Samantha Bee on Laughing at our Political Hellscape

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Today, Jon is joined by Samantha Bee. Previously The Daily Show’s longest-ever correspondent and now host of the Emmy-award winning Full Frontal on TBS, Sam Bee has been talking politics — and cracking jokes — since the early years of the Bush administration. She joins Jon to talk about how she’s burned out from our worsening political discourse and offer some motherly advice for future Oscars attendees. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.

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0:00.0	We are headed into another midterm season.
0:03.6	We'll be talking about it, I know you guys will be talking about it.
0:07.0	How do you personally keep doing this show without getting burned out by politics?
0:11.9	I'm definitely burned out by politics.
0:14.2	Sorry.
0:15.2	There's like, I'm definitely burned out.
0:18.3	I hate everyone.
0:20.0	Everyone's bad.
0:22.1	There's no, there's no secret.
0:25.2	I mean, everyone's terrible.
0:28.6	It's all, I can really bring to it.
0:31.6	I don't want to talk about it anymore.
0:34.6	You are in the wrong line of business.
0:36.4	In the wrong line of business, for sure.
0:40.3	I'm John Favreau.
0:41.5	Welcome to Offline.
0:44.8	Hey everyone, my guest today is Samantha B, the Emmy award-winning host of Full Frontal
0:49.7	with Samantha B on TBS.
0:52.6	Most of you are probably familiar with San B. Before Full Frontal, she was the longest
0:56.7	serving correspondent on the Daily Show, which she joined in 2003.
1:01.6	That was the same year I joined my first presidential campaign.
1:04.9	So the two of us have had front row seats from slightly different perspectives as to how
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