Ol' Ugly - Country Comedian
Entertains With Good Clean Comedy... Well, Sometimes Naughty!
Ol' Ugly (John Glawson) is one of those Maritimers from Tufts Cove, Nova Scotia, who headed west after trying life in Ontario. He's a country boy brought up by his mother, as well as an aunt and uncle who had a wild sense of humour. They looked upon the hardships of their journey through life by trying to find the funny side of things.
Ol' Ugly moved to Alberta in 1973 where he worked in a seed plant. He found those souls in the farming and ranching community with the same "back porch" sense of humour as he had been brought up with. He started writing humorous tales and was soon reading them for the writers in Calgary and area. This soon just slipped into tall tale telling and joking on stage.
About 1989 people started asking him to come out to the cowboy festivals and other agricultural functions. For the last 16 years the number of shows he has done has accelerated as the word gets out about his wild stories of his older brother, Blue, his Aunt Tilley, and her boyfriend Creaky Olsen.
