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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
aturnis - Brooks was recently on Mohr Stories, Jay Mohr's podcast. Find it on Itunes or Google if you like.
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I'm really good friends with his brother, Brett...Brett is one of the funniest people I've ever met. One of those guys who is funny without trying. He insists that his older brother, Brad is the funniest of the 3 bros, but I don't know him as well. The entire family is funny...the mother, father... they are a funny family.
I've known Brooks forever. I wrestled Brett for 3rd and 4th at state wrestling as a 6th grader and we hung out outside of wrestling after that. Got to know Brooks through that. When we were in 8th grade, Brooks, who was in 4th grade at the time, made the finals and wrestled future Univeristy of Iowa wrestler, Ryan Morningstar. Brett and I were coaching Brooks in his corner during that match. He lost, but gave him a decent run.
After Brett and I graduated, the Wheelan family moved to the city where I went to college (and was wrestling at), which was Dubuque. He went to Dubuque Hempstead. Brett wrestled a bit with us in practice and after practice, sometimes I would hang out with the Wheelan family. I chilled with Brooks quite a bit. At the time, he had just made it a goal of his that he was going to pursue stand-up. He was in the middle of making this short film for school called, "Rollin' N the Dubz." During that time, he was really into Mitch Hedberg, Kevin Smith (primarily the movie "Mallrats" at the time) and Mr. Bean of all people... He really liked the stuff Bean did prior to becoming somewhat known in the states. Some pretty fun times.
Hung out with Brooks a bit while he was in college at the University of Iowa. Even hung out with him during Halloween in which he and another guy were dressed up as the Mcpoyle brothers from "It's Always Sunny" and I was Green Man (Charlie from "It's Always Sunny.") He and his bro came down to SEI, which is where I am from...Brett a bunch of times, Brooks once. He did some standup in Burlington, which is the "big city" in my region and was heckled a bit by some of the hill-rods who were in attendance. The area I am from is more or less, "Hickville." I don't think they "got" his routine. I thought he had a really funny bit about drunk texting his grandma and his grandma freaking out because she thought he was a robot. He was only up there for a few minutes.
Anyways, Brooks is a nice dude. Comes from an extremely nice family. One of my favorite families. It was pretty cool watching him do his thing last year...
You should check out the shout out that Judd Apatow gave him after he was fired from SNL via twitter.... He may have a future yet.