Politics & Punchlines with Samantha Bee | TVO Today Live

Late-night comedy has evolved from entertaining satire to political powerhouse. How do these comedians view their role in holding power to account? The Agenda's Steve Paikin will find out in a conversation with Full Frontal and The Daily Show's Samantha Bee. From Ottawa, Ontario.

00:00 Intro
03:45 Samantha Bee didn’t watch late-night comedy until The Daily Show
05:03 How late-night comedy has changed since the days of Johnny Carson
06:01 How The Daily Show transformed from silly, whimsical comedy to being more political
07:06 Samantha Bee has always been a political person
07:31 How Samantha Bee wanted Full Frontal to kick open the barn doors
08:10 When George W. Bush was president, who could have imagined how much comedy material was ahead?
08:44 The time Ben Carson got lost backstage
09:16 And then Donald Trump won. That was the least funny thing that could have happened.
09:25 Jon Stewart decided to quit before Trump got elected
09:42 Donald Trump can’t win
10:21 The challenge of not being able to say Marjorie Taylor Greene is crazy
12:29 On using comedy to speak truth to power
13:15: Samantha Bee: I was very scrupulous about making sure everything was correct
14:02 The story about Jon Stewart being offered the host’s job on Meet the Press
14:44 Do Republicans watch late-night TV?
15:05 The role Samantha Bee played in late-night TV
16:35 Samantha Bee has no regrets
17:01 Did Democrats get a pass from Samantha Bee on Full Frontal?
17:28 It is tricky dealing with Democrat audiences
18:01 Samantha Bee: There are things to criticize with the Democratic Party
18:31 You don’t want to give the GOP or Donald Trump ammunition in their fight to win back the presidency
19:27 Samantha Bee: What it was like to see her work become soundbites on Tucker Carlson
19:59 When Trump went on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
22:08 When Kathy Griffin was cancelled for the Trump severed head photo
24:04 On the time Samantha Bee called Ivanka Trump the C-word
25:35 On what that episode taught her
26:24 How calling Ivanka Trump the C-word threatened a major media merger between Time Warner and AT&T
30:03 What she really thought when she apologized for using the C-word
31:06 Ivanka Trump texted Samantha Bee
31:49 On being one of the very few women to succeed in late-night comedy
33:00 How the media landscape is shifting and creative voices and new perspectives are no longer valued
33:29 “Making wallpaper for teenage boys”
34:15 TV Networks are trying to make programming that’s inoffensive and mindless
35:04 How being Canadian gave her a different viewpoint on what’s happening in American politics
35:27 How she offended the writers room at The Daily Show
37:19 What happened when didn’t know the words to the American national anthem
38:53 On the biggest difference between Americans and Canadians
41:08 On Family Day
42:53 Samantha Bee on Robert Kennedy Jr. running for the Democratic nomination for president
43:45 Samantha Bee on Joe Biden running again
45:06 What Samantha Bee thinks about people who run for president
45:56 On moving back to Canada
46:52 Samantha Bee on her big break
48:59 Samantha Bee on her worst job
49:51 On making The Detour with husband, Jason Jones
51:49 On using Full Frontal to address reproductive justice
52:10 When an audience member made Samantha Bee cry
53:04 How reproductive justice became an important focus for Samantha Bee
55:09 Her advice for Canada after witnessing the political decline in America
56:40 What will bring the left and the right together so they can talk to each other?
57:19 When someone told Samantha Bee they thought she was a She-Beast and the Ann Coulter of the Left
58:12 More people are in the centre of the political spectrum
59:10 How do you guard against polarization?
1:01:25 On other comedians complaining about cancel culture
1:02:02 Samantha Bee: What freedom of speech means to her
1:04:31 Samantha Bee owns bees
1:05:13 Freedoms versus privileges and intersectionality
1:05:54 The challenge of taking very serious issues and trying to broach them using jokes
1:09:16 How it’s a difficult time for the LGBTQ community right now
1:12:51 Samantha Bee on if she will ever run for office
1:15:00 Samantha Bee on changing your viewpoint and admitting when you’re wrong

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