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#22 Glenn Rockowitz - SNL a Comedic Life
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Glenn Rockowitz is an American writer, filmmaker, comedian and voice actor. His love of comedy started when he joined the infamous improve group "The Second City in Chicago". The group has a long standing history where many comics got their start, including: Steve Carrel, Bill Murray, Stephen Colbert and Tina Fey just to name a few.
After initiating his career in comedy at Second City, Glenn was offered a role as a writer for SNL and shortly thereafter he founded a nonprofit AIDS and cancer charity in NYC, known as The Best Medicine Group—an organization that brought live comedy shows into the homes of terminally-ill patients throughout the metropolitan New York area and was named New Yorker of the Week by NY1 five years after he founded the group.
At 28 years old, Glenn's world was turned upside down when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given only 3 months to live. In his memoir Rodeo In Joliet, he shares his story of being diagnosed just before the birth of his only child. In his second book, a companion memoir to his first, Cotton Teeth, Glenn writes about what it was like facing terminal cancer alongside his father; both of whom were diagnosed a week apart.
Today, Glenn serves as the Director of Clinical Advocacy for the Health Care Rights Initiative in Seattle. He works as a voice actor - you might have heard him in commercials for Xbox, Alaska Airlines, T-Mobile, Expedia, Quiznos or the Seattle Seahawks but most importantly, Glenn truly enjoys every minute of every day, because he understands more than most that "none of us have any idea if we will have 'this' moment again" and he takes every opportunity to soak each moment in.
You can find Glenn's books on Amazon and watch him share his story on NPR's The Moth | Radio Hour at https://themoth.org/storytellers/glenn-rockowitz
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