Plot Synopsis

Executive produced by Queen Latifah, WEEKEND GETAWAY WITH MICHELLE BUTEAU is a one-hour docuseries that follows comedian Michelle Buteau, as she takes a break from home life and hits the road for a few weekends of much-deserved fun, food and wild times with her comedian pals. In each episode, Michelle and a friend take a no-judgement, potentially debaucherous journey to locales across the country, from the Gulf Coast of Mississippi with Tig Notaro to New Orleans with Sasheer Zamata to Malibu with Chelsea Peretti.

The entire three-episode series dropped on Thursday, June 10, 2021 on discovery+. In the first episode, Michelle visits her friend Tig Notaro's hometown on the gulf coast of Mississippi where they learn to hunt balloons with bows, arrows and friendship; find out the importance of spanking your clay and introduce Michelle to the sacred ritual of crawfish eating. Next, Michelle and pal Sasheer Zamata party Big Easy-style in New Orleans with the bayou's most ferocious residents, paint the town banana hammock blue in a tawdry art class and visit voodoo priestess Bloody Mary to dabble in the dark art of voodoo doll making. Finally, Michelle and Chelsea Peretti vacation in sunny Malibu where they learn how to save the earth by flinging poop, teach each other how to mom-twerk in a lyrical dance class and learn the finer points of octopus maintenance at the aquarium.