Samantha Bee Talks to David Remnick About Responding to Tragedies
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🗓️ 20 June 2016
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
There comes a moment in the career of every late-night comedy host when something happens in the world that is too tragic to make fun of, and much too big simply to ignore. Samantha Bee, a former star of Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show,” launched her own show, “Full Frontal,” in February. On Monday, just a day after the worst mass shooting in American history, she went on the air. David Remnick speaks with Bee about her naked grief and rage at what happened—and at her certainty that something like it will happen again.
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| 0:48.7 | I'm David Remnick. |
| 0:50.0 | On today's Politics and More podcast, I talk with Samantha B, the host of Full Frontal on TBS. |
| 0:56.6 | We met at her show's production offices. |
| 1:00.3 | Hey, hey. How are you? |
| 1:02.9 | How's it going? |
| 1:04.1 | We're here in an office. We're at your office. |
| 1:06.8 | It's kind of a corporate-looking office here on 57th Street. |
| 1:10.0 | It is. It's so... I was being polite. I'm a visitor. It's a of a corporate-looking office here on 57th Street. Kind of corporate-looking. It is. |
| 1:11.9 | I was being polite. |
| 1:13.1 | I'm a visitor. |
| 1:13.5 | It's a cubicle matrix. This is a... It's not that I don't like this color paint, by the way. Oh, my gosh. That's nice. Well, it's so flattering. And that's why we've chosen these drop ceilings. Late this week, I went to see Samantha B at her office. |
| 1:27.6 | For years, she was a star cast member on John Stewart's The Daily Show. And a few months ago, she struck out on her own with full frontal on TBS, making her, in the realm of late night TV anyway, amidst all those white guys at their desks, a kind of solitary woman, |
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