MCCAMMON: You mentioned burnout and exhaustion with the idea of covering another midterm election. You know, like, limit yourself (laughter).īEE: Don't get radicalized by cat videos, please. (Laughter) I'm just saying there might be darkness at the end, so be careful with the cat videos that you choose to consume. MCCAMMON: Are you going to ruin pet videos for us, Samantha?īEE: I'm not going to ruin them. And so we filmed that in the Brooklyn Cat Cafe just to give ourselves a feeling of hope and joy, just to be able to tell a very dark story with cats running around, you know? So how are we going to do this? You know, or we choose to tell a story - like, we have a piece coming up on the show that is about how kitten videos - kitten and cat videos can be a gateway drug to vaccine misinformation and disinformation. And that happens, too, where we're just like, oh, I feel very depleted, but I can't feel depleted. And the struggle will be real this year covering the midterms because we wish it wasn't happening (laughter). Like, how do we frame this in a way that feels fresh or feels like something we want to say? I mean, I think we're all struggling, I would say. And there are things that come across all of our eyeballs, where we go, oh, we really should do a story about this. Of course, I'm making the final decisions because the story has to move me in a certain way, too. MCCAMMON: What is that like behind the scenes in the pitch room? I mean, is there some spirited debate sometimes? Or are you the decider?īEE: Sure. It's very organic, actually, I think, how we land on the stories that we want to cover. We just sort of see it through a different set of lenses. How do you and your team decide what you want to talk about on your show?īEE: We ingest the same news media that everyone else does in this business. MCCAMMON: Some of your shows deal with issues that I cannot imagine a male late-night host taking on - things like endometriosis, for example. MCCAMMON: On that note though, the late-night comedy scene, as you know, is still relatively male-dominated. MCCAMMON: I think some of us in journalism can relate. It's like the merging of our only two skill sets. And because we're all comedians and comedy writers and comedy producers, we are bound to do it in a comedic way. And so it's integral to our lives to cover important topics that are of interest to us. MCCAMMON: Why do you want to deal with subjects like I just mentioned on a late-night comedy program?īEE: Well, you know, we are - you know, to a person at the show, the team I work with - we're all so committed to trying to make the world a good place to live in, and we're all news junkies. MCCAMMON: You have said that you host a comedy show about the most depressing topics in the universe. SAMANTHA BEE: Thank you so much for having me. As she heads into her seventh season, we wanted to know, how do you keep covering important stories in a way that's fresh, engaging and, most importantly, funny? Samantha Bee joins us now to talk about that. But Samantha Bee and her team at "Full Frontal With Samantha Bee," that airs on TBS, have never shied away from tackling topics that never seem to go away - gun violence, sexual misconduct, this pandemic. I've got to admit, it can be hard to find innovative ways to talk about the news sometimes and everything that's happening in our world.
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