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GLENN WOOL After beginning his comedy career in his hometown of Vancouver, Glenn Wool moved to London in 1998 and quickly became one of the rising stars of the London comedy circuit. He was nominated as Best International Stand Up at the New Zealand Comedy Awards in 2003 and headlined the Stavinger Comedy Festival in 2004. In 2005, Glenn's live show, "You Don't Go to Hell for Eating Elephants," debuted at the prestigious Melbourne Comedy Festival and sold out at the Edinburgh Festival. Also in 2005, Glenn wrote and starred in "What's The Story?" which was broadcast on BBC 4 as part of Comedy Lab. Since then, Glenn has appeared on numerous BBC television shows including "The BBC Stand Up Show," "Edinburgh Comedy," "Elvis Has Left the Building," "Live Floor Show," "Comedy Cuts (ITV)" and "Political Animal."
In 2009, Glenn made his US television debut on Comedy Central's "Live at Gotham" and signed with CAA. After his appearance at 2010's Sydney Comedy Festival, he was awarded the 2010 Time Out Sydney Comedy Award for Best of the Fest. In 2011 he has appeared on "John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show" on Comedy Central and "The Green Room" on Showtime. His album "Let Your Hands Go!" is available through Stand Up! Records in stores and on iTunes.
Glenn Wool "Let Your Hands Go" CD
Glenn Wool avoids swearing. But he’s no soft-bellied sap. It’s simply that he doesn’t find swearing shocking or offensive enough for his first CD, “Let Your Hands Go.” In fact, with talent like Wool’s, it only takes one tightly-woven stand-up record to insult every major religion (plus a few minor ones and Alcoholics Anonymous for good measure); make a meta-joke about God being mentally handicapped (and then explain, in legal terms, why the audience actually isn’t allowed to be put off by that joke); and share a good half dozen sepia-toned anecdotes about illicit drug use. While he’s on a roll, he goes on to encourage the interrogation and torture of Dick Cheney (“He says it works!”); use the phrases “antelope in a top hat” and “the conductor position;” hypothetically whore out the population of Iceland; and deftly explain why it is that a gangsta rapper will never be scarier than a guy in head-to-toe Brooks Brothers.
Like Bob and Doug MacKenzie before him, Wool hails from the Great White North (or, as he likes to call it, “the way, way away”) and sports a populist outlook wrapped up in a scruffy package. But when the dirtbag Holocaust comes, he won’t be hopping on that “train to the AC/DC concert.” No, once you start trusting authority, Wool warns, you start believing the lies, and that’s about the time you nod politely when a Wall Street banker asks you for $750 billion. And he’s not having it: “I’ve heard better excuses from a junkie for where the money went! When you see a guy in a suit, kick him in the ass and tell him to go get your money!” Glenn Wool’s started an uprising, and Stand Up! Records is proud to join the revolt. Hell, we’ve already sharpened our Buddhist-pokin’ sticks.
1. New Swears 2. Kurt Warner, Thank God 3. Winter Festival 4. All Lee Major Religions 5. The Different Levels Of God 6. Making Society Choose 7. Jokes With Jews In Them 8. A.A. Meating 9. Drunk Glenn 10. Sober Glenn 11. My Friend Ed Wrote This Tag 12. Cocaine Glenn 13. Drug Alchemy 14. Wasted Time Waster 15. Iceland Iced 16. I Lost My Phone 17. The Environment 18. Why You Shouldn't Do Topical Material on Albums 19. Big Car People
