It was a mini-summit of people who professionally do not like Donald Trump on Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, as Kimmel welcomed Full Frontal host Samantha Bee. While Kimmel took the traditional nightly late-night host shots at Bee’s but once-a-week round of Trump-bashing, they both commiserated over how the current…
The asterisk three words into the title of this Full Frontal With Samantha Bee special sets the tone: “The Great American* Puerto Rico (*It’s Complicated).” It is complicated, and Samantha Bee and her team go into a potential landmine of cultural misunderstandings with their eyes fully open. At its best, Bee and her…
It’s now been six months since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, but our fellow Americans are rallying. They could obviously still use some help with their rebuilding efforts, which Full Frontal With Samantha Bee is highlighting in The Great American Puerto Rico* (*It’s Complicated) special on March 28 at 10…
Introducing a Wednesday Full Frontal piece on the most recent scarily bananas videos and tone-deaf attacks on gun control opponents by the National Rifle Association, Samantha Bee was pissed. No, not at NRA “spokes-glock” Dana Loesch and her Bond-villainous, needle-eyed warning to liberals, the media, and other people…
Here’s what’s up in the world of television for Wednesday, January 31. All times are Eastern.
After an opening spent revealing the bigoted depths of gag-inducing “racist asshole” and White House “political smallpox blanket” and “enterprising slime mold on the Wonder Bread of democracy,” Stephen Miller, Samantha Bee took up the latter half of Wednesday’s Full Frontal attempting to do some good around the world.…
The ridiculous (but much less so in hindsight) presidential race of 2016 prompted TBS to extend the inaugural season of Full Frontal With Samantha Bee. Now it looks like the cable network wants Bee and her crackerjack staff to monitor the ever-expanding landfill that is the resultant presidency, as Variety reports the…
On her last Full Frontal before the holidays, Samantha Bee, appropriately enough, took most of the episode looking at how supposedly devout Christians have continued to support noted [fill in the deadly sin of the day] enthusiast Donald Trump. Especially those evangelical Christians whose rigid adherence to the most…
On Wednesday’s Full Frontal, Samantha Bee addressed the daily, incessant, eye-opening revelations about powerful male media figures being all manner of sex creeps by pointing out how Hillary Clinton was habitually described during her 2016 presidential campaign. Playing a clearly not difficult to find montage of media…
Airing only once a week, Full Frontal With Samantha Bee has both the handicap and advantage of playing catch-up on the week’s events. On the one hand, if—just to pick a crazily improbable example—a Republican senate candidate who’s already infamous for gleeful, atavistic bigotry is also revealed as a likely lifelong…
Having only one show a week to take swings at the worst people in America usually means that Samantha Bee’s punches land with the accumulated force of a weekend spent seething at the latest asshole’s assholery. Seeing as how the news that movie mogul and grotesque old school Hollywood stereotype Harvey Weinstein was…
Full Frontal With Samantha Bee returned on Wednesday, with America’s favorite Canadian late-night comedy host catching up on all she’d clearly not missed while she, one can only hope, slept the sleep of the just, somewhere far away from the Trump-despoiled landscape she regularly scours for injustice. Bee ran down the…
Fighting Nazis is very “in” right now, unless you’re the sort of asshole who would rather side with the Nazis, but it can be tough to fight Nazis when you’re an organization that works to counteract white supremacism and some asshole decides not to give you a federal grant you were promised. That’s exactly what…
A weekly, half-hour late night political comedy show in the age of Trump has to find a strategy to plow through a week’s worth of alarmingly awful news, some of which inevitably drops right before air time. Samantha Bee multi-tasks as well as anyone in late night, and Wednesday’s Full Frontal saw the host—after a…
Why, it’s a genuine, bona fide mini-musical about a “law they didn’t need for a problem they didn’t have” from Full Frontal host Samantha Bee! Sandwiched between a segment about Donald Trump and the Republicans’ new plan to scuttle the seriously not-death-spiraling Affordable Care Act and part one of her field piece…
The TCA press tour continues this weekend, with a number of late-night cable comedy writers assembling this morning to talk about the guy they spend the rest of their weeks talking about, too: Donald Trump. According to The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline, 45-fatigue was a major part of a conversation held today…
Wednesday’s Full Frontal With Samantha Bee saw America’s favorite Canadian late-night host wading back into the fetid seepage emanating from the Trump White House with her customary, dagger-eyed aplomb. Like her fellow Wednesday late-night Trump-bashers, Bee pointed out that the Trump’s recently convened “voter fraud”…
After six months of a Trump presidency and its attendant assaults on all that is decent, honorable, and especially female, Samantha Bee was looking for some much-needed spiritual sustenance on last night’s Full Frontal. So she went looking for perhaps the one woman in America more dogged in her pursuit of truth,…
“I have the best words,” is something a poorly programmed android might say, or a person waking from a cerebral event, or Dougie Jones. But it’s also, famously, how Donald Trump once described his particular brand of—let’s call it communication? On last night’s Full Frontal, Samantha Bee struggled mightily against not…
On this week’s Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, Bee sandwiched her weekly rundown of the various layers of bullshit the Trump administration is burying the country under to focus on the predictably racist and atavistic drug policies of currently embattled Attorney General and “apple-cheeked hate-hate goblin” (Bee’s…
