Josh Glanc

Josh Glanc is an Australian comedian. Known for his surreal 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. In grade 7, Glanc says he made his own "dirty magazine", Ahooga Magazine, made from photocopied pages of Playboy, and sold them at school. He has said that he "performed a lot as a kid", but stopped doing so for 10 years after reaching university. at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2015. It appeared at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. At Fringe World 2017, Glanc won its Best Comedy Show award for 99 Schnitzels.

In 2020, Glanc returned with his "more story based" His "greatest hits" show, Collections 2023, featured Glanc lip syncing to Smash Mouth's "Walkin’ on the Sun" and other sketches.

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 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." Chortle remarked that Glanc had "very much found his audience recently." Part of the show was featured on Channel 4 Comedy Playground''.

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. Due to his Polish heritage, he has a European passport. Glanc's father died around 2014.