Glenn Wool

Glenn began his comedy career in his home town of Vancouver in 1995. He moved to London in 1998 and quickly became one of the rising stars of the London comedy circuit.

This year is looking to be Glenn’s busiest yet. He has recently returned from the Edinburgh festival, where his stand up show ‘Promises, Promises’ was a critically acclaimed sell out.

Glenn has written sketches for and will be staring in the second series of Comedy Cuts for ITV.
He is also appearing in a play, Office Party 2007, at The Barbican in December.

Last year he made appearances on Political Animal and 28 Acts in 28 Minutes for BBC Radio 4 and contributed to BBC3′s The Comic side of Seven Days. He also starred in Edinburgh and Beyond.

Glenn’s previous live show ‘You Don’t Go To Hell For Eating Elephants’ was debuted at the prestigious Melbourne Comedy Festival and was a total sell out at the Edinburgh Festival.
2005 began with appearances on The World Stands Up for Paramount and 28 Acts in 28 Minutes for BBC Three.In May 2005 Glenn wrote and starred in ‘What’s The Story?‘, broadcast on Channel 4 as part of the ‘Comedy Lab’

In 2004 Glenn performed his one hour stand up show ‘Relax’ at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2004 throughout August.

Also in 2004, Glenn performed in venues around the world including Switzerland, France, Croatia and Arabia and he headlined the Stavinger Comedy Festival in June.

In 2003 Glenn travelled to Australia and New Zealand. His four month trip began at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (March/April 2003).From Melbourne, Glenn travelled to New Zealand for the International Laugh Festival and then returned to Australia where he undertook a national tour. He was nominated as Best International Stand Up at the New Zealand Comedy Awards.

He appeared at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival at the Pleasance Theatre, with a show entitled Things That Occurred To Me Last Year, which he also performed at London’s Soho Theatre in December of the same year.

Glenn also gigs at venues around the country.
In 2002 he performed on the prestigious comedy stage at the Glastonbury Festival, the Kilkenny Comedy Festival and the South African Comedy Festival.
Glenn took his first one hour solo show, Bizarre Cocktail, to the Edinburgh Festival in 2002.His edgy and incisive material attracted a great deal of attention and the show sold out and received great critical acclaim.

Glenn’s TV credits include The BBC Stand Up Show , Edinburgh Comedy, Elvis Has Left The Building and Live Floor Show . He also headlined 4 at the Store on Radio 4 and The Late Night Comedy Show for Radio One.

What the press have said:

“You have to go and see Glenn Wool”
The Guardian

“Well worth an hour of your time”
The Independent

“Tipped for greatness”
The Telegraph

“His material is good and occasionally great. He is terrific on drugs. I was impressed”
The Scotsman

“Lethally funny”
Metro

“Wincingly funny, it’s enough to buckle a bull moose”
Melbourne Age

“He’s drop dead gorgeous. Bad news for other comics is that he is also very funny”
The Scotsman