city!
Its like he works for the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce.
Ive never seen someone actively have a go at get the key to the city.
Again, to punctuate all of this, I say it with awe because it totally works.
Even whenGreat Americastarts, Katt is introduced onto the stage as the king of underground comedy.
Because hes never turned to white people for help.
You know what I mean?
Hes done HBO specials.
Hes done Netflix specials now.
But he wasnt on a Disney sitcom.
He didnt do the traditional late-night set route.
He doesnt really play ball, so to speak.
Hes like a street legend.
Hes in trouble with the law all the time.
There isnt an image he tries to maintain.
Sadly now when you hear about him, its usually legal troubles.
Katt is a modern success story yet he still feels like a throwback to another era.
Katt is still very raw.
Hes also more act-out oriented.
His stool game is the greatest of all time.
Its unprecedented what this guy can do with the stool.
Hell ride it like a motorcycle.
Hell hide behind it like an elephant leg.
He can just do a lot of stuff with it physically.
Im sure hes worn it at some point.
Hes sort of his own thing.
He might be on tours with other people, but Katt just goes his own way.
Hes such a unique dude.
I dont remember whenThe Pimp Chronicles, Pt.
1came out, maybe like 05 or 06.
The thing people dont remember is YouTube is only 12 years old.
There was no YouTube fame.
He was just a comic with an HBO special that had an all-timer bit about Michael Jackson.
Dude just has incredible bits!
It wasnt like, and then this comedian got a sitcom on Thursday night on NBC!
Katt didnt parlay it into anything.
No, he was a comedian first.
Sure, he did movies from time to time, but hes a comedian and a person.
It was never about him capitalizing on this for something else.
A lot of comics dont mind being or just want to be comedians.
Like, thats enough.
When you watched that show and saw him perform, you knew it was an inevitability.
He was this stand-up guy on an improv show and youd go, Who is that?
He doesnt remind me of anybody.
Great Americadoesnt avoid talking about the current administration, but nothing feels immediate or ripped directly from the headlines.
Katt speaks to topical moments with a distance.
Samantha made a bad choice.
Roseanne has a track record of being racist.
All these people are saying she may have been on Ambien or drunk or whatever.
I literally saw somebody say, That [shooting schedule] almost killed her!
She wrapped in December, dude.
What are you talking about?
She had five months to get her sleep schedule right.
Roseanne is genuinely racist.
Its not the first time she tweeted something like that.
Thats the first time Samantha has called somebody a cunt.
Thats the first one.
For Roseanne, its a repeat offense.
Trump inserted himself into the comedy world by condemning Samantha and defending Roseanne.
They just want their guy to win.
They dont care if hes immoral.
It largely can be tracked back to: These brown people are doing blank.
You know that white lady calling the cops on the barbecue?
That is basically what Trump voters did with the election.
They went Hey, this black guy is the president and I dont like it.
Can you send somebody out?
And they sent Trump.
Thats how I feel.
If you just want money and tax cuts and stuff, fine just stop acting like youre moral.
Thats the thing that drives me crazy.
You cant say youre moral and you cant say that youre consistent.
I get that money is important, and its scary to think that you wont have enough.
At the same time, we can set up reasonable social safety nets and take care of everybody.
