Samantha Bee on Being “Democrat-Celibate” (from The Assignment with Audie Cornish)

On with Kara Swisher

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🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Samantha Bee is a comedian, author and former late-night host who hosts the podcast Choice Words with Samantha Bee and co-hosts The Daily Beast Podcast with Joanna Coles. Her weekly late-night comedy series, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee was nominated for over 70 awards — and she has personally been nominated for 18 Emmy awards and won for both writing and executive producing. Full Frontal was explicitly, and hilariously, political and left-leaning so it’s a bit surprising that Bee has declared herself Democrat-celibate, (at least for now). Samantha explains her new approach to politics and dishes on her biggest regret in this CNN pilot titled “Off Script” with Kara, Audie Cornish, CNN correspondent and host of The Assignment, and Van Lathan, co-host of The Ringer’s Higher Learning podcast. Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or find us on Instagram and TikTok @onwithkaraswisher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone, and happy holidays. I hope you're unplugged and taking some time to do whatever it is you like to do this time of year.
0:07.1	The On Team is taking a break for the holidays. So today, we're sharing an episode of one of my favorite podcasts, CNN's The Assignment with Audie Cornish.
0:15.9	But don't worry, you're not totally free of me because I'm actually in this episode.
0:20.1	For a pilot we're doing for CNN,
0:21.6	Audie, podcaster Van Latham, and I sat down with Samantha B, one of the funniest comedians I know.
0:27.8	She's a former host of Full Frontal with Samantha B and host of her own podcast called Choice Words
0:33.4	with Samantha B. We talked about a lot of things, and I've interviewed Sam many times over the many
0:38.6	years, but this time we talked about her checking out of politics, which has been her area that
0:43.2	she's been making jokes about for so, so long, and why she did that, and also about the worst
0:48.7	thing she's ever done. It has to do with a friend and a boyfriend. We'll see what that is when you listen to it.
0:55.1	In any case, I think you're going to like this listen.
0:57.1	It's a great conversation.
0:58.2	I was very happy to be part of.
0:59.8	Enjoy.
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