Joey, Joey, Joey

Last night Matt LeBlanc won the Golden Globe for best actor in a TV comedy for his work in Episodes.  Fine.  He does a good job, and no one takes these awards seriously anyway.  Discussing the role, where he plays a version of himself, he said:

My initial reaction to doing the role was that I wasn’t terribly comfortable with it. But I finally decided that I don’t mind being the brunt of the joke as long as it’s a good joke. And it is.

You hear this a lot, so let me repeat the rule (before it changes). You bear the brunt of a joke, you are the butt of a joke.  People aren't brunts, they're butts.