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Here’s Sam Bee’s Even-More-Relevant-Now Field Piece About Having Legal Abortions in Anti-Choice States
June 24, 2022
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The Supreme Court of the United States, though not dedicated to upholding the will of the people, are certainly defying it these days, especially with its latest decisions on gun control and abortion. This morning’s official overturning of Roe vs. Wade is a tragic shot to what was largely thought to be inalienable rights to one’s body in America.

With the potential of Roe vs. Wade being overturned, Full Frontal with Sam Bee came up with the incredibly clever segment for the new dystopia we live in where a possible legal loophole could offer abortion access in those super-Christian states where abortion is probably already illegal as you read this.

While it’s satirical in nature, this might be a new reality for us all. Watch/laugh/feel alright with this Full Frontal with Samantha Bee abortion segment here.

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and Last Week Tonight Also Set to Return via Taping at Home
March 25, 2020
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Already, you’ve seen the likes of late night hosts Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, Trevor Noah, Seth Meyers, and Jimmy Fallon all keep the wheels of their late night empires spinning by getting really creative and taping episodes remotely, often utilizing videos shot on their smartphones or tablets.

Joining them will be Full Frontal with Samantha Bee who had already been taping segments from her home in the woods (and calling it Little Show in the Big Woods) and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver who will be taping remotely from his own home as well. These episodes will air in the usual time slots, Sam Bee on Wednesdays at 10:30PM on TBS  and Oliver going on Sundays at 11PM on HBO.

Both are airing this Wednesday and Sunday, respectively, just another sign of a new (hopefully temporary) normal of how TV is made and still brought to us in a somewhat familiar way.

Also, as a silver lining, seeing late night’s host have to incorporate their family into their bits is a bit heartwarming.

‘Full Frontal With Samantha Bee’ Renewed at TBS for Fifth Season
November 13, 2019
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‘Full Frontal With Samantha Bee’ Renewed at TBS for Fifth Season

This renewal at TBS will definitely mean we’ll get to see Samantha Bee and company do their thing through the 2020 election and, potentially, be in a world post-Trump? 

It almost sees like a world of infinite possibilities for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (and all of late night for that matter) if that indeed happens (well, depending on who gets elected).

Samantha Bee to Get More TBS Oversight After Ivanka Trump Slur
June 6, 2018
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Samantha Bee to Get More TBS Oversight After Ivanka Trump Slur

We have a bad feeling about this. 

As State Farm and Autotrader.com pulled their ads from Samantha Bee’s time slot, TBS, even after the unnecessary apologizing from both Bee and themselves, feels they need to reassure advertisers that such a thing as Bee using a curse word she used all the time (without controversy we might add) won’t happen the same way again.

So, Bee will have gone from “full creative license” to the network watching her more closely. We don’t know how much of a muzzle that puts on Bee and her team at Full Frontal, but the precedent set here isn’t great. 

If all of this is supposed to be making things “even-steven” between liberals and conservatives for Roseanne tweeting out what was barely a joke and horribly racist then having get her show immediately cancelled, then we can only see both sides getting more entrenched from here on out.

Still, we hope that Full Frontal with Samantha Bee will figure it out and this won’t be like when a late night host move from 12:30AM to 11:30PM and has to become, essentially, family friendly.

Samantha Bee PSA Spells Out How to Not Commit Sexual Harassment/Assault as That Seems To Be Something That Still Needs Spelling Out
October 12, 2017
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It is 2017 and, if you’ve followed any of the recent news of indie film figures being taken down by a history of sexual assault and harassment, a crystal clear refresher course might be needed for plenty of folks.

Here’s Samantha Bee taking a few minutes out of this week’s Full Frontal to give said refresher course.

Bob’s Burgers, United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell, and Sam Bee Win at 2017 Creative Arts Emmys
September 10, 2017
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Bob’s Burgers, United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell, and Sam Bee Win at 2017 Creative Arts Emmys

While not making it to the live broadcast, the Creative Arts Emmys gain more importance and distinction every year as the TV landscape continues to drastically change. 

So, we’re glad to see things like Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Presents Not The White House Correspondents’ Dinner and United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell score Primetime Emmys wins here. Also, Bob’s Burgers getting their first Emmys win deserves a round of applause.

Here are all the comedy winners from last night’s (which is just the first half FYI) Creative Arts Primetime Emmys (get the full list at the link above):

Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance-Family Guy
Outstanding Interactive Program-Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
Outstanding Animated Program-Bob’s Burgers
Outstanding Short Form Animated Program-Adventure Time
Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program-United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell
Outstanding Short Form Variety Series-The Daily Show – Between The Scenes
Outstanding Variety Special-Carpool Karaoke Primetime Special 2017
Outstanding Writing For A Variety Special-Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Presents Not The White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Outstanding Picture Editing For Variety Programming-Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
Outstanding Makeup For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special (Non-Prosthetic)-Saturday Night Live
Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control For A Limited Series Special-Saturday Night Live

Elizabeth Warren Gives Samantha Bee a Pep Talk
June 30, 2017
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As you all are probably well aware of, resisting takes a lot out of you. 

So, you might be like Samantha Bee from this week’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and need some much needed words of encouragement. 

Bee got it from one of the most best around, Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Watch it here and feel free to imagine yourself in Bee’s seat as well.

Watch Samantha Bee Roast Presidents Throughout Decades in Past and in Alternate Futures for Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
May 1, 2017
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Though the administrations of Nixon, FDR, Clinton, Reagan, Wilson, JFK, Truman, and more didn’t get the barbs of a White House Correspondents Dinner of the 21st century, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee made sure to dream up what that might be like for the #NotTheWHCD event this weekend. Bee was in proper period comedian attire and had plenty of references we hope you don’t have to look up.

Also, looking to the future, Bee and co. imagined, at the end of that segment, what a White House Correspondents Dinner would be with Pence as the POTUS (assuming Trump is out of office soon) or what an alternate future WHCD would be had Hillary Clinton won last year’s election.

Overall, Bee made good on having an alternative to the WHCD, though Hasan Minhaj did an amazing job as WHCD host, and, additionally, raised over $200K for the Committee to Protect Journalists. Perhaps, a new annual tradition has been born?

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee’s Not The White House Correspondents Dinner Is Tonight
April 29, 2017
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Tonight, tune in at 10PM on TBS or 8PM PST on a Twitter livestream (with a 6PM PST red carpet) for Samantha Bee and Full Frontal doing their own White House roast, The Not The White House Correspondents Dinner.

Nothing like this has been really done as other presidents, even Bush, show up to the White House Correspondents Dinner and make that spectacle enough for the weekend.

It would be great to see if the ratings for both Sam Bee’s Not The White House Correspondents Dinner and the actual WHCD with host Hasan Minhaj got “fantastic ratings”, partially because Trump wasn’t there.

Here’s a Promo for Full Frontal’s Not The White House Correspondents Dinner, Which Will Air the Same Night of WHCD
April 11, 2017
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With the fate of the White House Correspondents Dinner undecided a few months back, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee announced that they’ll be doing their own special that evening that would assure the Trump Administration would get their due that night.

Coined as “Not The White House Correspondents Dinner”, you can see what Sam Bee and company have in store with this promo released this week.

As announced today, Hasan Minhaj will be hosting this year’s actual White House Correspondents Dinner. So, you can actually pick between a current and former Daily Show correspondent and their televised special event on Saturday, April 29th.

As Trump isn’t attending because he ostensibly doesn’t want his feelings hurt to his face, you have to wonder exactly how hard Sam and Hasan will go on Trump, Bannon, news outlets, etc..

Ratings Wise, “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” Continues Ascent and Colbert Now Edging Out Fallon
February 18, 2017
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(via Variety)

Holding the Trump Administration’s feet to the fire is finally taking precedence over non-topical games. 

Since her debut on TBS, Samantha Bee has almost tripled her ratings with her weekly show “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee”. Though trailing Fallon and The Tonight Show since taking over The Late Show from David Letterman, Stephen Colbert has taken a slight nightly ratings lead over Jimmy in these recent weeks after Trump’s inauguration and the whirlwind insanity of executive orders, overturned bans, resignations, etc. have dominated the news. Stephen has not wavered in taking Trump to task and didn’t jostle his hair when Trump went on The Late Show. 

That being said, The Tonight Show has got a bit edgier recently with having Jo Firestone play Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. 

Additionally, there seem to be an uptick in Colbert dropping F-bombs in the opening monologue as an appropriate expression of his feelings about what’s going on in The White House. There might not be a correlation with the new ratings lead, but it’s a shift in tactics from when Stephen used to just make fun of sidestepping explicit language because of being on CBS at 11:35PM. 

Going forward, Bee will undoubtedly get more latitude to do even more of what she wants and Colbert might just increase his lead with being a more defiant Colbert. We’re sure that’s the Colbert that will be hosting when The Late Show goes live after the February 28th Trump address to Congress.

Full Frontal’s Amy Hoggart Tells Stories of the Scottish That Have Successfully Stood Up to Trump
February 9, 2017
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If you’re looking for your feel good story of the day, look no further than Amy Hoggart’s report for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee on a handful of Scottish people who have defied Trump’s golf course in Scotland.

In addition to gleaning lessons for future resistance to unjust Trump Administration policies, you also get to see a bunch of Scots curse the hell out of Trump. 

It’s pretty damn satisfying all around.

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Will Be Having a “Not the White House Correspondents Dinner” Opposite the Actual WHCD
January 30, 2017
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Every year, a comedian hosts an evening poking fun at Washington D.C. and press members that cover it at The White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

As you might imagine, with Trump as President and how an overwhelming majority of comedians and celebrities feel about him, the event will have a bit of a different feel this year. 

We’d wager that the WHCD for 2017 won’t even be similar to when Colbert hosted it during the Bush Administration in 2006. 

In anticipation of that, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee will be hosting an alternative to watching the impending mess that the actual WHCD might be. On the same evening, Saturday, April 29th, Bee will lead the “Not The White House Correspondents Dinner”. More details as to what they have planned to come.

Here Are Samantha Bee and John Oliver’s Past Segments on Migrants and Refugees Because They Seem Even More Important Than When They First Aired
January 29, 2017
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Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver have done great, extensive coverage on why such Trump’s recent travel and immigration ban is unnecessary and awful. Though you might have seen it already, the segments seem even more crucial than when they hit the airwaves and the Internet.

So, we’ve gathered the lot of them up here in this post for your convenience. 

This weekend, President Trump signed an executive order that banned immigration and travel from non-U.S. citizens from 7 Muslim majority countries that are suspected of sending terrorists to our shores here in the U.S. 

Of course, this prohibits many refugees from coming to America that have already gone through a rigorous process to come to the States for the next several months. Here are more details on what the executive order says and does as well as the aftermath, which includes a few judges defying the order in regards to detaining certain individuals already at U.S. airports, from The Atlantic.

There are plenty of protests of this executive order to join at airports around the country. If you can’t join in there, consider donating to the ACLU or CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations).

Also, for the good measure of normalizing Muslims in the U.S., watch, rewatch, and/or share Aasif Mandvi’s brilliant satirical multi cam sitcom Halal in the Family.

Samantha Bee Covers the Women’s March and Investigates How Trump Supporters Are Feeling at the Inauguration
January 26, 2017
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Last night’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee couldn’t come a moment sooner as this past weekend will absolutely be put into the history books (actually, that depends on who will be writing and approving them). The dour affair of Trump’s Inauguration and the massive Women’s March all happened in the span of two days. 

Of course, Bee did a smash up job of covering both topics by highlighting just how big and important the Women’s March is (despite what certain pundits were saying) and letting her correspondents see if and how overjoyed Trump supporters were during the Inauguration.

We look forward to the important work that Bee and her team will be doing now under the Trump Administration.

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Returns Tonight
January 11, 2017
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10:30PM on TBS, Samantha Bee and the gang at Full Frontal are getting back to their important, comedic, holding-feet-to-fire work for season two of the show.

Yep, Bee has blazed a trail so bright that it might come as a surprise that she is only on her second season. 

So much happened during Trump’s press conference today, we wonder how much of it they will have time to address given all that has happened with Trump since their hiatus a few weeks ago.

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Returns for 2017 This Wednesday
January 9, 2017
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Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Returns for 2017 This Wednesday

Just a friendly reminder to that one of the most important late night shows of 2016 will be moving from Mondays to Wednesdays at 10:30PM on TBS for 2017 starting this Wednesday, January 11th. 

We’re sure Samantha Bee and company will continue to be one of the most important late night shows on 2017 no matter what night they’re on.

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Renewed by TBS Through 2017
November 16, 2016
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Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Renewed by TBS Through 2017

Samantha Bee will be as crucial as ever to have around over the next few years.

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee just got re-upped by TBS through next year and will move to Wednesdays at 10:30PM still right before Conan. 

Look for the 2017 run of the show to kick off on January 11th, which should get you fired about before a certain inauguration.

Here’s Samantha Bee Take on Donald Trump Becoming President-Elect
November 10, 2016
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In the same fashion that made Samantha Bee stand out from the rest of late night, Bee didn’t pull any punches in dealing with Trump winning while much of the rest of late night world was looking to be more positive or reconciliatory on the results.

Watch it here and you just might feel better for a few minutes (that is if you were with her).

With four years of a Trump administration lurking in the coming months, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, along with Last Week Tonight with John Oliver are probably going to be bigger deals than they already are (perhaps even as big as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart)

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Did a Supercut of All the Names She Has Called Donald Trump
November 7, 2016
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One of the biggest strengths, amongst many, of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee is the creativity in which they can descriptively tear someone apart. 

To prove that point and to possibly give you a few minutes of ease today, they made a supercut of Sam Bee’s many many takedowns of The Donald. Watch it and enjoy it here.

Oh, you should also know we’ll all be graced with a double dose of Samantha Bee this week will be an episode of Full Frontal tonight and then on Wednesday after the election.

Watch Samantha Bee Spit Fire on Trump’s Access Hollywood Tape
October 11, 2016
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When the hot mic tape heard ‘round the world dropped last Friday, you had to know that the full fury of Samantha Bee was going to come on her show Full Frontal on Monday night.

Well, Bee didn’t disappoint. Watch, enjoy her wonderfully brutal segment, and take note, once again, of how Bee is the unfiltered voice that late night so desperately needed.

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Finds a Preview of a Trump Presidency in Maine’s Governor Paul LePage
October 6, 2016
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What fills the nightmares that are inspired by a Trump presidency seem endless. Yet, what the reality Trump presidency might be like is still sort of a question. 

That’s why Full Frontal with Samantha Bee found an example of what that might be like and didn’t even have to go to the Philippines and see Rodrigo Duterte to do so. In our own backyard, the administration of Governor Paul LePage in Maine gives a pretty good preview of Trump in office.

Watch it here.

Samantha Bee Reminisces with and Talks Wanting the Election to Be Over with Stephen Colbert
October 2, 2016
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These Daily Show with Jon Stewart alums, Samantha Bee and Stephen Colbert, seem to be in the highest of highs with comedy hosting their own big time shows.

As such, when Bee stopped by on Colbert they got a bit nostalgic for both their time at The Daily Show and the days of their lives that didn’t have to focus on the election.

Watch it here.

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Went to a Gay Bar and a Sports Bar to Watch the First Presidential Debate
September 29, 2016
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The findings from this field report might not be shocking to you, but they’re still pretty entertaining, especially when they have a Trump supporter who thought Trump won chats with a Hillary supporter after the debate finishes.

Watch Full Frontal’s delve into watching the debate on both sides of the aisle here.

Samantha Bee Makes Sure She Didn’t Miss Anything Too Big During 5 Week Hiatus
September 12, 2016
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For the last several weeks, you might have noticed a certain emptiness that comes around Monday evening/Tuesday morning. If that is the case, we’re pretty sure you’re suffering from these last five weeks that Full Frontal with Samantha Bee was on hiatus.

Fortunately, your cure is coming in just a few hours as a new episode of Full Frontal is coming tonight.

In preparation for this, Samantha Bee made sure could pick up where she left off…

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