Amidst Women’s Rights Clash, Sam Bee Fights Back With Comedy, Truth, And

July 27, 2022 7:01 PM

MSNBC's series Mavericks spends a half hour with Samantha Bee in Amidst Women’s Rights Clash, Sam Bee Fights Back With Comedy, Truth, And Late Night Breakthroughs. This is a great interview looking into Bee's career and growth across time, with a lot of introspection and insight. It was sadly recorded shortly before Full Frontal With Samantha Bee was cancelled after its seventh season [Variety].
posted by hippybear (8 comments total)

What a ridiculous time to cancel the show. Such a bad decision, unless you like it, you know, when nationwide lawmakers are happy to let people die on the regular for having the kind of bodies that can and often don't want to have other things grow inside them. Sorry this comment wasn't funnier. Fart noise.
posted by lauranesson at 12:24 AM on July 28, 2022 [11 favorites]

(Thank you, Bee, et al. You did really good work and I hope you land well. Or that some other network gets their head on straight and hires you all whole.)
posted by lauranesson at 12:28 AM on July 28, 2022 [5 favorites]

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posted by interogative mood at 3:41 AM on July 28, 2022

Oh wow. I hadn’t seen that she was cancelled. Fuck.

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posted by amanda at 6:35 AM on July 28, 2022

Late-Night Television Is Moving Backward
posted by jenfullmoon at 8:12 AM on July 28, 2022 [1 favorite]

Samantha Bee's cancellation hints at tough times for women and POC in late night TV
posted by jenfullmoon at 11:48 AM on July 28, 2022

I have a distinct anger about this. She is so at the top of her game, and she was totally innovative during the pandemic television era and we're entering a period of real political turmoil. It's like, was she silenced on some level, too provocative in an atmosphere of enclosing censorship? Was she somehow losing viewers in her timeslot? I watched her religiously, often first-run on broadcast because DISH feeds numbers back to channels and I want to be counted as Live And Present for her.

She channeled so much of my anger... and I don't know where I will turn now.
posted by hippybear at 9:26 PM on July 29, 2022 [2 favorites]

Honestly, it sounds like it was the merger/money and they just cut shows. Might not have happened had the merger not gone on. Same with say, CW shows being canceled this year.
posted by jenfullmoon at 10:17 AM on July 30, 2022