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Celebrity Hometowns with Michelle Buteau

November 03, 2021 /

This episode features comedian Michelle Buteau discussing her experiences and stories related to her hometown, as well as her career in comedy and television.

Michelle Buteau, known for her comedy special "Welcome to Boutopia" and her book "Survival of the Thickest," joins the hosts to share her journey from New Jersey to New York City. She reflects on her early days in comedy and the impact of 9/11 on her life.

Buteau recounts her first stand-up performance just days after September 11, 2001, and how she processed the trauma through comedy. She shares her experiences working in news editing during that time and the emotional weight it carried.

The conversation touches on Buteau's thoughts on representation in the fashion industry and her experiences with crowd work during performances. The hosts and Buteau also share humorous anecdotes from their time in Winnipeg during a comedy festival.

Listeners can find Buteau's work on social media and learn about her upcoming performances, including a headlining show at the New York Comedy Festival.

TLDR

Michelle Buteau shares her journey in comedy and personal stories from her hometown, including experiences around 9/11 and her career highlights.

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You know how you love celebrities. Well, we've rounded them up for you. That's right.
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And we're going to make them tell you stories to pass the time. Right. So these are their hometowns that you guys send in all the time for our minisodes that
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have just become so fun and flirty and wild and about pretty much anything from the murder
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Just has to be true. Well, so we brought our friends along on the ride. We have a very special guest for you today.
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So exciting. You know her because her most recent comedy special, Michelle Boutot, Welcome to Boutopia,
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won the 2021 Critics' Choice Award for Best Comedy Special. Her book, Survival of the Thickest, came out last year.
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She is on all kinds of stuff. The First Wives Club, Awkwafina is Nora from Queens.
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You've seen her everywhere. I think she's still the host of The Circle, but we'll have to ask her about it.
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Ladies and gentlemen, you know her from clubs and colleges all over the country.
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It's Michelle Buteau. Yay! Hi! Hi! Hi, you guys. How are you? Very good. Now that you're here.
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Ooh! Hey, okay. Am I flirting? I don't know. Okay. I hate to watch you leave, but I love to watch you walk away. Is that how I'm so bad at flirting?
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Pull my finger, little lady. I'm sorry. Did it hurt when you fell out of heaven into what seems to be your wardrobe closet
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because you're surrounded by outfits right now? That's not the pickup line, but I mean,
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but I was trying to kind of segue it into what's going on. You're in your closet.
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Yep. This is the, yep. I'm so sorry. It felt like my internet was freezing because I am in my closet, but not spiritually and emotionally. I am out, out, out, out, out.
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I feel bad because our friend Guy Branum hit me up a couple months ago. He was like, hey, someone's doing an article on bisexual women.
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And I'm like, I am honored that you thought I was a bisexual woman. That means my allyship means something, honey.
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But no, that's right. I am a boring cisgender. Is that disappointing sometimes? It is.
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Like, I don't feel like a straight person. I feel like that's boring. And these days, it's all about representing the fluidity
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and everybody gets to be exactly what they want. And if there's anyone who is exactly
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who they want to be, I feel it is Michelle Boutot. Absolutely. I always take that as a compliment. People are like,
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oh, my friend is so in love with you and it's a girl. And I'm like, great. Yes. Add them to the pile.
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It means they have good taste. That's right. Yes. I'm doing it right. The irony that I'm actually doing your show from my closet is probably my 12 year old,
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like my seventh grade. English is my first language. Here we go. But when I was in seventh
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grade and I was like a size 12 when I was 12, I only had like three shirts that I would wear to
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whenever my Catholic school had like a street day, like you can wear your street clothes,
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civilian clothing. And I only had three shirts. And my dad's like, you don't need another shirt.
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There's no holes in these shirts. So I would end up wearing his clothes and belt it with one of his ties.
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So I love that I just have this closet now full of plus size clothing because the fashion industry has deemed me worthy of spending my money.
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Well, seriously, they finally woken up and been like, oh, that's right. Women who don wear single digit clothing would love a blouse that doesn have huge daisies all over it They dress us like clowns constantly where it like yeah that in style We the ones that need it Yes I don want to look like the big five at a safari honey
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Please help us. So wait, am I wrong that you're still hosting The Circle? Still hosting The Circle, still going strong. Three seasons are up on Netflix right now that
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you could watch. And we just got signed on for two more seasons. So it'll be five seasons of
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the circle i'm very excited yeah yeah plus like voiceover work is the bomb diggity ill nana
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oh my god we easiest best we have this these characters these like rad gothic teens that we
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do the voices for on craig of the creek we show up in fucking pajamas basically say our own voices with words that were written by someone else tell us say our own voices proudly
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I'm like tell it sis yes yeah apparently I get you I don't know where my brain is
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it's the best it is it is the best and then you don't have to worry about can I find a shirt that
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that somehow tricks the eye or whatever it's like all of that's off the table it is a joy forever
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it's true and what's so great about the show too is that it's like 10 or 11 episodes that I get to
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just sort of peek in and watch people be in these apartments and try to play this social media game
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of strategy to be the most popular person, but without being too loud and proud. It's so fun to
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watch. And I feel like I know them. So by the time I meet them at the finale, they're like,
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I know you. And I'm like, I know you. I know what you've had for breakfast for the last two weeks,
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which sounds really creepy now that I say it out loud. Absolutely. That's peeping Tom behavior.
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You're peeping Michelle is what they should rename that show. I know. Peeping Tatiana.
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I make money for it. Al, live your journey. Hey. Hey, speaking of journeys, we bet you.
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How's that segue? You like that? Ooh, are you a mall cop? Because you've got a segue.
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Yes. Yes, I am. That's my night job. we heard you probably have a hometown story meaning you have a story that you can tell us
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any kind of story yes so it's so interesting because um i sort of redefine what hometown
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means to me because i call myself the khaleesi of jersey because i was born in the north raised
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in central lived in the south and i was just like gotta get out of jersey and so
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this story happened when i was actually living in new york city but this was also the year that i
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I moved to New York City from Miami because I went to college there. My parents ended up following me because I'm good company and the only child.
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Anyways, I'm so glad I canceled therapy today. You guys get five out of five stars on ZocDoc.
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This is it. This is it, baby. And I'm usually doing therapy in my closet or the car, oddly enough.
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So yeah, I started working in the news and I moved to New York City. I was working at NBC editing for the local news.
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and I actually started comedy that year, September 14th, three days after September 11th.
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But there was a story in the news that just hit different. And it was about Sandra Levy,
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this intern in DC who was dating a married, was he? He was some sort of like Democrat.
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He was some dude, right? And he was married. He should not be dating her because she was in her
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early 20s. And I remember her picture vividly because she was a white girl with curly hair.
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And I was like, she gets to struggle and we would have been friends. And she went missing.
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And that's like my worst nightmare. Just people not knowing. And this is before like find my iPhone, before like tracing any sort of, we didn't have maps
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in our phone back then. I don't even think, I think I had a flip phone or a BlackBerry.
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I think, yeah, I think it was, it may have been pre-cell phones, right? I think so.
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And so some people had them, but most people didn't. that. Yeah. How did we even do blackberries? I mean, those ones were so teeny tiny. And
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my fingers looked like I had gout every time I try to use a blackberry. The King's disease. Remember T9 texting too, where you would have to,
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kids don't know these days, where you'd have to hit the fucking thing three times to get to the
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letter that you want to do. Oh yeah. To get to your letter. That's right. Yes. Everything took a half an hour. Yeah.
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That's why we're so patient, you know, because we really had, we actually had to wait for it.
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So Sondra Levy, yeah, she dated this guy. She wasn't supposed to be dating. She went missing.
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Nobody knew. The police were just dropping balls left, right and center. Her parents couldn't get anybody on the phone.
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You know, this is before I started protesting because I'm like, I cover the news.
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I don't like become part of it. Yeah, because she was like a career woman herself.
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We should clearly like out on her own, on the rise, and then just disappearing. And then this boyfriend who had more power than her, who is basically kind of pulling the strings.
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I think I covered that one probably a couple years ago. Really? Yeah, yeah. Because I remember that too.
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There's really nothing like seeing someone relatively your age where it's like no one
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knows where this person is. She has this huge full life. She has all these friends.
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and she's disappeared and they can't get the boyfriend to say anything. And it's as if that's all there is to it, where it's like, wait a fucking second,
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someone has to do something. And that was all the DC power shit. But then it turned out though, because they said they focused on that scandal, right?
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And they got all into his life and what he was doing. Meanwhile, totally ignoring that there
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was this missing woman. And it turned out that boyfriend had nothing to do with it, right?
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I mean supposedly yeah they took some dude from El Salvador who had also been arrested for two or three attacks in the same park where her remains were found But so many balls dropped Yes Yes And it just like I am not returning something to Target bitch Do you know I am trying to find my daughter tick tick tock So I can only imagine
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how frustrating that was. And not only did she have this powerful boyfriend that was calling the
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shots, 9-11 happened. Right, that kind of swept everything else out of the news. It was almost
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It's like no one could figure out how to care about every other problem when there was just this kind of life changing, reality changing thing that happened.
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in New York at the time. What, was it just this disturbing, quiet, sad? I mean, what was it like then?
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For 9-11? Yeah. It was pretty wild. So I moved to New York City on St. Patrick's Day, 2001,
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and I have a vivid memory of walking over Green Vomit to go to Rockefeller Center.
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And I was like, no one's in church. We're just all drinking. No one's in church.
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No one's in the saints day. It's a holy feast of St. Patrick. I forgot about that.
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Didn't they come to Ireland and say they should have potatoes? Look, I'm bad at storytelling, but you guys are good at it.
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But 9-11 was crazy. I remember being out September 10th, having a few drinks at a pub, surprise, meeting a really cute English guy, making out with him, going to work.
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And then 9-11 also happened at 9-11 a.m. And I was supposed to be off 9-30 a.m. And then I ended up staying till I think 6 p.m. or 7 p.m.
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And it was one of those wild things where I really felt like I was in a horror movie because when you edit the news, you never expect you see like a house fire, but you never see the people in there.
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Yeah. Yes. And this was like you saw people jumping and you were like, is this an accident?
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We were all figuring it out in real time between the Pentagon and then another plane.
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And I remember my news director was like, you guys can stay at your own risk or leave at your own will.
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I'm not forcing you to do anything. And I had my mom on speakerphone keeping me company while trying to edit.
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And I'm like, mom, I'm going to stay. Like, that was my instinct. I have to stay.
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Wow. And she was like, I'm going to stay on the phone with you. And so it was really a blackout moment.
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And then my friend that I was out drinking with, she came for her next shift, her shift the next day.
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I just remember her patting me on my shoulder and she was like, go home now. And it felt like I just melted.
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And I walked down the street to go home from 56th and 9th. And it was just empty, but still chaotic.
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And the next day, I remember my news director was like, we're going to get everybody therapy because this is going to be a really crazy time.
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Wow. And I don't even fucking know why. I was just like, I don't need therapy. I'm going to start stand up. And then I did stand up.
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Because I know, and therapy is so expensive, I should have gotten it. But yeah, I mean,
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and then I did my first stand up class September 14th. Well, I did my first stand up show September
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14th, 2001. And then I was like, I need classes. What is this? But I still loved it and got classes
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at American Comedy Institute. Steve Rosenfeld, he's great if you guys ever want to do that.
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Yeah I mean for three months I did not go food shopping at all I just worked 12 to 16 hour shifts ate food at work Doing standup was really therapeutic Yeah Just basically editing a horror movie It like can I have 30 seconds
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of B-roll with no body parts? And this is like, yeah. I had no, I didn't know you did that.
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Yeah. And I can only talk about it now because it's like, yeah. But I didn't talk about this for
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at least 15 years. Wow. Did you ever end up going to therapy? Did you finally pick up that offer
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or you were just like, it's all going to go on stage? Oh, it's gone. I should call them up right
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now, even though I haven't worked there forever. I'm like, hey, you up? That offer? Because I think
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I need it now. Yeah. Actually, my bad. And it's so true. I think for a lot of comedians,
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I'm not one, but it would seem like comedy, stand up comedy is therapeutic, right? You go up there
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to work through some shit in a humorous way, like Karen and I do on this podcast too. It's like,
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here's the way I get through stuff. Therapy right now, it's too front and center for me to
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unwrap this. I'm living in it right now. So why am I going to go through it? I just need to ignore
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it. It feels like that it makes sense that you wouldn't be able to start processing something
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that you have to still be in the middle of as your job. Yeah. And I was lucky enough to not
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even lose someone. But it's also every year editing the memorial and it's being so close to it.
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And it's now performing for people who are 22 years old and don't even know anything about it
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or performing in the middle of the country where it just feels like something somebody's seen on TV.
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I liken it to racism because I'm like, no, no, this is real. I know that you've never seen it
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in your five mile radius, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. And so when I try to explain
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these things to people like at a dinner party without them rolling their fucking eyes,
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I'm just like, just take two whole minutes to even think what it would be like to look like
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someone else in another neighborhood, because that's like the problem I'm always facing.
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It's exhausting already going through it, but it's even more exhausting trying to tell someone that it's real. And so I couldn't find it on stage and I kind of like
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didn't want to. And so that's why I was really thankful for the book because I was able to put
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it in the book. Survival of the Thickest. Survival of the Thickest, plus size essays
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in a small minded world. I love it. Wow. Incredible. I have chills, Michelle. I love it.
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Like what a story. That's quite something you were on the front lines of culturally one of the
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hardest things that everyone has gone through. Yeah. I mean, people sort of getting back to
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the flip phones don't even know why we do what we do now. Why do you think you have to go through
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security at the airport? We didn't have to before. We didn't have to take electronics out of our bag
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and our shoes off. We're different. You could bring water. Yes. You could bring liquids. You
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could bring your breast milk and not be accosted. Like we're different, you know? And so I think
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20 years from now, I don't know what life is going to look like with COVID, but we're different.
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Yes. Forever now. And so, yeah, I mean, it's a mind fuck. But I mean, good friends,
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good food, good wine, and healthy kids help. Yeah. And laughing. Laughing. One of my favorite memories of comedy was when we were at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival
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together. I've got my check, still never went through. This is where we discovered Canadian Kit Kats. It was a whole experience that me and Michelle
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and Butcher had together this weekend. And she was usually headlining, it was basically like these
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eight, 10, 12 person shows. You'd just be sitting backstage for hours. And every time, everyone would go watch Michelle. And I don't think you did the same joke twice the
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entire time we were there. It was so much crowd work. I just was so blown away by you. And it's
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like, you are the kind of person that can make everybody laugh all the time. Everybody, anywhere,
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we're in the middle of fucking Winnipeg, it's freezing cold. Everyone's got Band-Aids on their face.
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I'm like, what in the Duck Dynasty? Did you just come from flipping a cow? This is confusing.
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I had to do crowd work because it was the same people at each show. And they were all related somehow.
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I was like, this is crazy. This is just so insane. And they go by RB now. Oh, is that right?
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Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, they go by RB now. And RB killed it. I had never met them before until that festival, if you want to call it a festival.
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No shade, Winnipeg. Don't call for me, Winnipeg. But I just remember really adorable zaddies and butch lesbians
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coming up to Arby at the time and being like, I feel so seen. I was like, what in the Ellen
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DeGeneres is going on? All of it was so good. In Winnipeg, I love that. It was really a cool, there was something going on that weekend where it was like,
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everyone was kind of on their game. But then we found this little, our own sub click. I was just
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like, these are the people I need to spend this weekend with. These are the people that are making
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me happy as opposed to sometimes that comedy feeling where you're like, everyone's your
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rival or compliments hit wrong or vibe, vibe, vibe or whatever. And instead it was just like,
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where are my people? There they are. Okay, great. Now I can land over here on this
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This horrible leather couch. I was like, we'll always have Winnipeg. If I go through our group text, it's just pictures of Canadian Kit Kats and potato chips.
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I don't know. It was really fun. I mean, only because you guys were there. It was beautiful.
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Why do people have band-aids on their face? It was confusing. Is it wind chill? It was so cold that they had to bandage their faces. It could have been that. And also,
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I really loved the vibe. It was so deeply Canadian there, which was kind of like,
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whatever you're about to bring us, that's good. We're happy just to have some kind of entertainment.
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It's like people with their grandparents. I felt like there was a lot of three generations of a
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family were there to watch you? Oh, there was. There was a lot of like, I could have been a
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contender, Joan Rivers type bitches. Where it's just like, am I doing amazing crowd work or is
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this like a setup for Canada's Got Talent? Because then they would come up and be like,
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I got a song in my heart. And I'm like, what the fuck is going on? And you'd be walking down the
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street, somebody with a bandit on their face would be like, I heard you met my grandma. I'm like,
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who the fuck are you? Yes. You go to the one restaurant that everyone would go to,
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And then people would be like, I want to buy you pizza. Or it sounds good. I don't, whatever you want.
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Confusing. I think it was the same mic for all three different venues. It was a DIY.
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It was a DIY. It was a DIY where true and real friendships were built DIY why are we here to have a party To really do it To really do it I love it
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So good. Guys. Oh my God, Michelle. We've been all over the place and it's been magical.
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Michelle, you can- It's the best. You can just talk at me. Actually, everyone, download Michelle's audio book.
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That's a great way to have her talk at you. Survival of the Thickest. Yes. I mean, and then just-
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Yes, please. Oh, wait. If you are in New York City on November 13th, you can go see Michelle at the Town Hall Theater,
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which is part of the New York Comedy Festival. She will be headlining because since she worked really hard at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival,
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she is now headlining at the New York Comedy Festival. That's how it works. Mama, I made it.
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I made it at the big time. Band-Aids ripping off, everybody cheering. Tied out for everybody.
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And y'all can also find her at Michelle Buteau on Twitter and Instagram, where she's just darling and wonderful.
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I'm trying my best. Fuck, thank you so much for being on here. Yes, we love you very much.
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Oh my goodness. I love getting into bed with you bitches. It was so fun. Hey my body like a Tempur mattress Put a glass of wine on it It will not tip Go jump jump
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I want you guys at home to know that Michelle is cracking her chest forward. She's popping her titties for us.
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I'm cat cowing. I'm cat cowing. We love you. Thank you so much, Michelle. Bye, bitches.
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Episode Highlights

  • Dr. Death the Cowboy
    A charming neurosurgeon leaves a trail of broken bodies instead of healing.
    “He promised to heal them. Instead, he left a trail of broken bodies.”
    @ 00m 48s
    November 03, 2021
  • Michelle Buteau's Journey
    Michelle shares her experiences and thoughts on identity and representation.
    “I feel like that's boring. And these days, it's all about representing the fluidity.”
    @ 04m 33s
    November 03, 2021
  • 9/11 Impact on Comedy
    Michelle recounts her experience in NYC during 9/11 and how it influenced her comedy.
    “Doing standup was really therapeutic. Yeah, just basically editing a horror movie.”
    @ 17m 28s
    November 03, 2021
  • A Fun Weekend Vibe
    The group reflects on the joy of being together and the Canadian atmosphere.
    “It was so deeply Canadian there.”
    @ 24m 13s
    November 03, 2021
  • Michelle's Big Moment
    Michelle Buteau celebrates her success at the New York Comedy Festival after hard work.
    “Mama, I made it.”
    @ 26m 05s
    November 03, 2021

Episode Quotes

  • This is a story of greed, betrayal, and a fight for justice.
    Celebrity Hometowns with Michelle Buteau
  • I know Gordy Lachance. I am Gordy Lachance.
    Celebrity Hometowns with Michelle Buteau
  • I mean, what was it like then?
    Celebrity Hometowns with Michelle Buteau
  • Mama, I made it.
    Celebrity Hometowns with Michelle Buteau
  • I love getting into bed with you bitches.
    Celebrity Hometowns with Michelle Buteau
  • Bye, bitches.
    Celebrity Hometowns with Michelle Buteau

Key Moments

  • Greed and Betrayal00:51
  • Celebrity Hometowns01:32
  • Michelle's Closet03:51
  • 9/11 Reflections15:04
  • Therapeutic Comedy18:42
  • Weekend with Friends23:27
  • Canadian Vibes24:13
  • Goodbye Fun27:02

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