Brent Butt

Creator / Writer / Producer / Director

Brent Butt was born and raised in the small farming town of Tisdale, Saskatchewan.

As the youngest of seven children, one does what one can to be noticed, and at an early age Brent discovered that being funny was a good way to get and hold people's attention.

When he was 12 years old, he watched a stand-up comic on television. He immediately marched up to his mother and said "I'm going to be a comedian." She replied, "Fine, could you do it outside?"

Brent honed his comedic storytelling prowess with his friends at the local coffee shop.

They would sit around - literally for hours at a time - discussing everything from world domination, to the most comfortable kind of socks.

In high school, Brent performed stand-up comedy at a variety night, and was hooked. When he was 20, a comedy club opened up in nearby Saskatoon and Brent moved to the city to pursue a career in humour.

He moved through the ranks incredibly quickly, and within four months of his first amateur night he was offered a tour on the road.

After a year he was headlining in Toronto, and after only four years he was showcased in his own gala performance at the world's largest international comedy festival, Montreal's Just For Laughs.

Brent has been a regular on the Just For Laughs TV show, as well as other programs on A&E, HBO, CBC, CTV, Global, and The Comedy Network.

His one-hour Comedy Now! special earned him a Gemini Nomination in the category of "Best Comedy Performance". He was named "Best Male Stand-Up" at the 2001 Canadian Comedy Awards and was subsequently selected to represent his country on the World Comedy Tour in Australia.

He followed that by hosting the Just For Laughs - Asian Tour in Singapore. His invitation to appear on the CBC 50th Anniversary Special entitled All-Star Comedy Homecoming secured his reputation as one of the funniest people in the country, as he performed alongside the most noted comedic minds from the past five decades of Canadian entertainment.

Brent has made Vancouver, BC his home for the past 13 years.

He is the creator, executive producer and star of the hugely popular sitcom Corner Gas on CTV and he still tours the country performing his unique brand of conversational stand-up comedy in between seasons of filming.

"I love what I do," Brent says. "It's just like having coffee - only now it's with a thousand or so people at a time."
 

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