Glenn Wool in Let Your Hands Go

First published on 16 Mar 2010. Updated on 5 Apr 2011.

What are you currently working on? I went to LA for a pilot season, but it is yet to be green lit: it is only yellow lit right now, but it will be something in New Zealand. Hopefully in a month from now I will be going to shoot. But it is not for sure so I won't mention any of the ins and outs of it in case it doesn't happen.

 

Where do you get your material? It's usually a mixture between personal and political commentary. I try to mix the two and use one to inform the other. And if you just live your life little funny things will happen to you.

For example... Like I was just in London, but I don't live there anymore, so I needed to get a hotel and I just put into lastminute.com: hotels in London, and this hotel that I live right beside when I lived there had really cheap rates, and it was a nice hotel I'd seen it before and I always thought if I didn't live right beside it, that is the kind of place I wouldn't mind staying. I go to book it in, and I see that there are all these horrible costumer reviews for the hotel and I thought what could possibly be wrong with it, it looks fine. Then I read them and they were all saying that, "It's sooo loud, I don't know what's wrong with the neighbour, but he is always up and drunk and listening to music and I called the reception and they said they couldn't do anything about it because it wasn't their hotel."

What are your thoughts on improving during your show? I can improv with the crowd, but I usually wait for someone to be up to something, like on a phone or talking loudly. Because I think at the heart of audience interaction there's bullying going on. It's not a fair situation for the person in the crowd, I mean you've got a microphone, they don't.

How did you get into comedy? Well, I have always been funny.

Is that how it works for most comedians? You'd be surprised nowadays how that is not the motivation for a new stand up. You ask them about that and they will give you five answers before humour ever comes up.

What is your favourite place to do stand up? Uh, SYDNEY AUSTRALIA would be the answer to that, and all venues connected with the Sydney Comedy Store and the Sydney Comedy Festival. It's really weird they just have all the best venues in the world.

What are you looking forward to the most in the Sydney Comedy Festival? Doing the new show with Heath [Satan's Workshop]. It strikes moments of elation and terror in equal measures. Christy LaPlante