Samantha Bee, long time correspondent with The Daily Show has her own show now. In front of a live audience but she isn’t sitting at a desk, Jon Stewart style. She riffs for a bit at the start with the help of some visual aids on screen. Then there are some prepared pieces. It was all very good I thought. I had my doubts at the outset about whether she could pull this off on her own but I think she nailed it pretty much.
I commented to my girlfriend that it was sort of the Tosh.0 of politics. She thought more Talk Soup of politics. But you get the drift.
People who know her and worked with her on the Daily Show raved about her comic timing and skills and writing chops. I think only some of that got to the airwaves.
But yeah, on this very, very tiny sample size, she’s been terrific. If she was on Comedy Central and not TBS, you could see her as a breakout star.
This is great, Samantha Bee is great. While there’s no need to compare, clearly Comedy Central missed the boat not pulling her in as the new host.
She hit the ground running and after 1 episode it seems clear I’ve found the replacement for the Daily Show fix that Trevor hasn’t been able to provide.
I really liked the segment on syrian refugees this week, and I think I have watched the Bernie Sanders as a Maestro clip five times and laughed every time. Whoever edited that clip together did a great job syncing the music.
Bee’s Not The White House Correspondent’s Dinner is up on Youtube. It’s pretty good. Decent mix of ragging on Trump and CNN and advocating for high quality journalism.
I thought it was OK. I’d rank it below her normal show, but I appreciated that it was live and that some compromises needed to be made.
Farrell was pretty good as Dubya.
I liked that her “correspondents” got some face-time and appreciation from the crowd.
I thought that the Samantha Bees from previous roasts was… more miss than hit. I thought the concept was clever, but other than the costumes I didn’t think the jokes were very good. The only one that I found consistently funny was “President Pence” one from the future, and even that one overstayed its welcome. Her on-stage bits were much better.
Likewise disappointed. I guess she apologized for that choice of word being said from one woman to another, not necessarily for its particular level of profanity. I can’t think of any other reason unless TBS gave her an ultimatum.
