Sep 23, 2026 · 1 hr 31 min · 14 segments
Sam and Glenn dlve into what Glenn has learnt by gigging all over the world for 30 years. They cover how he played rooms that had no interest in hearing comedy early on in his career, how stagecraft…
Glenn WoolGuestSam CarringtonHost
Well, I mean, I started when I was 19 and I was a young 19 in so many ways, but especially in my face.
And, you know, for the first good four years of my career, I really battled that because stand-up comedy in Canada is not...
If you wanted to be a stand-up comic in Canada, you had to hit the road, and I mean the road, the hard road, long, long drive.
And if the bar wanted to stay open for two hours longer, they had to have entertainment at least once a month.
And then the bar owner would run up, take the plants off of it, unfurl the backdrop that said, you know, comedy shack or whatever, put the mic on the stage and go, here's your first comic Glenn.
You know, people, I've got quite a loud persona on stage and, you know, the microphone is sometimes optional, but that's from that background because you just, you had to get the attention of everybody in a bar that didn't want to listen to you.
Well, I mean, I started when I was 19 and I was a young 19 in so many ways, but especially in my face.
And, you know, for the first good four years of my career, I really battled that because stand-up comedy in Canada is not...
If you wanted to be a stand-up comic in Canada, you had to hit the road, and I mean the road, the hard road, long, long drive.
And if the bar wanted to stay open for two hours longer, they had to have entertainment at least once a month.
And then the bar owner would run up, take the plants off of it, unfurl the backdrop that said, you know, comedy shack or whatever, put the mic on the stage and go, here's your first comic Glenn.
You know, people, I've got quite a loud persona on stage and, you know, the microphone is sometimes optional, but that's from that background because you just, you had to get the attention of everybody in a bar that didn't want to listen to you.
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