Entry Level with Brooks Wheelan

Jason Saenz (Great comic/Fun friend) discusses his upcoming return to comedy after he fell through a skylight, working for Steve Harvey, selling home windows door to door, running the social media for Divorce Court, and the ins and outs of working for REAL ROCK AND ROLL MOVERS in LA. Check out Jason's shows: https://twitter.com/jasonsaenz?lang=en Check out Jason and Nick's comedy central digital s...

JC Coccoli (New American Road Trip/Stand Up/Pal) discusses growing up in Pittsburgh working at one of the first Pirmanti Bros Sandwhich shops, being on a reality tv show in college, and working at The Laugh Factory the night Michael Richards AKA: Kramer went viral with racial slurs. Check out JC's show: https://www.amazon.com/The-New-American-Road-Trip/dp/B07K7YXFF9 Follow JC: @JCcoccoli Follow Br...

Dolph Ziggler (2x WWE World Heavyweight Champion/stand up comic) AKA Nic Nemeth discusses growing up in Cleveland proper working in an empty mall at a pretend GNC, loving construction work, and getting really really good at amateur wrestling with the hopes that it would one day translate into him wrestling in the WWE (sidenote: it worked). Follow Dolph on twitter and instagram: @heelziggler See Do...

Henry Zebrowski (Last Podcast on the Left, Wolf of Wall Street) talks about the delights of giving out his staff pic while working at a video store, working at Barnes and Noble on pills, being mugged three times in New York, and quitting multiple temp jobs by just "ghosting" them. Brooks and Henry also go off topic most of this entire episode but hey that happens!  Check out Henry's live shows: ht...

Matty Ryan (great stand up, one of Brooks' oldest friends) is in town to record a comedy central set so he stops by to talk about the tour he and Brooks lost their minds on, being fired by his uncle from his first job, being fired from scooping ice cream, and about the time he took a job to see how long it would take for them to fire him. Truly one of the worst employees ever interviewed.  Check o...

Jaime Moyer (AP Bio, Bob’s Burgers, Second City) talks about playing a ghost child in local Detroit play as a 3 year old, working the coat check at an underground BDSM nightclub, and killing it at a movie theater. Check out Jaime: https://twitter.com/jaime_moyer?lang=en Tix to the NYC May 30 show: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brooks-wheelan-tickets-60418110194

DJ Douggpound AKA: Doug Lussenhop (Tim and Eric, Portlandia) talks about editing for Playboy.com, working alongside the worst villains in all of Chicago, and how Subway used to mean something with the tri-cut sandwich top! Doug's gram: https://tinyurl.com/y38gvt8z The GI Joe's videos: https://tinyurl.com/zym9tas Behind the scenes Tim and Eric: https://tinyurl.com/y2649f85 tix to NYC show: https://...

I promised once we hit 1000 reviews I'd get my pal Leo, well this is what happened.

Greg Barris (stand up/brooks' camping friend) talks about being the nervous announcer for giant water ski shows in Central Florida growing up, handing out fliers for comedy shows for money, and how he somehow ended up owning a pizza business for a few years. Check out Greg: https://twitter.com/gregbarris Tix for the May 30 NYC show: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brooks-wheelan-tickets-60418110194?a...

Mike Holmes (great comedian, the only person Brooks knew when he moved to LA) discusses the child labor laws broken while "detasseling" corn growing up, being the man at Lone Star Steakhouse, failing out of a few colleges while working at Carlos O'Kelly's, and being a solid worker for Sherwin Paints. It's a MidWest heavy great episode. follow Mike: @holmesjokes GET THE MUG: https://www.etsy.com/sh...

Nate Craig (Maniac on Netflix, great stand up) talks about how he met Brooks 13 years ago in Iowa. He also discusses substitute teaching in inner city chicago, failing on the first day of delivering newspapers, and how he's pretty sure at one point in his life he could take any 8th grader on the planet.   Check out Nate: https://natecraig.com/ GET THE MUG: https://www.etsy.com/shop/EntryLevelStore

Vince Averill (We Watch Wrestling Podcast, great comic) talks about how it's not unusual to find a dead body when you work in the Detroit Parks system, what really goes down inside the Big Boy restaurant chain, and the time he smelled like too much booze when working at a homeless shelter. Listen to Vince's podcast: https://headgum.com/we-watch-wrestling Help our pal Jason Saenz: https://www.gofun...

Mary Sohn (AP Bio, dope rad friend) discusses hooking people up with ice cream in Champagne, IL, working at a kid's play area called "Ants in Their Pants", and doing improv on cruises. WATCH AP BIO Thursdays Check out Mary: http://www.missmarysohn.com/index.html Get the mug: etsy.com/shop/entrylevelstore

Chris Schlichting (Brooks' oldest friend in comedy) swings by to discuss the open mic scene in Eastern Iowa when Brooks showed up in 2006. He also talks about being a janitor at a veterinarian's office, spending all his money at Old Navy, and never being bumped up to "server." Check out Chris' comedy: https://youtu.be/UjJRCVcz-hU Check out Chris' website: www.schlickcomedy.com Watch Travels and Su...

Whitmer Thomas (great comic, Brooks' old roommate) discusses the jobs available on the Alabama coast growing up, charging a woman $17,000 on a $1.70 ice cream cone, and sleeping with a babe he delivered groceries to. Check out Whit's podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/american-arts-culture-review-clay-tatum-whitmer-thomas/id1438810598?mt=2 Check out Brooks' travel show: https://www.youtu...

Lizzy Cooperman (comic and pal) talks about helping Prince shop, being a great phone salesperson, and getting accepted to a mime school in Paris. Check out Lizzy: http://www.lizzycooperman.com/ GET THE MUG: https://www.etsy.com/shop/EntryLevelStore Check out Travels and Such Episode 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avigLRUVvAE

Fortune Feimster (great comic, rad actor) discusses being demoted to trash collector, how to take shortcuts if you’re an RA, causing a child to fail English, and being fired from job of “personal assistant” before her comedy career took off.   Check out Fortune on tour: Check out the Instagram: @entrylevelwithbrookswheelan GET THE MUG: etsy.com.entrylevelstore

Sasheer Zamata (great comic, used to share an office with brooks at a sketch show) discusses what it's like to be a character at Disney World, drag puppets around NYC for free, and also get hit by a fucking car. See Sasheer live: http://sasheer.com/ Email the show for tickets to see brooks: entrylevelwithbrookswheelan@gmail.com GET THE MUG: https://www.etsy.com/shop/EntryLevelStore

Kyle Kinane (one of Brooks' favorite stand up comics and also pal) talks about his time at K-Mart, getting hammered while delivering pizzas, eating the donuts from the donut factory he worked in, being fired immediately upon moving to LA, and working as a closed captioner with Matt Braunger. Check out Kyle: http://kylekinane.com/ GET THE MUG: https://www.etsy.com/shop/EntryLevelStore Email the pod...

Jon Huck (great comic, fun friend) discusses hanging out a liquor store so much he just started working there, being asked multiple times "What are you here for? We fired you.", and arguing with women over beanie babies. Check out Jon live: https://www.jonhuck.me/ GET THE MUG: https://www.etsy.com/shop/EntryLevelStore Check out the new IG: @entrylevelwithbrookswheelan

Josh Meyers (MadTV, rad dude) discusses being seen on tv at a basketball game when he was pretending to be sick, breaking a man's car then having to find him to tell him, and living in Amsterdam trying to talk people at the Anne Frank house into seeing comedy. Check out Kevin Barnett: https://tinyurl.com/yb5fyfnr Another Kevin clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V1P1XrEl-0 Bird Luger FOREVER

Todd Glass (one of Brooks' favorite stand up comics) discusses being a great employee at Dairy Queen, seating people at a theater, and then going head first into comedy at the age of 15.  Check out Todd live: Toddglass.com Check out The Attempt: https://vimeo.com/256173576 Check out the new instagram: @entrylevelwithbrookswheelan

Emily Maya Mills (great stand up AND fried) talks about joining the work force at the old age of 11, pretending to not know who Leonardo DiCaprio was to upset him, and the art of getting out of having to make drinks you don't know how to make. Check out Emily: @emilymayamills Check out the new gram: @entrylevelwithbrookswheelan GET THE MUG: https://etsy.com/shop/EntryLevelStore

Josh Adam Meyers (God Damn Comedy Jam) is on to discuss what it's like to go from being employee of the month at Outback Steakhouse to fired from Outback Steakhouse in a matter of weeks, finding his calling as a party DJ, and also not enjoying his other calling as a strip club DJ. Check out Josh's podcast: https://tinyurl.com/ycsqln6d GET THE MUG: https://www.etsy.com/shop/EntryLevelStore Check ou...

Ricky Carmona (Tosh.0, great stand up) talks about showing up to work looking like Steve Urkel, serving prom kids, quitting jobs on the spot, and being a youth counselor for a hot second.   Check out Ricky’s podcast: https://www.maximumfun.org/shows/who-shot-ya Check out Ricky: twitter.com/RickyCarmona Follow the new intagram: @entrylevelwithbrookswheelan Get the Mug: https://www.etsy.com/shop/Ent...