Josh Glanc ( ) is an Australian comedian. Known for his Surreal humour sketch and musical comedy, he has won a Best Comedy Show award at Fringe World and been nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award.
Manfül, his 2017 show, featured Glanc playing Dicky Rosenthal, a narcissistic bodybuilder character, hosting an information seminar. It appeared at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. At Fringe World 2017, Glanc won its Best Comedy Show award for 99 Schnitzels. He spent a year touring his show Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chamedian around Australia, the UK and North America in 2018, despite losing $10,000 in ticket sales at Fringe World 2018 due to the collapse of events company JumpClimb, and moved to London in 2019. Chamedian won Best Comedy at Fringe World 2018 and was the only comedy nominated for The West Australian Arts Editors Award.
In 2020, Glanc returned with his "more story based" show Glance you for having me, described by Fest Magazine as a "Lounge music autobiography". After spending the COVID-19 lockdown in London, he moved back to Australia in February 2021, ultimately being subject to 273 total days in lockdown in both London and Melbourne. His "greatest hits" show, Collections 2023, featured Glanc to Smash Mouth's "Walkin’ on the Sun" and other sketches. Glanc played the pig in Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Pig, a production billed as "Britain’s first professional Jewish pantomime", at the JW3 centre in London in late 2023.
Vrooom Vrooom, Glanc's 2024 sketch comedy special, was released through 800 Pound Gorilla after being filmed at Stupid Old Studios in Melbourne. The same year, he debuted his shows Collections 2024 and Family Man; the latter is described by The Guardian as "a restlessly zany sequence of songs and thumbnail sketches," and was nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award. It was also listed as one of the "stand-out shows of the Edinburgh Fringe" by Rolling Stone, which praised its "whiplash-inducing ", and fusing of "musical interludes with audience participation." Chortle remarked that Glanc had "very much found his audience recently." Part of the show was featured on Channel 4 Comedy Playground.
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