Glenn Wool
Canadian Glenn Wool has got though several stage personas – and facial hairstyles – in the near decade since he arrived on the British shores. But the evolution has been a triumph, as he has grown to become one of the most exciting acts to grace our fertile comedy circuit.
This masterful, mischievous jester has created the perfect fusion of opinionated big-issue commentary with delightful silliness; using playful mockery to show up the stupidity of the world, rather than earnest polemic.
His signature routine is a brilliantly barnstorming take on the world’s religions. Such huge targets may have been the target of anti-Establishment comics for generations, and rightly so, but Wool convincingly makes this field his own; exposing ridiculous, anachronistic ideas not with malice, but a cheeky, amused charm. Likewise his take on the failed Al Qaeda attacks in Britain comes from a clever, funny angle that should shame any lazy comic making easy quips about aggressive Glaswegian baggage handlers.
It makes him an evangelical atheist; an eloquent preacher full of zeal for his passionately-held belief that the world should learn to lighten up a bit. And Amen to that.
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