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Comedians Are Loners (Chris Distefano, Bobby Lee, Mark Normand, Ralph Barbosa)

Neal Brennan | August 21, 2025



Guests of the Blocks podcast with Neal Brennan discuss being alone.

00:00 Chris Distefano
6:04 Bobby Lee
9:28 Mark Normand
11:14 Ralph Barbosa

Watch Neal Brennan: Blocks on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81036234

Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased).

#podcast #comedy #standup #relationship #lonely #beingalone #mentalhealth

Written by Neal Brennan

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  1. @joeydealZ

    August 21, 2025 at 3:54 am

    very weird i actually think i have the opposite problem. i always find myself in solitude , yet im hilarious and always joking to myself being funny etc… its bizarre and like i never reach out to people.. its almost like unless i know people well enough i am never my true self around people

  2. @helpis0ntheway

    August 21, 2025 at 3:54 am

    Neal is a great therapist! I'm trying to soak this all in. My fear of abandonment as a child & loneliness manifested into drug addiction so I never have to face reality.

  3. @RL.YT.Handle

    August 21, 2025 at 3:54 am

    Maybe don’t generalize about all relationships based on relationships with the wrong person? Also, maybe in order to meet the right person you have to become someone who could be the right person for the right person? Maybe? šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø

  4. @Mtn4vq

    August 21, 2025 at 3:54 am

    My husband definitely has his own ā€œwingā€ of the house. His office is his, his tv, his computers, etc. This is perfectly reasonable to me. I want alone time myself pretty often. I think it helps me to sort myself and to miss him and then want to be together again.

  5. @deelite78

    August 21, 2025 at 3:54 am

    And here's Neal unknowingly (??) creating a classic conditional response for viewers by pairing a bell with negative emotions. Mastermind? Evil genius? In all seriousness, I'm a huge fan!

  6. @URone2

    August 21, 2025 at 3:54 am

    Embraced my solicitude, and genuinely look forward to the days I have planned with friends. Super extroverted, but at a certain point because of bad relationship, and friendships. Retreated back, and I think its saved my life.

  7. @HettiedeKorteDiplomaat

    August 21, 2025 at 3:54 am

    Such a strange thing to say about women. Women want sex too. Good sex. We're not looking for a trusting friend and and give you sex as a reward. Women are just like men thinking about sex a lot. Quality sex. Such al old- fashioned way of thinking: women reward men with sex. A woman friend of mine said: 'From the day I turned thirteen I was constantly horny.'

  8. @IceKoldKilla

    August 21, 2025 at 3:54 am

    Humans aren't meant to be alone for long periods of time. We have tribal people. We stick together in groups. But the West has gotten rid of that. You grow up and are told to move out and create a life. Some people barely talk to their parents ever again even if they had good parents.

    So in the end, loneliness is our biggest fear. I saw it with my mother when she died of cancer. Was always alone but loved it I guess. But in the end she was glad I was there with her until the very end.

    We all need someone. And whether it's kids, siblings, parents, aunts & uncles, grandparents, etc we need that. And I think it's work to get those values back or to at least undo the bad habits. Learn to share with others for example.

    I'm lucky that I found a woman that's like me. Both of us have our own issues and history with stuff but help each other. We do our best and rarely get upset at all, let alone argue.

    I WANT to spend time with her. And she wants her own time like myself sometimes. Yet we will do it together. I'm playing a game with headphones while she'll be watching her anime or horror movie on her iPad next to me. Or vice versa. So even when we wanna do our own thing, we are in the same room. We think alike, say the same shit, are attracted to similar things and yet have our own unique things that we share with each other. We introduce each other to stuff.

    2.5 years with her. I think it's possible. I was pretty lonely until SHE asked me out at my job. Been living together for nearly 2 years. I love it!

  9. @donaldquirk7801

    August 21, 2025 at 3:54 am

    Bobby Lee is the most open honest intelligent childlike comedian I've ever seen. I love that he just says whatever is on his mind, most people wear a mask and you can never figure out where you stand.

  10. @IceKoldKilla

    August 21, 2025 at 3:54 am

    Yeah I grew up forced to be alone due to what depression did to me. The meds didn't really work. And I just learned to be alone. But there are things I still did to not feel alone. Music was one but if I had internet that worked that day, I'd play games online.

    Kinda a sad life but those were my dark years so yeah, makes sense.

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