CANORA - With seeding season fast approaching, the Canora Ag Society hosted it’s popular Farmers Night Out event on April 12 at the Sylvia Fedoruk Centre. The venue was filled with farmers and non-farmers alike for an evening of fun.
After a tasty meal, comedian Tim Nutt earned plenty of laughs, and The Crawdaddys provided the music for the evening, with everything from country to rock to polkas.
Nutt decided to familiarize himself with Canora a bit before hitting the stage, and discovered it’s quite a bit smaller than Vancouver, where he presently resides.
“I drove around your town, so I’m assuming this is everyone.”
After greeting the audience, Nutt couldn’t help talking about his last name.
“It’s a great name for a comedian,” he said. “I get introduced as MacNutt a lot, but believe it or not, Nutt is my real name. It’s an awful name for a kid. Being slang for stupid and also for testicles, even the slow kids can make fun of you.”
He admitted to 小蓝视频 in a bit of a bad mood.
“A kid at the gas station in Yorkton called me old. I’m 55 and there’s no way I’ll ever get to be 110.
“I had a physical the other day and the doctor told me to quit drinking, smoking and eating cheeseburgers, or I’ll die 10 years younger than a person should, so I said, ‘That seems like a reasonable trade-off.’
“It’s like my life is a golf course. I’m on the 17th hole, one more Par 3 and then I’m done.”
Nut told the Famers Night Out audience that he has a degree in English, which can be both a blessing and a curse.
“Young people, they talk near me and it drives me around the bend. They use words I know the meaning of, but they say stuff like, ‘This coffee is fire,’ and I’m thinking, ‘Hot’ is the word you’re looking for. If your coffee is hot, you might want to blow on it.”
When a heckler started giving him some grief, Nutt quickly replied and shut down that exchange in a hurry. “This is a small town, I’ll give you a nickname and you’ll have it for a long time.”
Nutt conceded that there are certain things that make Canada unique.
“I believe they legalized marijuana to keep people watching The Beachcombers. That’s really not a good show. There’s an old Greek fellow and his First Nations buddy. They’ve got a boat and they go get the logs, that’s pretty much the whole show.”
Nutt went on to share his dad’s favourite joke, “The world ends at midnight, 12:30 in Newfoundland.”
From there, he moved on to the topic of GPS.
“How did we ever function without GPS, it’s the only reason I’m even here in Canora tonight. It’s been 17 years since I’ve had an awkward conversation with a guy at a gas station to ask for directions.
“And then there’s our phones. I used to know a lot of stuff in my brain, now I’ve moved it all over to my phone.
“In 2025, the only thing you really need to know is ‘Where is my phone?’ But now they have a thing online called ‘Find your phone.’ Of course, all you need is your password.”
Some married couples maintain that their partner is also their best friend, but Nutt did his best to blow a hole in that idea.
“I have a best friend and I have my spouse – I’m a strong believer in the separation of church and state. That’s a lot of pressure if you expect one person to be both of those things.”
He went on to make an observation about how a relationship changes from when a couple first starts dating, and they hang on each other’s every word, to after they’ve been married for a while. “’Do you not have a best friend you can talk to about this?’ After seven or eight years, you’re kind of done listening to their stories.”
In observing the world around him, Nutt noticed that many people in urban areas are entertaining the possibility of buying a horse.
“If you’re thinking about buying a horse, here’s a test,” he said. “Take $1,000 in cash and burn it. If you’re ready to do that every month, then you’re ready to buy a horse.”
Thankfully, spring was on it’s way when Nutt was in Canora, but he recalled travelling to Prince Albert a while back in the middle of a blizzard.
“One of two things happened. Either I was driving in a field, or there were cows on the road.”
Experience is a great teacher, and Nutt has observed at least one benefit of getting older.
“After 50, you can be grouchy and people tolerate you.”
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