Michelle Buteau's Welcome to Buteaupia is the perfect title for her Netflix standup special debut

Paste Magazine

"It’s an appropriate title, since the special feels like a one-way trip inside her wacky world of pet peeves and hidden Jennifer Lopez fandom," says Christian Becker. "Nothing is more fun to watch than a comedian who is happy to be there, and Buteau is without a doubt the happiest person in the room. Opening the show as her own warm-up act, she dances with the audience as if she’s in a crowded bar buying everybody a round of shots. This is her way of loosening up both herself and the crowd while also providing an entrance that is different than popping out from behind a curtain while soaking in the applause."

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• Michelle Buteau almost named her special A Good A** Year: "Yeah, I started working on this material last summer, and it was a good a** year, and the goodness was to be continued," she says. "I almost named the special 'A Good A** Year' and I was like, 'That is hella inappropriate because it is not anymore!' Now we’ve just got to get through the damn day. But I picked March 1 to film the special. We were going to do something later in March because I was just so busy, but I picked it because it was my grandma’s birthday and we would always go down to Jamaica to see her and it was always a big, fun time of year — especially growing up in Jersey, getting to go to Jamaica in the middle of the winter."
• After two decades of doing standup, Buteau is surprised to be recognized as an actor:  “That’s so crazy!” she says. “Because I’m like, oh my God, how did I trick them into hiring this bitch? I didn’t even have to make a sex tape to do it. I mean, I feel like I’ve been doing comedy for so long. I don’t mind slow burn, but you know, to start stand-up in 2001 and get your first half hour in 2015 is wild."
• Buteau on emerging at age 43: “I’m incredibly happy things are taking off,” she says. “I feel like I’ve got a Costco-sized blessing"