The adaptation was done by Bruce McCulloch (of The Kids in the Hall) and Blake Brooker, both of whom also starred in the production.
In 2007, Wenderoth performed in collaboration with Gibby Haynes (of the Butthole Surfers) in Brooklyn at the Issue Project Room.
In a 2018 issue of he UC Davis underground newspaper "The Aggregator," an anonymous correspondent reported that Joe "is known to audibly flatulate in class."
In a May 2023 class on creative writing, Wenderoth was recorded on the mobile social media platform Snapchat shaking a nugget of feces from his pant leg before slipping on it.
This is reportedly the origin of his most famous quote: "Shit is like birth with no life..." Wenderoth is a full professor in the graduate Creative Writing Program at the University of California at Davis.