ComingSoon Senior Editor Spencer Legacy spoke with Letterkenny star K. Trevor Wilson about the final season of the beloved Canadian comedy series. The actor discussed his journey with the show and its conclusion. The final season is now streaming on Hulu.
“The residents of Letterkenny belong to one of three groups: the Hicks, the Skids, and the Hockey Players, who are constantly feuding over seemingly trivial matters that often end with someone getting their ass kicked,” reads the new season’s synopsis. “In Season 12, the small town contends with a comedy night at Modean’s, a country music hit, the Degens’ bad influence, a new nightclub, and an encore at the Ag Hall. And that’s just for starters.”
Spencer Legacy: Dan’s been there right at the produce stand right from the beginning. How do you feel about this whole journey coming to an end now?
K. Trevor Wilson: You know, it was bittersweet. It was definitely not my choice. I still thought we had some stories to tell, but it was the decision made for me, not by me. I definitely miss pulling on those overalls. There was a time when I didn’t think I was ever going to miss pulling on the overalls. [Laughs]. But definitely, not going to summer camp this year [and] not seeing all my pals has been a definite change. It was quite the journey. When I auditioned for Letterkenny, I was living on a couch. Now I’m sitting in the basement of the house I own. So, it’s been a long journey for Dan. It’s been a long journey for K. Trev, and I’m not happy to see it end, but I’m happy where I am.
The comedy club episode’s a lot of fun, and Dan gets to do an observational comedy routine. What was performing and filming that like?
Well, I mean, stand-up has been my bread and butter for a long, long time before Letterkenny. When they first came back with the talent show episode that they wanted Squirrely Dan to do standup, the whole idea of doing an impression of bad stand-up has always been fun for me. Dan has always made comments, [so] this was really easy. More people should just do this. [Laughs]. I always have fun poking fun at my own genre. It’s a good time. It’s tongue-in-cheek, and it’s silly, and it’s absolutely not what you’re going to get if you come to see my actual standup show.
The core storyline of this last season is really on the enduring friendship of those main four people. Did you think back at the beginning that you’d be working with those three for so long and making such a legacy here?
I was a fan of the show when it was an internet show. I was a fan of Letterkenny problems. When the opportunity came to audition for it, I was really excited. I really threw myself into the audition in hopes of getting to do this job. When we shot Season 1, we had no idea what was going to come of this. We were the first Canadian show without a channel — the first Canadian show created for a Canadian-only streaming service. And while we were filming the show, the first Canadian streaming service folded.
All the writing was on the wall for this to just be a one-and-done. Here we are eight years later, celebrating 12 seasons of a show that has been a dynamo, that has exceeded everyone’s expectations and succeeded in ways no one ever thought possible in this country. So it’s been truly eye-opening and a truly wonderful experience. It just goes to show you if you’ve got a good idea, you work hard, and you surround yourself with the right people, you can really make magic happen.
Looking back on all the seasons, do you have a favorite moment that springs out?
There’s too many to really pinpoint. The one I’ve been quoting a lot is from the very first season — the very first time I ad-libbed anything on the show. We were sitting in MoDean’s and I ad-libbed the line, “Here’s a tip: it’s really hard to get tuna out of your dick hole.” And that made the cameraman, Billy Buttery, laugh so hard that he shook the camera. [Laughs]. He had to reshoot the whole scene because of that.
That sort of set the bar — if you can make the cameraman shake the camera, that’s as funny as you can get on Letterkenny. It showed me that I could relax a bit because I was exactly where I was supposed to be doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing.
