Samantha Bee, HOW TO SURVIVE MENOPAUSE
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Emmy-winning comedian Samantha Bee chats with Zibby about her hilarious self-penned one-woman show and Audible original, HOW TO SURVIVE MENOPAUSE. The two talk all things menopause, aging, and the daily indignities that accompany both. They bond over frozen shoulders, impossible bras, night sweats, and the absurd lack of public conversation and research around women’s health in midlife—and applaud the Gen X women who are finally breaking the silence. Samantha also reflects on her unexpected path to comedy and television.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbmedia.com and follow me on Instagram |
| 0:40.2 | at Zibby Owens. Samantha B is the author of How to Survive Metapause. It's an audible |
| 0:49.0 | original. She currently hosts the weekly podcast, Choice Words with Samantha B, and the Daily Beast podcast with Joanna Coles, both of which you should immediately subscribe to. |
| 0:59.5 | Literally, stop reading this and do it. |
| 1:01.7 | That's in the bio. |
| 1:02.7 | That's so genius. |
| 1:03.7 | Anyway, in case you were curious, Samantha B was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. |
| 1:07.6 | She joined the Daily Show with John Stewart's best effing news team |
| 1:11.6 | on Comedy Central in 2003 and later received global recognition from the success of her very |
| 1:17.3 | own weekly late-night comedy series Full Frontal with Samantha B. Full Frontal premiered in 2016 |
| 1:23.7 | and ran for seven seasons on TBS but no longer exists. |
| 1:28.4 | B is the author of The Essay Collection, I Know I Am, but What Are You, and has been honored |
| 1:33.1 | as one of Time 100's most influential people. |
| 1:36.2 | In 2023, B embarked on her first national tour, Your Favorite Woman, The Joy of Sex |
| 1:41.4 | Education, where she completed a 31 city run, including sold-out at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. R.I.P. Her new show, How to Survive Metapause, is currently touring, and she hopes the run will last as long as Perry Metapause 2 to 14 years. Hi, Sam. Welcome. Thanks so much for coming on Totally Booked. I'm so excited to talk to you about menopause and everything else. |
| 2:02.4 | Thank you. I'm so excited to talk to you too. Oh my gosh. I love the flower on your jacket. I know. |
| 2:07.6 | Oh, thank you. So pretty. It's so pretty. I wasn't sure if this was too, you know, grandma-ish or if it was cool. |
| 2:14.4 | No. I just went with it. I determined that it was cool, I said. |
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