Brent Butt
Thursday, January 15, 2004
Yukon Arts Centre, 8pm
Tickets $22

Brent Butt was named ‘Standup Comedian Of The Year’ at the 2001 Canadian Comedy Awards. He’s earned a Gemini Nomination for Best Comedy Performance. He has been seen on A&E, HBO, CBC, CTV, Global and appeared on Jay Leno. He is performance beside the country’s most noted comedic minds on the CBC’s All-Star Comedy Homecoming 50th Anniversary Special secured his reputation as one of Canada’s top comics.

Brent honed his comedic storytelling prowess at the local coffee shop, where he would sit around with friends – literally for hours at a time – discussing everything from world domination to the most comfortable kind of socks. Brent insists "Coffee shop conversation was a great way to learn comedy. It’s relaxed and conversational and the jokes build naturally without forcing them."

When he was 20 a comedy club opened in Saskatoon near his hometown of Tisdale, Saskatchewan, so he moved to the big city to pursue his fortune. Within four months of his first appearance, he was offered a tour a tour. After a year he was headlining in Toronto, and after only 4 years he was showcased in his own gala performance at the world’s largest international comedy festival – Montreal’s Just For Laughs.

Brent has since become a regular at Just For Laughs. He has appeared on numerous national and international television programs including his own specials CTV’s Bedtime with Brent Butt, and a special in the Comedy Network's Comedy Now series titled Funnypants. This earned him a Gemini Nomination for ‘Best Comedy Performance.’

In January 2004, Brent will star in Corner Gas on CTV, a comedy television series that he created, wrote and produced. Now living in Vancouver, Brent continues to tour the country performing live. "I look at it as just having coffee," Butt says, "Only now it’s with hundreds of people at a time."