Last Things First: Wolves of Glendale
Episode #409
Tenacious D. Flight of the Conchords. The Lonely Island. We have plenty of examples of goofy guys getting together and making mirthy music. Where do the Wolves of Glendale fit in? Eric Jackowitz and Ethan Edenburg both came out of South Florida rock bands, and after performing for the Todd Glass podcast, formed a comedy band called The Cooties who were New Faces at Montreal’s Just For Laughs in 2017 and performed on Conan before fizzling out. Eric and Ethan then added Tom McGovern, a former dueling piano player from New York City who performed on the 2021 season finale of American Idol. The trio formed Wolves of Glendale, who already featured in the 2022 Netflix Is A Joke: The Festival. They met up with me before a gig at El Cid in Los Angeles to talk about where they’ve been and where they’re heading next.
Here they were in May helping to kick off Netflix Is A Joke: The Festival in Los Angeles:
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So what is the thing that binds you all together? Is it Todd Glass?
Ethan and Eric: No, I wish!
I feel like Todd Glass is the origin story for all of this.
Ethan: I will say when Eric and I first moved to LA, we played on Todd Glass's podcast a few times. And that was a wild time, really fun.
Eric: He was sort of our bridge into comedy from straightforward music. We had always done comedy, but he was the first like, real professional that lent out a hand and was like, ‘Come on my podcast. You guys are cool.’ We were his house band.
Ethan: And he's like, ‘You guys are funny.’ We're like, wow, really? We can be funny, too?