When Connor Wood, better known to the internet as Fibula, started posting chaotic rants from his bedroom during quarantine, he wasn’t chasing a comedy career. He was unemployed, unfiltered, and unknowingly building an audience that would follow him from TikTok scrolls to sold-out theaters. Now, with his Fibs and Friends tour crossing continents and his podcast Brooke and Connor Make a Podcast redefining modern banter, Wood talks about the highs, the hangovers, and why he still hasn’t hit that “full-circle moment” everyone keeps asking about.

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So you started your comedy career posting rants during quarantine. Unemployed, unhinged, and now you’re internationally touring. What’s been the biggest full circle moment from that journey?

Full circle moment. Um, I don’t know, I don’t think I’ve had a full circle moment. Maybe it’ll happen soon. I haven’t completed any circles yet, I guess. But that’s like something to look forward to. I would say the closest thing to a full circle, career-wise, is that the people I’m hanging out with a lot now are people that when I worked in tech, I would be messaging and emailing their teams to try to get them to respond, and no one would ever reply to me. And now we’re just all chilling. We’ll see what happens but…

Your Fibs and Friends tour sold out 70-plus shows. How has life on the road changed your perspective on performing and maybe even friendships?

Life on the road changed my perspective on friendships… It makes me feel like I need to see my friends immediately. My friends now are like the Hilton Garden Inn and Suites front desk staff. I just spend a lot of time in hotels, so the Sweet Life of Zack and Cody sounded so sick, but then when you do it, it’s like I actually want to be in my house, you know? In terms of performing, it’s fun to see how universal some of the comedy is. For a while I was writing jokes for individual cities, but then I decided to try a blanket thing and engage with the people more. And that’s been fun.

Who’s been your favorite friend to perform with so far, and why is Maggie Winters not allowed to hear your real answer?

Maggie Winters is the OG friend. She has been on every tour stop since I started bringing people along. She’s a shoo-in, obviously. But everyone that’s come on and traveled with me—I’ve been like, “This is so cool that they are able to pack up and come with me on the road.” So, obviously Maggie, but everyone that’s come is special. It means a lot.

You and Brooke have such chemistry on Brooke and Connor Make a Podcast. What makes your creative partnership work so well?

Probably we have nothing in common. So, we’re always learning a lot from each other. We can have these conversations that take enough time to have a podcast. It’s a lot of learning moments. I think like I’ll tell her something, she’s like, “I have no idea what you’re talking about,” and I’ll walk her through it. She walks me through a lot.

You’ve joked about being the unemployed friend. How do you fulfill that sacred duty?

I fulfill that by keeping people very much in the loop with things that employed people aren’t in the loop with, like Group Seven. That’s my duty to be in the loop. I had someone text me yesterday like, “What’s Group Seven?” I go, “Okay, I’ll walk you through that.” And then they go to their office and they have things to talk about with their co-workers that they hate.

Where do you think you’d be today if you actually had a job during COVID?

I don’t know where I would be. Before I was fired from my last job, there was a time when my boss asked me to share my screen, and I shared my screen. There were like 17 LinkedIn tabs open on the screen with the presentation as the 18th tab, because I was looking for another job. I truly can’t answer where I would be because I don’t know which of those 17 jobs or if it was the 18th or 19th that I would have ended up at, but I wouldn’t have been there.

Slay or Nay,’ Canadian edition. Blue Jays making the World Series.

Slay. Same day as my show and same time. Nay.

Poutine for breakfast.

If I was really hung over, that sounds awesome. I like somewhere in the middle.

Saying sorry after someone bumps into you.

That’s slay. That’s very Canadian, I feel like.

Niagara Falls Couple Photoshoots.

Slay. I think that’s cool. I’ve only been one time. I think like on the boat, down there with your yellow thing on.

You’re often called the Voice of a TikTok-Addled Generation. How does that title sit with you?

TikTok what generation? I’ve never heard that. I’m very uncomfortable with that. I don’t want to be the voice of the generation.

You’ve said nights are the hardest. What did you mean by that?

That was something that someone else had said, and I overheard them say it. And Brooke was also in the room, and I was trying not to laugh because the context in which it was said was not that serious at all. I was like, “Oh, that is something that I’m going to adopt into my day-to-day.” It really means nothing.

Do you and Max have full conversations or is it more of like a telepathic understanding at this point?

He’s like everyone’s like, “My dog’s human.” He freaks out. I think he sees ghosts or he’s very tuned into some other frequency that I’m not. It makes me uncomfortable. I always thought that I’d want to speak to a dog, and I actually don’t want to. I was like, “If you do it, can you just do it in the other room?”

If you could build your dream podcast rotation, you, Brooke, three other people dead or alive. Who’s at the table?

Um, Larry David, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Caleb Hearon.

What’s one thing your fans would be shocked to know about you?

I don’t think there’s anything that they don’t know. The weirdest part is like, I don’t know what I could… My address, maybe?

Finally, what’s next for Fibula? Any new fibs you can tease?

No, like I have none. I need to start lying or start working on a secret project, or at least tell people I’m starting to work on a secret project so that I can have something to share. Right now, a lot more comedy is on the horizon, and then things that I’m legally not able to disclose. I would kill to break an NDA with you right now, but I just can’t. But, a lot more stand-up.