4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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The coronavirus pandemic has shuttered studio productions of every major late- night talk show. Samantha Bee and Jason Jones — her husband, producer and fellow former “Daily Show” correspondent — tell us about taking Bee's show, “Full Frontal,” into the woods outside their house in upstate New York. Jones is the crew, and Bee still opens every episode with her trademark speedy monologue. They now have no audience — except for woodland creatures.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. |
0:05.0 | Samantha Bee and her husband, producer and fellow former Daily Show correspondent, Jason Jones, |
0:10.0 | tell us how they took Bee's late night show, full frontal, into the woods, outside their house in upstate New York. |
0:17.0 | Jones is the crew, and Bee is still opening every episode with her trademark super speedy monologue. |
0:23.1 | I would love to tell you right now that this just floats out of my mouth and it's completely not, no, I have a prompter going. |
0:28.6 | I got an iPad with a prompter on it, rigged to a pole with duct tape. |
0:35.6 | B and Jones tell us how they're keeping their late-night show going with the rest of their |
0:39.0 | 70-person staff working from home. |
0:42.0 | But first on the news, banter, Disney Plus Booms, while people so far nibble at Quibi. |
0:47.9 | Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW. |
0:59.1 | I am joined by my buddy and banter, Matt Bellany. |
1:04.6 | Not quite of the Hollywood Reporter at this point, but still my buddy and banter. |
1:05.2 | Hello, Matt. |
1:06.0 | Hi there. |
1:12.5 | So you will be departing after a great run as editor of the Hollywood Reporter, but staying with us. |
1:20.3 | Yes, it has been an amazing 14-year journey, including the last three-plus running the editorial group, and I am very much looking forward to the next chapter. |
1:23.2 | Yes, and I have certainly enjoyed your support in certainly major stories, including our Times Up coverage, especially noteworthy in the past few years. |
1:32.8 | So thank you. |
1:34.4 | And glad you will be sticking around. |
1:36.7 | Several people have said, are you losing your buddy in banter? |
1:40.0 | And I was like, that is not going to happen. |
1:42.2 | Well, that's nice of you. |
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