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WHAT’S Y OUR F OR TE?

BRETT F OR TE // YUK YUK’S CALGAR Y C OMEDY CL UB

This is our first time interviewing you. Tell us a something more reasonable: the NBA. From 12
little about yourself. to 16 I played one-on-one games against adults
Alright, I’ll give you my online profile: Brett. 6’1”. at a school playground—I was good. But I guess
Really great guy. to make the NBA you need to be good at five-
on-five and I don’t really like playing with other
Why do your friends describe you as the kid that people, so I let that go. I’m better when it’s just
was born in the ‘90s who should have grown up me, hence standup.
in the ‘80s?
Yeah, I was born in ’92, but I grew up in the 80s Were you a funny child?
because my parents refused to adapt. It’s kind Yeah, I always had my mom laughing, with
of like when the youngest kid in the house only silly stuff like impersonating a bug hitting the
gets the outdated hand-me-downs from the windshield, but that corny stuff wouldn’t work on
older siblings, except I was an only child. An only my dad—in fact, I think it bothered him. The only
child that watched Married With Children and way to get my dad to laugh was to impersonate
had a pet rock. An only child whose 245-pound, and roast him. And look! Now I host a Roast
bodybuilding father would pick him up from Battle show at the Calgary Yuk Yuk’s every
school wearing aviators and a little pair of daisy month. Thanks, Dad.
dukes. He had the body of a Dallas Cowboy
football player but chose to dress like one of the At school I was in the top five for sure. There
cheerleaders. He also had long, feathered hair were other funny guys, like Mike O’Keefe, who is
like He-Man, which is another show I shouldn’t now an actor, and Aidan Wilson, who now works
be referencing. in film in Vancouver. We all shared the same
drama class, and that’s where I remember one of
What did you want to be when you were a kid? my first big laughs. It was grade seven and Ms.
NHL goaltender, like every other Canadian boy. Henderson, who I still speak with today, told me
I was nice with the baseball-glove hand and I to hold the pose of a grumpy substitute teacher.
strategically wore a super baggy jersey that I went and faced the white board, took a moment
covered the five-hole. The NHL hadn’t seen to think, and when I turned around and struck my
MED-SUM301 $275 anything like me before. But then I got hit in pose, the room popped. I’ve been recreating that
the eye with a puck and focused my career on feeling ever since.

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