The Indignity and Joy of Starting Over After a Breakup
Survival of the Thickest stars the comedian Michelle Buteau as a brokenhearted stylist intent on making “beautiful thickums” feel good about themselves.
If you’ve watched a Netflix original in the past few years, you might recognize the comedian Michelle Buteau as the platform’s punchiest voice of reason. At the beginning of the 2019 breakup comedy , Buteau’s character delivers a brisk self-esteem boost to the film’s protagonist, whom she encounters as a crying stranger on a subway platform: “Why he won’t try? Look at you with your pretty teeth and shit.” In Randall Park and Ali Wong’s , released about a month later, Buteau played Veronica, the very pregnant and very funny assistant to Wong’s celebrity restaurateur, Sasha. And since 2020, Buteau has hosted , a chaotic on which participants interact solely through a bespoke social network; she
