Brent Butt

Born in the small farming town of Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Canada (population 3000) as the youngest of seven children. Brent began doing stand-up comedy in 1988. He was soon headlining top clubs and theatres across Canada, and has been selected to represent his country at both the Just For Laughs International Comedy Festival, and the World Comedy Tour in Australia. He has appeared in numerous Canadian television programs, and a few U.S. shows (The X-Files (1993), Millennium (1996), Becoming Dick (2000)). He was named 'Best Male Standup' at the 2001 Canadian Comedy Awards. He lives and works out of Vancouver, on Canada's West Coast, and is concentrating more on acting.

Works

Corner Gas: The Movie

It’s been a few years, and there’s still not a lot going on 40 kilometers from nowhere. But that’s all about to change as the fine folks of Dog River, Saskatchewan face their biggest crisis ever. Brent and the gang discover that the town’s been badly mismanaged, leaving residents with little choice but to pack up and leave. As residents make one last rally to save Dog River as they know it, they discover a devious plan by a corporate chain that would change life for Dog Riverites forever.

Release Date: 2014-12-03

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Character: Brent Leroy

Vote Count: 42

No Clue

When a beautiful and mysterious woman bursts into the office of Leo Falloon, desperate to find her missing brother, it's just another day in the life of a hard-boiled detective. The problem is, Leo's not a detective. He sells novelty advertising across the hall from the detective, but how hard can it be?

Release Date: 2014-03-07

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Character: Leo Falloon

Vote Count: 24

Quarantine Fling

NATE couldn't be more excited for the mandatory lock-down that was just announced; the government is going to pay him to just hang out at home and play video games? Count him in. However, when his overbearing mother, SYLVIE, and his aloof father, BILL, insist Nate shouldn't spend the pandemic alone, Nate has only one option - create a fake live-in girlfriend using all varieties of social media tricks of course.

Character: Bill

Corner Gas Animated

It's been a few years, and there's still not a lot going on in Dog River, 40 kilometres from nowhere. But that's all about to change.

Release Date: 2018-04-02

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Brent Leroy (voice)

Episode Count: 19

Vote Count: 20

Hiccups

Millie Upton is a successful children's author who's prone to flying off the handle. Stan Dirko is Millie's less-than-qualified life-coach. Together, they work through Millie's...err...unpredictable spasms. It's a case of the lost leading the lost, with the best of intentions and very little chance of success.

Release Date: 2010-03-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Stan Dirko

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 5

Robson Arms

Robson Arms follows the lives of the tenants in a once-grand low-rise in Vancouver's eclectic West End. The building is home to an unlikely collection of characters who live under one roof, yet occupy different worlds. One thing is certain, you'll never see your neighbours the same way again.

Release Date: 2005-06-17

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 5

Beyond Corner Gas: Tales from Dog River

Release Date: 2005-01-01

Character: Self

Corner Gas

Following the adventures of a bunch of nobodies who get up to a whole lot of nothing in the fictional prairie town of Dog River, Saskatchewan, Corner Gas focuses on the life (or lack thereof) of Brent LeRoy, proprietor of a gas station that is the only stop for miles around and a hub of action on the Prairies.

Release Date: 2004-01-22

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Brent Leroy

Episode Count: 27

Vote Count: 48

Duets

Duets is a road-trip comedy which revolves around the little known world of karaoke and the whimsical characters who inhabit it. All roads lead to Omaha, site of a national karaoke competition where this motley group of singers and stars come together for a blow-out sing-off.

Release Date: 2000-09-09

Character: Kansas Motel Clerk

Vote Count: 144

Screwed

A chauffeur kidnaps his rich boss's dog to hold it for ransom, but when she accidentally gets the dog back, she thinks that it's the chauffeur who's been kidnapped.

Release Date: 2000-05-12

Character: Buddy

Vote Count: 95

Dudley Do-Right

Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his old rival, Snidely Whiplash, comes up with a plot to buy all the property in town, then start a phony gold rush by seeding the river with gold nuggets.

Release Date: 1999-08-27

Character: A Bad Guy in Back

Vote Count: 189

The X-Files

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

Release Date: 1993-09-10

Character: Coroner

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3163

The Kids in the Hall

The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy group formed in 1984, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson.

Release Date: 1989-10-24

Character: Barfly

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 85