Isaac Butterfield
Australian stand-up comedian and YouTuber from Newcastle, New South Wales, who makes deliberately offensive stand-up and about three commentary videos a week.
Comedy · YouTube · Updated Oct 2, 2026
Isaac Butterfield is an Australian stand-up comedian and YouTuber from Newcastle, New South Wales, whose act is built on jokes meant to offend. His channel took off in January 2018 with a reply to a video called “10 Reasons Not To Visit Australia,” which he told the Newcastle Herald took him from 1,000 subscribers to 150,000 in three days. He now has about 2.2 million subscribers on YouTube, posts about three videos a week and tours Australia with stand-up; his site bills the 2026 tour, Armageddon, at 53 shows. The jokes have also brought a Facebook ban in 2018, a streaming special that fell through in 2019, a public rebuke from Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner in 2020 and what he calls a court case over a joke, which he says he won in 2024.
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Questions people ask
Who is Isaac Butterfield?
Isaac Butterfield is a stand-up comedian and YouTuber from Newcastle, New South Wales. His YouTube channel describes him as an “Australian comedian, YouTuber and podcaster” and has about 2.2 million subscribers and more than 2,300 videos, mostly commentary on news and internet culture. He told the Newcastle Herald in 2019 that the online persona is “a character,” “the comedy version of me.” He tours Australia with stand-up, has put the special Public Enemy on his own channel in full, and wrote a book called Better Man.
What happened to Isaac Butterfield? Why is he controversial, and was he cancelled?
He is still working: as of October 2026 he posts about three videos a week and his site lists a 53-show Australian tour called Armageddon. The “cancelled” searches trace to jokes that made the news. In 2018 Facebook banned him over a video comparing New Zealand with Australia; he called the ban “an absolute disgrace,” per Stuff. In April 2019, at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, he joked about the Holocaust and answered a Jewish audience member’s emailed complaint with a pun about ovens. He later said the email was wrong for a one-on-one exchange and declined to apologize for the joke, per Chortle. A streaming special fell through that year: he said a service he did not name wanted cuts and that he cancelled the deal, while SBS later reported that Netflix dropped it. In August 2020 SBS reported that Race Discrimination Commissioner Chin Tan condemned a joke about the 2019 Christchurch terror attack in his special Anti-Hero. His reply, in a video: “Key word is ‘joke’, it is not real, it is make-believe.” The 2023 clip and the court case are in the next answer.
Why did Isaac Butterfield go to court?
Over a joke, by his own account, and he says he won. What is public, in order: in February 2023 he posted a clip from a recent show, jokes built on stereotypes about Aboriginal people, to TikTok and Instagram, then deleted it. NITV reported the criticism on February 6, 2023, along with his reply video, in which he said the audience was laughing at the joke itself and not at Aboriginal people. NITV noted that he did not apologize. Later in 2023 his channel posted a video titled “I’m going to court over a joke..”, and in 2024 one titled “I Won The Court Case.” Those titles are his description. Nothing we have read describes a criminal charge. We have not read a court or commission record ourselves, so this entry does not name the body, the complainant or the terms of the outcome.
Is Isaac Butterfield left or right wing? Is he conservative or pro Trump?
He has not published a label for himself that we could find, and we do not assign one. What is on the record: his own site says the special Public Enemy “takes on woke culture, modern parenting, and the circus of today’s society.” In May 2019 he ran a joke campaign for prime minister, and the Newcastle Herald listed a platform that banned cyclists and vegans while backing the NDIS and a higher minimum wage. He told the same paper that year that the online persona is “a character.” We have not seen a statement from him on Donald Trump that we would cite.
Was Isaac Butterfield on Kill Tony? Is he funny?
He says he was. In late 2025 his channel posted a video titled “I WENT ON KILL TONY,” which has about 490,000 views. We have not matched it to an episode in Kill Tony’s own listings, so we do not describe the set or the panel here. As for funny, that is taste, and his is offensive on purpose; he told the Newcastle Herald, “I like offensive comedy.” The countable part is about 2.2 million YouTube subscribers and a 53-show tour.
Why did Isaac Butterfield shave his head? How tall is he?
He has not given a reason anywhere we could cite, and we do not guess about anyone’s appearance. The same goes for height: he has not published a number, so there is none here.
Is there an Isaac Butterfield Wikipedia page?
There is an Isaac Butterfield article on English Wikipedia, but it is about a different man: an American officer who served during the invasion of Quebec in the Revolutionary War. This entry is about the Australian comedian, who is not that person and had no English Wikipedia article of his own when we checked in October 2026.
How old is Isaac Butterfield? What is his real name?
He is 33; Famous Birthdays lists July 14, 1993. Isaac Butterfield is his real name, the one the Newcastle Herald and SBS print. Online he also goes by The Buttsmarn, the handle on his Instagram, Facebook and X.
Where can I watch Isaac Butterfield? How do I contact him?
YouTube @IsaacButterfield is the main channel, with a second one at @Lilbuttsmarn. He is also on Instagram, Facebook and X. Tour dates, the Public Enemy special and merch are on isaacbutterfield.com. For contact, the site has a contact form for bookings and media, and his YouTube About page lists a business email.
What is Isaac Butterfield’s net worth?
He does not publish a number and neither do we.
Who is Isaac Butterfield’s wife or dad? Who is he related to?
Not something we cover.
Who represents Isaac Butterfield?
His YouTube About page lists a business email and his site has a contact form for bookings and media; we have not seen a named agent or manager. Ames Create does not represent him; we cover him because the searches about his court case and cancellations deserve a dated, sourced answer. If that changes, this entry will say so.
Our read
Ames Create does not work with Isaac Butterfield. This is our view, from a team that works on creator brands for a living.
The format. The format is the line itself. He picks the subject an audience has been told not to laugh at and builds the joke there, on stage and in about three commentary videos a week, through a persona he has called “the comedy version of me.” For the people it works for, the dare is the product: the title says something outrageous, the video argues it for ten minutes, and the live show promises the uncut version.
Why it travels. Two engines. The first was a reply video, an Australian defending Australia to the internet, which by his own count took the channel from 1,000 subscribers to 150,000 in three days. The second is the backlash. Each news story about a joke became a video about the news story, and he told the Newcastle Herald that the 2019 coverage added 30,000 subscribers in a week.
Brand fit. Nobody cautious, right now. The catalog includes jokes about the Holocaust, a terror attack and Aboriginal people, each of which made the news, and one drew a public rebuke from the Race Discrimination Commissioner. A brand would be standing next to all of it. The business he has built reflects that: tickets, merch, specials he releases himself and a book, sold straight to his own audience. That model does not need a sponsor, which is the honest answer for most sponsors too.
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Sources: Isaac Butterfield’s YouTube and website; Famous Birthdays; Newcastle Herald, May 2019 and August 2019; Stuff, May 2018; Chortle, April 2019; JTA via the Times of Israel, May 2019; SBS, August 2020; NITV, February 2023; Wikipedia for the other Isaac Butterfield. Follower counts via Social Blade, October 2026.
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