Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVComedian, actor and author Michelle Buteau is busier than ever. She not only stars in BET Plus’ “First Wives Club,” hosts Netflix’s “The Circle” and will lead and executive produce “No Pulling Out Now” for Quibi, but she also recently shot an hourlong stand-up special (also for Netflix) and wrote her first book.
Now, at a time when her audience may need to laugh more than ever, the fruits of that work are paying off: Her special, “Welcome to Buteaupia,” is streaming Sept.
29; and her book, “Survival of the Thickest: Essays,” is out in December, from Simon & Schuster.In your new Netflix special, you say you’re having a “good ass year” — you have to be referencing 2019, right?Yeah, I started.
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