Mabel Simmons, otherwise known as Perry’s alter ego, Madea, took to YouTube to announce her upcoming tour, “Madea Gets A Job.” Saying “you’ll laugh so hard you’ll hurt yourself,” Madea outlines the tour, mentioning stops such as Memphis at the Orpheum Theatre March 15 & 17-18, Chicago’s Arie Crown Theatre March 22-25; Birmingham, Ala., at the BJCC Arena March 3-April 1 and Washington, D.C., at the Verizon Center April 6-7.

But Perry/Madea really gets the attitude rolling when she starts talking about service fees.

“Let me tell you what I told these promoters,” Madea says at approximately the 1:50 mark. “I want you to make sure you have a $25 ticket.”

Explaining that her ticket prices range from $25 to $85, Madea proceeds to give a lesson on ticketing economics.

“What I would suggest to you is to go to the box office to save some money,” Madea explains while her not-so-high-tech graphics fill up the screen. “Because they don’t add all the fees.”

At that point she shows how additional fees turn her $25 tickets into $45 tickets while here $85 tickets jump to $110.

“By the time you pay the $110 … you ain’t got no gas money to get down there.”

Although Madea isn’t all that crazy about service charges and additional fees, she saves her real venom for ticket scalpers, which she calls “bootleggers.” According to Madea, bootleggers sell her $25 tickets for more than $200 while she gets the blame.

“I don’t know what the hell is wrong with people,” Madea says. “I try to set a price that everybody can afford and these folks go out there and bootleg them and then y’all buy them and y’all get mad at me.”

Madea wraps up her pitch by reminding folks they can buy tickets for her tour at venue box offices.

“If you buy at the box office, you don’t pay no fees. You get a $25 ticket, you get an $85 ticket. I hope y’all understand me because I got nothing to do with this.”