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Entry Level with Brooks Wheelan

Episode 208 - Donny Divanian

Entry Level with Brooks Wheelan

All Things Comedy

Business, Comedy

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Donnie Divanian (The Dress Up Gang/Comedy Central) talks about working in the vending machine world for a decade, being a tennis instructor for Bruce Willis’s daughter, and the podcast gets heckled from the street for the first time ever. Check out the Dress Up Gang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuePaFHcVFc Join the patreon: Patreon.com/entrylevelwithbrookswheelan

Transcript

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0:00.0

Ooh, yeah, uh-huh, listen up, yeah, I can see you're new to this

0:09.0

Yeah ain't got no job, yeah ain't got no experience, you're entry level

0:19.0

Yeah ain't got no qualifications, baby, you're entry level

0:27.0

Your entry level, your entry level, baby, your entry level

0:37.0

Ooh, yeah, entry level

0:41.0

Yo, welcome to this week's episode of Adventure Level, it's Brooks

0:44.0

I am in Dubuque, Iowa right now, but I head on an airplane to go back to Los Angeles to work on my TV show

0:52.0

That is very exciting, and I am just doing a quick solo intro, there's no one here, I'm totally alone, I'm a road dog

1:01.0

I did three shows in Dubuque over the weekend, they were fun, they all sold out, which was nice

1:09.0

I'll tell you the scariest place to ever do state of comedy is where you went to high school

1:15.0

And I did the shows here and they were nice and they were great, but filled with a lot of people that after the show would come up and say,

1:26.0

Do you remember me? And I just want to say if you ever think you should ask someone that question the answer is, no, don't

1:35.0

Just go up and say, hey, I'm this person, and then whoever you're talking to will say, I know, and don't turn it into a, do you remember me?

1:47.0

Oh, yeah, of course I remember you, I don't think you do, what are you talking about, of course I do, what's my name then?

1:54.0

Okay, fuck, I don't, like that happened so many times, it's crazy, just don't ask someone if they remember you

2:04.0

Just tell them your name, and they will be happy to talk

2:08.0

It was just a constant barrage of that, which was, you know, always pleasant surprises

2:17.0

Because I'm like, oh, yeah, my gosh, yes, we did smoke weed in the woods in eighth grade

2:22.0

Yes, who could have forgotten that we smoked weed behind Scott Welter's house in eighth grade, I'm an idiot

2:31.0

Shows are great, Comedy Bar is a nice place, check it out, there's one in Buk, there's one in Chicago, and there's one in Nashville

2:39.0

I recommend just based on the one in Dubuque, all three, and I will be at the one in Nashville, no, not Nashville, hot dog

2:47.0

I'll be at, I don't know if you guys can tell, I drank some beers last night with my friends after the show

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