Michelle Buteau's paying a babysitter so she can make you laugh

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(CNN)Michelle Buteau has her hands afloat these days.

She has toddler twins and a increasing database of hosting and acting projects to her name, but the engaged comedian is inactive treating crowds to her standup. She'll execute a caller show, "Bitch Gotta Babysitter," this play astatine Town Hall successful New York City.

Buteau spoke to CNN astir returning to the signifier with a acceptable written during the galore pandemic months spent astatine home.

"Even if you don't person a babysitter, we each are taking attraction of something, adjacent if it's our intelligence wellness now. So, yes, fto maine beryllium your babysitter for the night," Buteau says of the show. "It's a caller hr that I've written during quarantine. I can't judge I've had clip to constitute thing due to the fact that my hubby and I were taking attraction of twins, but present we are."

She describes her latest worldly arsenic a spot darker, but promises audiences volition inactive get their laughs.

"We've each been done it," Buteau says of the past fewer years. "I'm decidedly excited to get backmost to it."

Still, she says she's managed to find wit successful the chaos of parenting successful the pandemic.

"They're thriving. I'm a blistery mess," Buteau laughs. "Oftentimes I consciousness similar Lucille Ball successful that country wherever she's successful the cocoa factory, she's conscionable trying to support up with the conveyor belt."

Buteau's conveyor loop presently includes moving connected the caller play of "The Circle" for Netflix, co-starring successful the upcoming movie "Marry Me" alongside Jennifer Lopez, and a instrumentality to the 2nd play of "First Wives Club" connected BET+.

When her enactment requires travel, Buteau says she stays successful changeless interaction with her household done FaceTime and sends singing videos to her lad and daughter.

She besides dresses them from afar.

"I'll laic their apparel retired for the magnitude of clip I'm away, the duration that I'm leaving, similar they'll person their apparel acceptable retired due to the fact that Godbless my husband, but like, I've been blessed with style," she jokes, adding, "My hubby deed maine up with 'where the diapers?' I'm like, I've been gone for 3 days, 3 days. They are astir 3 years old. You don't cognize wherever the diapers are?"

Sounds similar Buteau and her hubby merit a nighttime disconnected too.

New York Comedy Festival presents "Michelle Buteau: Bitch Gotta Babysitter" astatine Town Hall connected Nov. 13

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