HUGE A novel

by Butt, Brent

• ISBN13: 9780385688321
• ISBN10: 0385688326
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780385688338
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-10-03
• Publisher: Doubleday Canada

Summary

AN INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The award-winning screenwriter and International Emmy nominee is now a literary success with this unexpectedly dark and twisted thriller.

It's 1994, and three stand-up comedians have embarked on a tour of  smaller communities across a remote stretch of rural countryside. Dale is a forty-something comic from Chicago who's on the back half of a mediocre career and thinking about quitting the business. Rynn is a twenty-something fast-rising comedy star from Dublin with a big Hollywood break on her horizon. The third performer is a local act, a late addition to the bill who has agreed to open the shows and do all the driving. He goes by the name Hobie Huge, and he is, indeed, enormous. His comedic ability, however, is not. He's weirdly eager, annoyingly enthusiastic and brutally unfunny. All of which wouldn't be so bad . . . if the brutality ended there. By the time Dale and Rynn realize Hobie's true talents and disturbing motivation, it may be too late—and their tour becomes less about getting laughs and more about getting off the road alive.

Author Biography

BRENT BUTT was born in in Tisdale, Saskatchewan, and now lives in Vancouver.

Butt briefly attended Ontario's Sheridan College before returning to his home in Saskatchewan. While working as a drywaller, Butt and a friend started a publishing company, Windwolf Graphics. His comic, Existing Earth, was nominated for an Eagle Award, but only two issues appeared before the money ran out.

In February 1988, Butt performed stand-up comedy for the first time at an amateur night at a Saskatoon comedy club. He is now considered one of the funniest people in Canada, with a career in stand-up comedy that stretches into five decades, including numerous appearances at major festivals in multiple countries and being voted Best Male Stand-Up in Canada by his peers in the profession. He also created and starred in two successful sitcoms--Corner Gas ("Funniest Show on TV" as voted by TV Guide Readers, and currently showing in 60 countries) and Hiccups (multiple Leo and Writers Guild Awards). When you add in two theatrical comedy films (No Clue and Corner Gas: The Movie) and four seasons of an animated Corner Gas spinoff on TV, it may seem surprising that Brent's latest venture--literature--has taken a rather dark turn.