Samantha Bee Wants to Take Your Guns

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

This week on Good One, host Jesse David Fox sits down with Samantha Bee! You know, longest running Daily Show correspondent (12 years!) and current host and Executive Producer of her own Emmy-award winning show Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. The pair spoke about her show's recent special, Full Frontal Wants to Take Your Guns; specifically about the process of buying a car and converting it into a death machine. Just 'cause! Watch Full Frontal with Samantha Bee on TBS and listen to her podcast Full Release with Samantha Bee wherever you get your pods. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Good One, a podcast about joke.
0:13.6	I'm your host Jesse David Fox.
0:16.1	Each episode a guest comes on to play a clip of one of their jokes and then discusses
0:19.5	how they wrote it and how it represents what they're trying to do with their comedy.
0:24.3	This week's guest is Samantha B.
0:26.9	I know it's a cliche, but sometimes it really does feel like people don't need introductions.
0:32.6	I feel legitimately stupid, telling you who Samantha B is.
0:38.4	You know she was the longest running daily show correspondent.
0:41.8	You know she currently hosts Full Frontal on TBS.
0:45.5	That said, I am happy I spoke with Sam right now.
0:48.5	This last 12 to 18 months has been I have to imagine the while this time to ever have to
0:56.2	be a late night host.
0:57.6	It is a job that is built on repetition and consistency and you need to get into a rhythm
1:03.5	because it's just such a demanding slog to be doing shows every day or every week.
1:08.8	And to first have COVID happened, you're like, how do we do this show Sam to her credit
1:14.2	did it in her backyard.
1:16.8	And then it's the election and it's an election that has Donald Trump in it.
1:20.2	So you know you lived it it was anyway.
1:24.5	And she did it and she figured out how to make the show her own and how to adapt.
1:28.4	And you know with a new permanent studio and Connecticut and a new administration, Sam
1:33.0	clearly attends to just continue to freaking go for it.
1:37.2	A recent example is the Full Frontal takes on guns special, which will be playing a clip
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