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7/17/07
Neal Brennan at Comedy Village
Neal Brennan, co-writer of The Chappelle Show, stopped by Comedy Village last night. His intro mentioned his involvement in Chappelle Show and someone yelled out, "Were you in the game show one?" "No," he shrugged. "But I wrote it." [Laughs] "That's the problem with being off camera, no one knows who I am...I wrote Rick James." His set was solid. And even touched on the third rail of hack topics: Flying. "I want to tell an airline joke," he said. "But what is this, 1988? Too bad. I've got a really good observation about airlines."
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