Heywood Banks Coming To Wagon Wheel
December 13, 2017 at 7:04 p.m.
Heywood Banks Coming To Wagon Wheel
By Staff Report-
Banks is simply one-of-a-kind, almost impossible to describe, with a style his very own, according to a news release from the Wagon Wheel. This songwriter-comic-singer-poet-musician has become a cult hero and a pop icon, with a show that appeals to college students, stoners, businessmen, yuppies, rednecks, punks, kids or grandmothers, the release states.
He intersperses his humorous observations of life with twisted, inventive, bizarre songs, sung and played in a variety of styles, from folk to country to rock to pop and more.
Banks has been featured in “Rolling Stone Magazine” and “People Magazine.” He won first place in the Johnnie Walker Comedy Search Contest.
He has appeared on A&E’s “Evening at the Improv,” MTV’s “1/2 Hour Comedy Hour,” CNN’s “Hollywood Minute,” “Caroline’s Comedy Hour,” “Entertainment Tonight,” “Showtime Comedy Club Network,” “Dr. Demento Show,” “12th Annual HBO Young Comedians Special with Paul Rodriguez” and is a frequent guest on the national Bob and Tom radio show.
Stuart Mitchell, the creator of Heywood Banks, says his character was born on a mountaintop in Tennessee and lived for many years in a log trailer.
Bank’s biological parents, Hank and Heyena Banks, were killed in a freak revolving restaurant accident back in the 1960s – someone had hit the Puree Button by mistake. Eventually raised by mathematical parents, he was working in a Kroger bagging groceries when he was hit in the head with a can of lunchmeat, giving him spamnesia. This caused him problems for years as he became afraid of the dark, but couldn’t sleep with the light on.
Show time is 8 p.m. and tickets can be purchased by stopping by the Wagon Wheel ticket office, by calling 574-267-8041 or by going online to wagonwheelcenter.org.
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Banks is simply one-of-a-kind, almost impossible to describe, with a style his very own, according to a news release from the Wagon Wheel. This songwriter-comic-singer-poet-musician has become a cult hero and a pop icon, with a show that appeals to college students, stoners, businessmen, yuppies, rednecks, punks, kids or grandmothers, the release states.
He intersperses his humorous observations of life with twisted, inventive, bizarre songs, sung and played in a variety of styles, from folk to country to rock to pop and more.
Banks has been featured in “Rolling Stone Magazine” and “People Magazine.” He won first place in the Johnnie Walker Comedy Search Contest.
He has appeared on A&E’s “Evening at the Improv,” MTV’s “1/2 Hour Comedy Hour,” CNN’s “Hollywood Minute,” “Caroline’s Comedy Hour,” “Entertainment Tonight,” “Showtime Comedy Club Network,” “Dr. Demento Show,” “12th Annual HBO Young Comedians Special with Paul Rodriguez” and is a frequent guest on the national Bob and Tom radio show.
Stuart Mitchell, the creator of Heywood Banks, says his character was born on a mountaintop in Tennessee and lived for many years in a log trailer.
Bank’s biological parents, Hank and Heyena Banks, were killed in a freak revolving restaurant accident back in the 1960s – someone had hit the Puree Button by mistake. Eventually raised by mathematical parents, he was working in a Kroger bagging groceries when he was hit in the head with a can of lunchmeat, giving him spamnesia. This caused him problems for years as he became afraid of the dark, but couldn’t sleep with the light on.
Show time is 8 p.m. and tickets can be purchased by stopping by the Wagon Wheel ticket office, by calling 574-267-8041 or by going online to wagonwheelcenter.org.
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