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Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Michelle Buteau Is Who She Wanted to See on TV as a Kid

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Good One is now on video! Check us out on ⁠Vulture's Youtube channel.⁠ Fresh off her Netflix special ‘A Buteau-ful Mind’ at Radio City Music Hall, Michelle Buteau reflects on all the venues she played to get here, the importance of her Netflix series 'Survival of the Thickest', and why standing up to the worlds biggest comedian is necessary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Have you interested to? Do you not play the comedy seller?

0:04.0

Oh!

0:08.2

What a question.

0:16.8

This is Good One. I am Jesse David Fox, writer at Vulture, and author of Comedy Book. My guest

0:21.6

today is Michelle Boutot. We talk about the significance of being the first female comedian to

0:26.0

ever film a special at Radio City Music Hall, co-creating the sitcom Survival of the Thickest

0:30.7

on Netflix, in which she stars as Mavis, and how you can talk about anything or anyone

0:35.3

on stage if you just make it funny and do it in a way that doesn't make anyone feel unsafe.

0:41.4

We laugh. She cried, like, really so much that I almost cried, but I didn't.

0:47.5

And overall, we have a damn good time. So, here is Michelle Boutot. I am here with Michelle Boutot.

0:54.4

Thank you so much for being here.

0:56.0

Oh, my God. Thank you for having a bitch.

0:57.4

What is the funniest thing that happened to you this week?

1:00.1

I was on a flight home from L.A.

1:02.5

I believe that I left my wallet on that flight.

1:05.6

The next day, I was supposed to go to Miami for my aunt's funeral.

1:09.9

Couldn't find my wallet.

1:11.5

Couldn't go to the funeral.

1:14.4

Supposed to be a pallbear.

1:15.9

Supposed to do a reading.

1:16.8

She was my favorite aunt.

1:17.8

And I'm like, well, I have to believe in like a higher power and just, you know, get out of church hat and be like, this is for a reason.

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