Episode 275 - Samantha Bee

Breaking Bread with Tom Papa

All Things Comedy

Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Arts, Food

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Today Samantha Bee joins us at the table! Warning: things get steamy, we're talking menopause! Samantha shares about her tour How To Survive Menopause and why connecting with her audiences is so precious. Tom and Sam also discuss the real reason Colbert got cancelled and why Sam will be topless in Ibiza any day now. Enjoy! Check out Samantha's podcast "Choice Words with Samantha Bee" and catch her on tour "How To Survive Menopause." Go to ButcherBox.com/papa for $20 off their first box and free protein for a year. -------------- 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:40 Patreon Shoutout 0:01:05 Touring, The Hamptons, and lakes 0:04:05 How to survive menopause 0:13:26 Connection to audiences 0:16:05 Comedy is saying uncomfortable things 0:17:15 Not publicly engaging in politics 0:22:52 Why Colbert got cancelled 0:30:35 Bread, cooking, salad 0:33:50 Getting started with sourdough starter 0:36:50 Butcher Box Ad 0:39:29 Scars, moles, surviving in the woods 0:43:59 Recurring dreams, malaria pills, and bug bites 0:48:15 Bats, country vs city 0:50:34 Uncomfortable moment 0:52:58 Coldplay concert 0:55:10 Sam at 80 years old, topless in Ibiza -------------- Tom Papa is a celebrated stand-up comedian with over 20 years in the industry. Watch Tom's new special "Home Free" out NOW on Netflix! Radio, Podcasts and more: https://linktr.ee/tompapa/ Website - http://tompapa.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tompapa Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@tompapa Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/comediantompapa Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/tompapa #tompapa #breakingbread #comedy #standup #standupcomedy #bread #samanthabee #colbert Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	That theater, that Ed Sullivan Theater, is the best place to perform.
0:04.9	It's a great theater.
0:06.1	I mean, that's just such a great physically dynamic spiritual place.
0:12.4	And the idea that that could possibly just sit empty?
0:15.3	You know what?
0:16.8	We're going to, Dana White is going to take it back.
0:19.2	And he's going to recreate slap fight, which was an awesome show.
0:25.8	Too, you know, gone too soon.
0:28.2	So we'll be having so much fun in the Ed Sullivan Theater short.
0:33.5	Don't you worry.
0:34.2	Keep your chin up.
0:35.0	Yeah, we're having MMA at the Kennedy Center.
0:38.0	We're having slap fights at Ed Sullivan.
0:41.4	It's breaking bread.
0:43.0	If you haven't joined our Patreon yet, you really should.
0:46.2	It's pretty great.
0:47.2	You get stuff from the road.
0:48.7	You get extra downloads after the episode.
0:52.1	Lots of cool content.
0:58.1	Go over to patreon.com and look up our podcast,
1:04.2	and we'd love to see you over there. And for those of you have already signed up, we'll see you there in a little bit. So nice to have you. Oh, you guys. So nice to be here. Thanks for having me.
1:08.7	Last night, I was looking at your name because I was in West Hampton.
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