Going to see Michelle Buteau live is the best reason to leave your house on a Thursday night! I recently saw my favorite comedian share her vivacious stand-up flavor at The Dynasty Typewriter in LA. If you don’t know Michelle Buteau yet, you will because her unapologetic nature is taking her places! She is stamping her name on so many great projects like her podcasts Late Night Whenever and Adulting with Jordan Carlos, First Wives Club on BET+, and the Netflix film Always Be My Maybe, just to name a few. If you do know Michelle Buteau, then it is huge for her to be in Los Angeles as New York City-based comedian. 

Michelle Buteau Live & In Person

Once I knew about this conscious, raunchy and bold black female comedian, I hoped she would come to LA. As soon as I heard about her Buteaupia Tour and saw a show listed on Dec. 5th in LA I bought two tickets without hesitation! I thought since I’ve seen her stand-up on YouTube, HBO’s 2 Dope Queens, and Comedy Central, and hearing her banter with her co-hosts in her podcasts, that I would be ready for her sold-out show. She didn’t hold any punches live! It’s like she showed another layer of herself that you can’t quite get from a TV special or podcast episode. Her witty and spitfire fast mind was at full capacity. She owned the stage, being bubbly, sassy, feminist, political, and most of all, hilarious.

Michelle Buteau delved into her pet peeves, like nasty people who eat food off their shirts, people falling too much and “making a meal” out of it instead of just getting up. Also, her joy of having twins with her Dutch husband and her nagging fear that said husband might want to kill her when he says “hey, let’s climb a mountain” or “let’s take a walk at night.” She even told us about being on set with Jennifer Lopez and waiting for the perfect opportunity to drop that they have the same birthday. There was hardly a moment without roaring laugher in the intimate theater and there were many times when I was doubled over, holding my stomach laughing. 

The Buteaupia Impact

Her ability to joke candidly and fully embrace her plus-sized figure with her “brown tittie” trademark jokes, is just a bit of what makes her shine. She fully embraces her sexuality, speaks her mind, and knows she’s feisty and charming all at once. She can talk about patriarchy and how it’s personally affected her health and even the birth of her children, while still dicing up jokes. Did you know that having a surrogate is only legal in seven states in the U.S., I didn’t, but Michelle Buteau did. That’s the beauty of a female comedian today, just by sharing stories from her own life, she can touch on a breath of topics and still relate to everyone in the room.

If you think a black woman talking about her twins, being married, and her various daily woes wouldn’t be interesting, then you just needed to see the room. There were women and men of all shades and backgrounds seated to see her. Everyone laughed when she was talking about sex, how she can’t fart in front of her husband, and her marveling at how “Baby boy wakes up every day with a smile on his face and baby girl wakes up crying. I’m like, ‘damn, do they already know about the patriarchy’?”

If you have the opportunity to see Michelle Buteau live, she will quickly become your new favorite comedian. Be sure to check if she’s coming to your city on her Buteaupia Tour!

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Best,

Kai