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🗓️ 4 April 2023
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It’s taken a while for Samantha Bee to get over the “shock” of losing her late-night TV platform. But now that she has, the comedian wants to make it clear that she still has a lot to say. In our 200th episode, Bee returns to The Last Laugh to look back on the legacy of ‘Full Frontal’ and ahead to the nationwide live tour she never could have pulled off while still hosting a weekly show. She directly addresses those who found her on-screen persona too “angry” and reveals whether anyone from ‘The Daily Show’ reached out to her about being a guest host after Trevor Noah stepped down. After everything, Bee is more confident than ever about how she wants this next chapter of her career to go.
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0:00.0 | She didn't know it at the time, but this was how my guest on this week's show ended her final monologue as a late-night host. |
0:08.1 | I can't describe how painful it is to be here now in a place where the Supreme Court has the power to erase 50 years of constitutional law. |
0:16.9 | Make no mistake, this is not where it ends. |
0:19.3 | Conservatives will not rest until they have come for all of our rights. |
0:22.5 | Everything we have fought for could be lost unless we take it back. It's not just about voting in November. |
0:28.7 | It's about doing everything in our power to protect and help vulnerable people access abortion across state lines. |
0:34.5 | And we have to raise hell in our cities, in Washington, in every restaurant |
0:39.8 | just as Alito eats at for the rest of his life. Because if Republicans have made our lives |
0:44.8 | hell, it's time to return the favor. We'll be right back. |
0:53.4 | This is the last laugh. |
0:55.7 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and that was Samantha B, who returns to the show this week for our 200th episode. |
1:04.1 | As I tell Sam in this conversation, I really could not think of a better guest for this huge milestone. |
1:09.8 | She was previously on episode |
1:11.5 | 8 all the way back in May of 2019, and so much has changed in the world and both of our |
1:17.8 | lives since then. The biggest change for Sam came last summer when her late night show |
1:23.2 | full frontal got canceled after seven seasons on TBS. |
1:32.1 | And what ended up being the show's final episode aired just two days before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. |
1:34.4 | She really hasn't said too much about what happened until now. |
1:38.6 | So it was such an honor to get the full story from her directly. |
1:42.6 | We talk about how she found out the show had been canceled, |
1:45.9 | what she learned from the experience of making it, |
1:48.3 | and how the whole thing has informed what she wants to do next. |
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