3 Comedians on OCD (Mark Normand, Howie Mandel, Maria Bamford)
Guests of the Blocks podcast with Neal Brennan discuss how their anxiety manifests.
00:00 Mark Normand
4:57 Howie Mandel
19:01 Maria Bamford
Watch Neal Brennan: Blocks on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81036234
Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased).
#podcast #comedy #standup #ocd #mentalhealth
@emilyyy227
September 14, 2025 at 10:11 pm
I’m on minute 12 and I feel like I’ve fast-forward at least 70% of this bc of my OCD. If you know you know. 😭😂🙏🏼
@vjmtz
September 14, 2025 at 10:11 pm
As someone with OCD on par with Howie, my best way to describe it: It's like being grossed out all the time. Imagine someone spitting a loogie in your hand. That gross feeling, then washing your hands from it. Then imagine that feeling you get when you go "I'll just wash it one more time for good measure". It's that feeling all the time. A feeling I'm sure we have all had at least 1 time in our lives. It's that and then knowing or thinking, or seeing someone do something gross, and you are trying to "clean up" or "make up" for having to deal with a gross event. Its just constantly there. That feeling.
@Ayeohx
September 14, 2025 at 10:11 pm
Crossed legs probably made it harder to be picked up or paid attention to for baby Howie. Maybe he didn't get enough attention.
@Sppedknot
September 14, 2025 at 10:11 pm
Tourettic ocd
@sizwesokopo281
September 14, 2025 at 10:11 pm
oh no…the noises and the reason for noises, way too close to home
@MM-zs7rp
September 14, 2025 at 10:11 pm
Honestly Mark sounds more ASD ritualistic than OCD. I have a feeling autism is raging undiagnosed under the surface of the comedy community
@Joe69Smith
September 14, 2025 at 10:11 pm
Must be deeply annoying to Howie that people essentially mock howie's disorder and maybe they do not know they are doing it but that is what you are doing when saying you like a tidy house is "OCD". That is like saying when you have the common cold you are suffering from stage four cancer. Lets get it right people. Hopefully people see this who struggle with this and it helps. You are doing some fuckin good Neal.
@Joe69Smith
September 14, 2025 at 10:11 pm
Props to Mark and especially Howie for opening up, we are all humans. Howie is the man, he is out trying to help people even has TV commercials. Good guy
@JosephScott-ct9sw
September 14, 2025 at 10:11 pm
I've been taking Lamotrigine for bipolar disorder and it also reduces my OCD.
@deadpool8340
September 14, 2025 at 10:11 pm
Mark the goat of Duck noises!!!
@Static-ash
September 14, 2025 at 10:11 pm
I get what Mark is saying, I've done similar with my ADHD and fitness. Hyperactivity is my most severe symptom so i wear myself out in the good way. Good for Mark. Didn't know he was such a beast 💪
@namereunused8968
September 14, 2025 at 10:11 pm
So good
@josef2012
September 14, 2025 at 10:11 pm
Mark is a legit weirdo lol
@watata1t
September 14, 2025 at 10:11 pm
Coming this summer Mark Normand is….. "One Swing man"!
@father3dollarbill
September 14, 2025 at 10:11 pm
Great pod, Neil.
@GatsbyMyself
September 14, 2025 at 10:11 pm
That’ll be enough you Comediatrist.
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