Episode 35: Samantha Bee’s Fury, and Staffing the Supreme Court

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Politics, Arts, News, Wnyc, Books, David, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Yorker, New, Remnick

4.2 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Could Citizens United be overturned? Jeffrey Toobin and Pamela Karlan, a Stanford law professor, discuss what a Supreme Court dominated by Democratic appointees might do. Samantha Bee talks about how comedy hosts deal with tragedies like mass shootings. And the digital pioneer Jaron Lanier looks at how a utopian vision for the Internet went wrong.

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, how are you?
0:08.8	Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour.
0:10.7	I'm David Remnick.
0:11.8	We're here in an office.
0:12.7	We're at your office.
0:14.3	It's kind of a corporate-looking office.
0:16.3	Gosh, kind of corporate-looking.
0:18.1	It is.
0:19.3	I was being polite.
0:20.5	I'm a visitor. It's a cubicle matrix. This is a... I was being polite. I'm a visitor.
0:21.2	It's a cubicle matrix.
0:22.9	This is a...
0:23.4	It's not that I don't like this color paint, by the way. Oh my gosh. That's nice. Well, it's so flattering. And that's why we've chosen these drop ceilings and the fluorescent... Late this week, I went to see Samantha B. at her office. For years, she was a star cast member on John Stewart's The Daily Show.
0:39.5	And a few months ago, she was a star cast member on John Stewart's The Daily Show,
0:39.5	and a few months ago she struck out on her own with Full Frontal on TBS, making her, in the realm
0:46.0	of late-night TV anyway, amidst all those white guys at their desks, a kind of solitary woman.
0:52.6	There was never any doubt that she'd be a unique comic voice.
0:56.1	We just had no idea of the degree
0:58.0	until this week.
1:00.3	On Sunday morning,
1:01.9	after hearing the awful news from Orlando,
1:04.5	Samantha B and her staff
	...

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