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Michelle Buteau schools Dave Chappelle on how to tell a queer joke without being transphobic: “Can you make it funny?”
A post shared by Netflix US (@netflix)Michelle Buteau has some words of advice for fellow stand-up comics who still rely on gay and trans jokes and punching down at the LGBTQ+ community in their sets: do better. Or, at the very least, make your bad jokes funny!In her new comedy special Michelle Buteau: A Buteau-ful Mind at Radio City Music Hall, which dropped hit Netflix December 31, 47-year-old Buteau takes aim at arguably the most famous anti-LGBTQ+ comedian of our time: Dave Chappelle.At one point, she recalls a story about a Black lesbian friend then notes the mixed reaction her story seems to be getting from the audience.