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Entry Level with Brooks Wheelan
by All Things Comedy
This is a podcast about all those jobs we've had that sucked. Each episode Brooks will interview a guest and find out what garbage they had to put up with before they got to the position they're in now. Plus if you have any hellish jobs of your own you want to share email [email protected]
Episodes
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Episode 277 - Keli Holiday
Keli Holiday (the raddest dude in Australia) talks about creating the coolest music and being the best live performer Brooks has ever seen.
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Episode 276 - Alex Cameron
Alex Cameron (rad musician) talks about working at Foot Locker in Sydney, spending his summers in Deep Water, Australia, and how he got into making some of the coolest music out there. Check out Alex's first band Seekae here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2klcVENrEnQ See Brooks on tour:...
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Episode 275 - Rob Sand (the reasonable cool dude running for Governor of Iowa)
Rob Sand (Democratic Nominee for The Governor of Iowa) talks with Brooks about growing in Iowa at the same time only about 30 miles apart. Rob talks about catching chickens when he was 14, working at the McDonalds in Decorah, IA, and becoming an overseas male model almost on accident. It's a…
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Episode 274 - Amy Miller
Amy Miller (comic and friend) talks about growing up religious outside San Francisco and what it was like to work in video rental stores. Check out her podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whos-your-god-a-comedy-and-religion-podcast/id1247629653
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Episode 273 - Mike Bridenstine talks about the Kansas City and Chicago comedy scenes
Mike Bridenstine (great pal and author) comes on to talk about his new book where he writes about the MidWest comedy scene in the mid 2000s. Get his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Kansas-City-Comedy-Unbelievable-Stanford/dp/146717016X
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Episode 272 - Mike Mitchell ranks fast food and talks about sketch comedy
Mike Mitchell (Birthday Boys/The Doughboys Podcast) talks about getting into sketch comedy, what UCB was like when it first opened, and discusses his "holy trinity" of fast food restaurants. Listen to The Doughboys here: https://headgum.com/doughboys Subscribe to Brooks' travel substack here:...
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Episode 271 - Barry Rothbart talks about comedy in the 2010s
Barry Rothbart (Wolf of Wall street/stand up comic/Brooks' neighbor for a long time) talks about his new podcast "Searching for Allan Rothbart." Brooks and Barry also talk about doing comedy together for almost 20 years. Check out Barry's new podcast:...
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Episode 270 - Whitmer Thomas talks about being in WEAPONS
Whitmer Thomas (friend and currently in the #1 movie in the world) talks about being in Weapons and also just other movie junk. Also Brooks talks about his European adventure. Its a fun episode! Check out Whit's new music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK5Ax6M7vcI
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Episode 269 - Ryan Rosenberg talks about UCB and improv
Ryan Rosenberg (UCB/One of Brooks' first friends in LA) talks about taking UCB classes, scooping ice cream in high school, and crushing it at The Cheesecake Factory. Check Ryan's sketch group Big Grande here: https://biggrandewebsite.com/
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Episode 268 - Carmen Christopher talks Iowa and Chicago
Carmen Christopher (The Bear/Joe Pera Talks with You/English Teacher) comes back to talk about going to the University of Iowa the same time as Brooks, being killer salesman in Chicago, and almost joining the military. Check out Carmen's new special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoHTvTrfB2g...
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Episode 267 - Charlotte McKinney talks about being in a viral Super Bowl ad
Charlotte McKinney (model/acrtess/comedian) talks about growing up outside Orlando and modeling for her dad's car dealership, dropping out of high school and moving to Miami to pursue modeling, and ending up in a viral Carl's Jr. Super Bowl commercial. Check out Charlotte's podcast:...
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Episode 266 - Mike Hanford talks about not working at all his jobs
Mike Hanford (Birthday Boys/Sloppy Boys/Comedy Bang Bang!) talks about finding rooms to hide in at work, living with a bunch of other comics, and getting a sketch show made on IFC. See Mike live: https://www.instagram.com/mikehanford/?hl=en See Brooks live: brookswheelan.com/dates watch pool...
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Harder Than We Thought - Donner Pass
Karl Hess and Brooks went and made a proof of concept episode of a new podcast they're working on where they go to every national park and get in way over their heads. It's Earth Day so I felt like we might as well share it!
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Episode 265 - Chris Estrada talks growing up in South Central LA
Chris Estrada (This Fool, Comedy Central) joins Brooks to talk about growing up in Los Angeles, working at Dominoes, a movie theater, and construction sites. All before deciding to start stand up when he was 30. Check out This Fool on Hulu:...
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Episode 264 - Katherine Blanford
Katherine Blanford (The Tonight Show) talks about running on top of porta-pottys at the Kentucky Derby, going to school for sports management, and what it was like getting ready to do her first late night spot on The Tonight Show. Katherine's Don't Tell set:...
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Episode 263 - James Pumphrey
James Pumphrey (Key and Peele/Arrested Development/old roomamte) talks about growing up in Kentucky, joining UCB, and getting into the car game! Check out Jame's new channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@SpeeedCo
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Episode 262 - The Grand Canyon Death Adventure with Boosh
Boosh (rad friend/rad skater) joins Brooks to talk about what happened during their 18 day trip through The Grand Canyon. For info on how to enter the lottery to raft the colorado go here: https://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/noncommercial-riv-docs.htm
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Episode 261 - Liam Cullagh
Liam Cullagh (Almost Friday) is on to talk about working at a gas station, growing up next to the Patriots dynasty, and moving to LA to make sketches. Check out Almost Friday here: https://www.youtube.com/@AlmostFridayTV
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Episode 260 - Whitmer Thomas #3
Whitmer Thomas (HBO/FOX/BROOKS' FRIEND) hops on to discuss selling Brooks his car, hating parades, and making a special. Check out whit's Auto Talk video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2psW-Em2Ow
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Episode 259 - Alive In Alaska Spectacular
Brooks talks to the director (Isaac Rentz) and director of photography (Martin Vielma) about the making of his upcoming special, Alive in Alaska.
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Episode 258 - Dan Licata talks about Jackass and Tom Green
Dan Licata (Seth Meyers/Joe Pera Talks with You) discusses growing up on Jackass and Tom Green. We also find out about the origins of Joe Pera's show on Adult Swim, and overall have a nice hang. Check out Dan's new special HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrCb9rntbv0
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Episode 257 - Chris Fairbanks talks Montana
Chris Fairbanks (Comedy Central/Conan/Last Comic Standing/Jimmy Kimmel) and Brooks are about to do some shows in Brooks' favorite state that happens to be Chris' home state so they talk about it! Get tickets to the shows here: brookswheelan.com/dates
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Episode 256 - Shane Torres
Shane Torres (Comedy Central/New special out now) talks to Brooks about growing up the son of an Irish mom and a Hispanic dad in Texas. Check out Shane's new special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9mHurqZh_0
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Episode 255 - Joe Pera
Joe Pera (Joe Pera talks to you) comes on to discuss being a paperboy, becoming welcomed into the world of brick laying, and working on advertising for Dog The Bounty Hunter. Check out Joe's new special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_97zE4GRZk Check out Joe's MTV pancake show:...
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Catching up with Karl Hess
Karl and Brooks ramble. That's about it.
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Episdoe 254 - Caitlin Cook
Caitlin Cook (Off Broadway play "The Writing on the Stall") talks about going to kindergarten with Nic Cage's son, being a camp counselor, and wanting to leave LA for a small city. Check out Caitlin's play: http://www.thecaitlincook.com/ Join the patreon:...
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Episode 253 - Will Angus
Will Angus (Almost Friday) talks about growing up doing nothing in Dallas, switching back and forth between business and theater, then graduating exactly as the pandemic hit giving him nothing to do but make sketches. Check out Almost Friday…
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Episode 252 - Kara Klenk
Kara Klenk (Comedy Central/Magic for Humans) talks about babysitting a 2 week old when she was 12, moving to Italy to teach English to Italians without knowing how to speak Italian, being an NBC page for Conan, and running into Brooks in Puerto Rico. Check out Kara's new podcast here!...
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Episode 251: Bret Raybould (and catching up with Karl Hess)
Bret Raybould (off-Broadway show Race: The Movie: The Play) talks about growing up in Kansas City, working at Burger King, being an intern at Conan, then going back to Burger King, and how he ended up writing a play about Race. Me and Karl also catch up about our adventures. See all of Bret's...
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Episode 250: Straightiolab
George Civeris and Sam Taggart (Straightiolab): talk about growing up in greece and also Michigan. Check out their podcast, StraightioLab (iHeartMedia and Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network) with new episodes out every Tuesday: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-straightiolab-97815943/
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Episode 249 - Matt Goldich
Matt Goldich (Late Night w/ Seth Meyers) talks about how got into writing for late night with gigs at David Letterman, being an NBC page, and fetching grocery carts all around parking lot. Check out Matt on Late Night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAS029x1Srs
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Catching up with Nicky T
A midweek episode where we catch up with Nick Turner. See me on tour at brookswheelan.com/dates
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Wheelan Motors interview with Brooks and Isaac Rentz
Here is the interview Isaac and I did with Dead Pilots Society about the process of making a network show. Join the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/entrylevelwithbrookswheelan
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Wheelan Motors Episode 3 (Every Rose Has It's Thorn)
Here is episode 3 of Wheelan Motors! Read by: Jessica Lowe, Paul Scheer, Will Sasso, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Bobby Moynihan, Mike O’Brien, Gary Anthony Williams, Ryan Asher, Nick Rutherford, Joe Mande, Katrina Davis, and Joey Lyons. Join the patreon to watch the live performance:...
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Wheelan Motors Episode 2 (Bad Press)
Here is episode 2 of Wheelan Motors! Read by: Jessica Lowe, Paul Scheer, Will Sasso, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Bobby Moynihan, Mike O’Brien, Gary Anthony Williams, Ryan Asher, Nick Rutherford, Joe Mande, Katrina Davis, and Joey Lyons. Join the patreon to watch the live performance:...
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Wheelan Motors Episode 1 (The Pilot)
Here is a fun table read we did at The Elysian Theater in Los Angeles of episode 1 of the show we wrote for FOX that was ultimately passed on. The cast was great! It included Jessica Lowe, Paul Scheer, Will Sasso, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Bobby Moynihan, Mike O’Brien, Gary Anthony Williams, Ryan…
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Episode 248 - Whitmer Thomas and Clay Tatum
Whitmer Thomas and Clay Tatum (writers/directors of The Civil Dead) discuss what its like to make an independent film. They talk about the process of getting $30,000, being rejected from all the cool festivals, and then breaking through with someone who would help get them into distribution. It's…
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Episode 247 - And That's Why We Drink (Em Schulz and Christine Schiefer)
This week we talk to Christine and Em the hosts of "And That's Why We Drink." They discuss giving ghost tours, selling kites, how Chipotle works. This is all before they started they're rad podcast you should check out below if you haven't already. listen here: https://www.andthatswhywedrink.com/...
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Episode 246 - Ryan Asher
Ryan Asher (Second City/Great Comic) talks about growing up in Virginia working in a BBQ restaurant, going on Second City cruises, and spending two years on the Second City main stage before moving to LA. Follow Asher here: https://www.instagram.com/reen_machine/ See Brooks live:...
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Episode 245 - Josh Onstott
Josh Onstott (Other Lives/Colley Hobbs) talks all about growing up in Oklahoma where he worked in the oil fields before bailing to Stillwater where he worked in a music store and started making music which led to Other Lives, touring the world, and moving to Los Angeles. Check out Josh's new...
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Episode 244: Adam Newman
Adam Newman (Comedy Central/College Humor) talks about hanging out with Dusty Rhodes, working in a NASCAR booth, and finding out how the Neilson ratings work. Follow Adam: https://www.adamnewmancomedy.com/ Also see The Civil Dead: https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/the-civil-dead-2022
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Bonus Episode - Catching up with Turner
Brooks and Turner catch up and complain about everything. But also Turner is going on tour so go see him. follow nick for tour dates: https://twitter.com/nicksturners
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Episode 243 - Mike Mitchell
Mike Mitchell (The Doughboys Podcast/The Birthday Boys/The Tomorrow War) talks about being a garbage man in Boston, working in a quarry, and making $5.75 an hour all before deciding to move to LA and make an attempt at comedy. Listen to The Doughboys: https://headgum.com/doughboys See Brooks on...
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Episode 242 - David Gborie
David Gborie (the literal voice of Comedy Central) talks about growing up in the middle of nowhere Colorado, working at many gas stations, and not enjoying his time as a sandwich artist at Subway. All before moving to San Francisco and starting comedy. Check out David's podcast:...
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Episode 241 - Strider Wilson
Strider Wilson (Chad and JT Go Deep) talks about lying to become a valet, the biggest tips he ever got, and which celebrities are actually cool. Join the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/entrylevelwithbrookswheelan Check out Brooks on tour: brookswheelan.com/dates
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Episode 240: Erin Lampart
Erin Lampart (Comedy Central) talks about being the queen of a golf course, selling mops at malls, and getting talked out of college. Check out Erin here: https://www.instagram.com/thatssolampy/?hl=en Get tickets to the Zanies shows: https://chicago.zanies.com/
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Episode 239 - Willie Simon
Willie Simon (Brooks' new favorite comic) talks about growing up in Hawaii, working at a comedy club in Seattle, and sleeping in his car above the Comedy Store before breaking into the LA comedy scene. Check out Willie's comedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ItbaGZ950 Also Mike Bridenstine...
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Episode 238 - Willie Hunter
Willie Hunter (Comedy Central/Roast Battle) talks about growing up selling fireworks in Alabama, going to Auburn, becoming an engineer, then seeing Joe Rogan almost fight Carlos Mencia and deciding to move to Los Angeles to work at The Comedy Store. Follow Willie here:...
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Episode 237 - Derek Waters
Derek Waters (Drunk History) talks about growing up in the tire business, being denied a job at circuit city, and renting movies to celebrities at Hollywood Video. Ticket link to the Wheelan Motors Table read January 12: https://www.elysiantheater.com/shows/deadpilotssociety
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Episode 236 - Jay Larson
Jay Larson (Comedy Central / Twin Peaks) talks about growing up outside Boston making pizza, being kicked out of college a few times, and just deciding to move to LA bc no one believed he would. Check out Jay: https://www.jaylarsoncomedy.com/ Join the Patreon:...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This is a podcast about all those jobs we've had that sucked. Each episode Brooks will interview a guest and find out what garbage they had to put up with before they got to the position they're in now. Plus if you have any hellish jobs of your own you want to share email [email protected]
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