Episode 1031 - Brent Butt

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Even though Brent Butt grew up in rural Saskatchewan, his path to comedy is similar to American comics, except it was exclusively Canadian. He was a directionless youth who was taken in by comedy on Canadian TV, he booked gigs throughout the Canadian countryside to hone his act, he dealt with monopolistic club owners and did sets in lousy environments like curling rinks. It all led to him being the first native Canadian with a #1 comedy series in Canada, Corner Gas, which was turned into a hit movie and now a cartoon. Brent tells Marc about his journey, and why he has no regrets that he remains fairly anonymous in America. This episode is sponsored by Turo.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.8	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fuck nicks, what's happening?
0:14.8	It's Mark Marin.
0:15.8	I'm here.
0:16.8	I'm here in Canada still.
0:18.2	This is my podcast, WTF.
0:20.5	How's it going?
0:21.5	Are you alright?
0:22.8	Today, I guess in honor of me being in Canada, I'm having a Canadian comedian on, though
0:29.1	we recorded in LA Brent Butt is on the show today and that was fun.
0:33.6	I like him.
0:34.6	He's always been a nice guy and I'm glad we got to talk.
0:36.8	He's sort of a big celebrity up here in a way.
0:39.5	Well, I don't think he would admit that, but that's coming up.
0:44.5	So I have been having, again, a nice time up here just on a spiritual level.
0:49.2	If I can say that, I don't know if it's spiritual, just a part of me is relaxed up here because
0:54.4	I'm in Canada and the air is not infused with the panic and aggression that seems to be
1:02.1	the electrical current kind of like hovering over the United States of America right now.
1:07.7	It kind of dissipates at the border and you just kind of deal with life up here.
1:11.9	There's just life happening in Canada.
1:14.3	Now I am in Hamilton, Ontario, which, look, I don't want to be condescending because I'm
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