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Benita Butrell is a recurring sketch character from In Living Color featuring Kim Wayans as a gossiping neighborhood woman who breaks the fourth wall to share neighborhood gossip directly with viewers. She dishes dirt on her neighbors while repeatedly insisting "I ain't one to gossip, so you ain't heard it from me." The character is portrayed as a woman who appears at her window or on her porch, commenting on the various happenings in her neighborhood. A running gag involves her fiercely protecting "Ms. Jenkins" from gossip, claiming she won't allow anyone to talk bad about "sweet ole Ms. Jenkins," only to immediately turn around and gossip about Ms. Jenkins herself. This is a solo sketch where Kim Wayans performs alone but makes it seem like there are other people present through her comedic delivery and timing.

But I ain't one to gossip, so if anyone ask you, you ain't heard it from me. No you haven't.
That's good ole Ms. Jenkins honey I DARE somebody say something bad about Ms. Jenkins!
She smell so bad over there, I can taste it over here
Then one day I was heating up some ham hocks and my ponytail caught on fire in there some how!
Them kids so mean not even Chucky will play with them.
Girl so ugly she has to sneak up on a glass of water to get a drink and that lazy eye....you don't know if she is looking at your head or your feet.
She needs some flour, she needs some bread, she needs some eggs, she needs to take her ass to supermarket that what she needs to do!
So stank over there I taste it over here