GETTING CURIOUS | Can Comedy Save Us All? with Samantha Bee

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Look, we already know the answer to this question. But we can dream! We’re sending you into Election Day with an early release of this week’s Getting Curious, featuring a conversation with the iconic comedian, writer, and producer Samantha Bee. She and Jonathan talk political humor, the Golden Girls, Canadian health care, and so much more. Take a listen when you’re in line to vote, when you need a break from refreshing last-minute polling numbers, or on the other side of Election Day—whatever happens, we’re here for you. Samantha Bee is the host and Executive Producer of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee on TBS and the podcast Full Release with Samantha Bee on Earwolf. Follow her on Twitter @iamsambee, and keep up with Full Frontal on Twitter and Instagram @FullFrontalSamB. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Check out all new Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to getting curious. I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation
0:06.5	with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious. I'd also like to quickly add that I'm literally standing in a coat closet as we speak.
0:16.4	On today's episode, I'm joined by the comedian, writer, producer, and late night host,
0:21.5	Samantha B, where I ask her, can comedy save us all?
0:25.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, This is Jonathan Van Ness, and I am so excited for two days guests.
0:33.2	I'm actually really so excited today for several reasons.
0:35.6	This is our last episode prior to the election.
0:38.8	And I just feel like I've been trying to hit these hard-hitting issues for quite some time and I just felt like the one before the week before the election let's talk about comedy and who better to talk about with comedy than Samantha B. Welcome to the show how are you?
0:55.3	I'm fine how are you? I'm fine. I feel like that's a great new response because I'm still in that autopilot of people asking me how I am and I'm like great and then I'm like oh wait I'm not really great it's like fine. It's like okay like healthy. There's a caveat to every answer to that question.
1:17.4	Yeah. So that's that and great. So here's today's question. I don't know if you've ever heard the the
1:23.8	podcast before but we always do a quid so everything is a question and our
1:27.3	question for you is is can comedy save us all? No and anyway the podcast is over that's it. Thanks for coming Anyways
1:33.0	over, that's it.
1:35.0	Close your computer.
1:37.0	I do.
1:38.0	I think that you know you're right not to get to the last second, right at the top,
1:42.0	but let's go there.
1:43.0	You can't put it to everything.
1:44.3	You can't.
1:45.4	It can't save us all, but it sure can help us process stuff.
1:50.6	That I can totally agree with you on that.
1:53.7	It can help us process stuff.
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