Brooks Wheelan

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Live at The Bend · West Bend, Wisconsin Brooks Wheelan Stand-Up Comedy · One Night Only Stand-Up Comedy Saturday Night Live Alum Late Night & Conan With Opening Comic Iowa-raised, SNL-seasoned and gleefully self-deprecating, Brooks Wheelan turns bad jobs, bad decisions and one very fancy Red Lobster into the kind of stories you’ll be retelling on the drive home. Sponsored by Shooting Star Travels One Night Only Friday November 6, 2026 6:30 PMDoors 7:30 PMShow Get Tickets On Sale Now Tickets from $25. Get tickets — all sales final. “Wheelan is a considerable talent with a unique voice and perspective.” The A.V. Club Laugh First A preview of what’s coming to West Bend Two sets to watch before you grab seats: one from late-night TV, one from his latest special. Brooks Wheelan Stand-Up on Late Night with Seth Meyers Teenage embezzlement and arguing with conservative parents, straight from the Late Night stage. “Red Lobster IS Fancy” · Alive in Alaska A fan-favorite bit from his 2024 special, on the late-in-life discovery that Red Lobster is not, in fact, fine dining. From Iowa to Studio 8H A Midwestern comic with a national résumé Brooks Wheelan grew up in small-town Iowa and went to college at the University of Iowa before stand-up took him to the coasts. His breakout came fast: in 2012 he was tapped as one of Comedy Central’s Comics to Watch at the New York Comedy Festival and made a splash as a new face at Montreal’s Just for Laughs. That momentum carried him to NBC, where he spent Season 39 of Saturday Night Live as both a writer and a cast member. Since then he’s done stand-up on Late Night with Seth Meyers and CONAN, taped a half-hour for Comedy Central, and turned up on HBO’s Girls. His debut album, This Is Cool, Right?, reached No. 1 on the iTunes comedy chart, and his latest hour, Alive in Alaska, arrived in 2024. Onstage he’s loose, honest and happy to be the butt of the joke. Friday, November 6 he brings that act to a 1929…

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