{{short description|Australian comedian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox comedian | name = Josh Glanc | image = Josh Glanc at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe-08 (cropped).jpg | caption = Glanc at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe | years_active = 2017–present | website = {{URL|joshglanc.com}} |genre=Surreal comedy}} '''Josh Glanc''' ({{IPAc-en|ɡ|l|æ|n|s}} {{respell|GLANCE}}<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Morgan |first=Joyce |date=2023-07-08 |title=Musical follows in footsteps of Hamilton and Six, with modern take on history |url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/theatre/this-madcap-sketch-show-has-smash-mouth-cyclists-and-a-mario-moustache-20230705-p5dlvb.html |access-date=2025-02-19 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}</ref>) is an Australian comedian. Known for his surreal<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Collins |first=Simon |date=2019-01-28 |title=Legal eagle turned comic Josh Glanc gives Fringe World second chance |url=https://thewest.com.au/entertainment/fringe-festival/legal-eagle-turned-comic-josh-glanc-gives-fringe-world-second-chance-ng-b881045631z |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=The West Australian |language=en}}</ref> sketch and musical comedy, he has won a Best Comedy Show award at Fringe World and been nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award.
== Early life == Glanc's father, an accountant, was the eldest son of two Holocaust survivors who moved to Melbourne.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=Glanc |first=Josh |date=2024-08-23 |title='For a long time I felt conflicted' - Josh Glanc on giving up a law career for comedy |url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/edinburgh-festivals/edinburgh-fringe-comedy-josh-glanc-family-man-4754053 |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=The Scotsman |language=en}}</ref> In grade 7, Glanc says he made his own "dirty magazine", ''Ahooga Magazine'', made from photocopied pages of ''Playboy'', and sold them at school.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Glanc |first=Josh |date=2022-04-27 |title=Josh Glanc: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet) |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/apr/28/josh-glanc-the-10-funniest-things-i-have-ever-seen-on-the-internet |access-date=2025-02-19 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> He has said that he "performed a lot as a kid", but stopped doing so for 10 years after reaching university.<ref name=":6" />
== Career == Glanc initially spent five years in corporate law, working toward becoming a barrister. A friend from his school encouraged him to audition for a sketch comedy show featuring Melbourne lawyers, and he then wrote and performed his show ''99 Schnitzels (But a Veal Ain’t One)'',<ref name=":6" /> a Sacha Baron Cohen tribute show,<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Boden |first=Justin |date=2024-02-07 |title=Interview: Josh Glanc |url=https://www.festmag.com/adelaide/comedy/interview-josh-glanc |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=Fest Magazine}}</ref> at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2015.<ref name=":6" /> He left his law career in 2016 to focus on comedy, and made appearances at the Adelaide Fringe from that year onward.<ref name=":5" /> He trained five months at the John Bolton Theatre School in Melbourne, and with Philippe Gaulier in France; he has jokingly described Gaulier as a "larger-than-life clown teacher who abuses you for a month in order to make you funny".<ref name=":6" />
''Manfül'', his 2017 show, featured Glanc playing Dicky Rosenthal, a narcissistic bodybuilder character,<ref name=":1" /> hosting an information seminar.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Swan |first=Chris |title=Josh Glanc shines in the must-see 'Manfül' |url=https://beat.com.au/josh-glanc-shines-in-the-must-see-manful/ |access-date=2025-02-19 |website=Beat |date=5 April 2017 }}</ref> It appeared at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Bennett |first=Steve |title=Josh Glanc: Manful : Reviews 2017 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide |url=https://www.chortle.co.uk/review/2017/04/15/36180/josh_glanc:_manful |access-date=2025-02-19 |website=Chortle |language=en}}</ref> At Fringe World 2017, Glanc won its Best Comedy Show award for ''99 Schnitzels''.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last= |date=2020-01-30 |title=Review {{!}} Josh Glanc: Glance you for having me |url=https://www.outinperth.com/review-josh-glanc-glance-you-for-having-me/ |access-date=2025-02-19 |website=OutInPerth |language=en-AU}}</ref><ref name=":6" /> 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,<ref name=":6" /> and moved to London in 2019.<ref name=":5" /> ''Chamedian'' won Best Comedy at Fringe World 2018 and was the only comedy nominated for ''The West Australian'' Arts Editors Award.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McKeough |first=Betty |date=2019-02-03 |title=Chamedian on top of his game |url=https://thewest.com.au/entertainment/fringe-festival/chamedian-on-top-of-his-game-ng-b881093390z |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=The West Australian |language=en}}</ref>
In 2020, Glanc returned with his "more story based"<ref name=":6" /> show ''Glance you for having me'',<ref name=":2" /> described by ''Fest Magazine'' as a "lounge-music autobiography".<ref name=":5" /> After spending the COVID-19 lockdown in London, he moved back to Australia in February 2021,<ref name=":5" /> ultimately being subject to 273 total days in lockdown in both London and Melbourne.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-01-07 |title=Fringe World top 25: the wild, the weird and the wonderful plus the 10 best kids' shows |url=https://thewest.com.au/entertainment/fringe-festival/fringe-world-top-25-the-wild-the-weird-and-the-wonderful-plus-the-10-best-kids-shows-c-5166998 |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=The West Australian |language=en}}</ref> His "greatest hits" show, ''Collections 2023'', featured Glanc lip syncing to Smash Mouth's "Walkin’ on the Sun" and other sketches.<ref name=":0" /> 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.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Linton |first=Deborah |date=2023-12-05 |title='Humour is our biggest cultural export': behind the scenes at a groundbreaking Jewish panto |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/dec/05/jewish-pantomime-red-riding-hood-big-bad-pig |access-date=2025-02-19 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Maier |first=John |date=2023-12-08 |title='Being silly and joyful and Jewish feels extra special right now' |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/red-riding-hood-and-the-big-bad-pig-britains-first-jewish-pantomime-r7fpx63gv |access-date=2025-02-19 |website=The Times |language=en}}</ref>
''Vrooom Vrooom'', Glanc's 2024 sketch comedy special, was released through 800 Pound Gorilla after being filmed at Stupid Old Studios in Melbourne.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Martin |first=Clare |date=2024-07-19 |title=Josh Glanc Captures the Fringe Spirit in New Special Vrooom Vrooom |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/comedy/josh-glanc/josh-glanc-special-vrooom-vrooom-review |access-date=2025-02-19 |website=Paste |language=en-US}}</ref> The same year, he debuted his shows ''Collections 2024<ref name=":5" />'' 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.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wiegand |first=Chris |date=2024-08-23 |title=Josh Glanc: Family Man review – fun and games with an avuncular oddball |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/aug/23/josh-glanc-family-man-review-monkey-barrel-edinburgh |access-date=2025-02-19 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> It was also listed as one of the "stand-out shows of the Edinburgh Fringe" by ''Rolling Stone'', which praised its "whiplash-inducing segues", and fusing of "musical interludes with audience participation."<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Choudry |first=Nooruddean |date=2024-08-27 |title=The 12 stand-out shows of the Edinburgh Fringe 2024 |url=https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/culture/features/the-12-stand-out-shows-of-the-edinburgh-fringe-2024-42514/https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/culture/features/the-12-stand-out-shows-of-the-edinburgh-fringe-2024-42514/ |access-date=2025-02-24 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-GB}}</ref> ''Chortle'' remarked that Glanc had "very much found his audience recently."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harding |first=Tim |title=Josh Glanc: Family Man : Reviews 2024 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide |url=https://www.chortle.co.uk/review/2024/08/21/56435/josh_glanc:_family_man |access-date=2025-02-19 |website=Chortle |language=en}}</ref> Part of the show was featured on ''Channel 4 Comedy Playground''.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Family Man from Josh Glanc - Channel 4 Comedy Playground |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/online/videos/26795/family-man-from-josh-glanc-channel-4-comedy-playground/ |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=British Comedy Guide |language=en}}</ref>
== Personal life == Glanc is Jewish, and was brought up in Melbourne's Jewish community. He states that he "drifted away from [his] Jewishness in [his] teens, though in late 2023 began a "reimmersion" in this identity.<ref name=":3" /> Due to his Polish heritage, he has a European passport.<ref name=":6" /> Glanc's father died around 2014.<ref name=":4" />
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== External links == *{{Official website|joshglanc.com}}
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