Full Frontal with Samantha Bee is amazing

Jo Miller, the executive producer and head writer of “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” since its debut in 2016, has parted ways with the show, the network confirmed on Monday.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/arts/television/samantha-bee-showrunner.html

show has sadly become drastically uneven and still has not got past being patchy as to when it airs. when it's good it's great but the celebrity musical numbers and many of the produced bits are particularly bad. last episode's attempt to engage the acting crew seemed a bit desperate; they need to incorporate them but shuttling from talking head to talking head ain't gonna work.

Hello! First post from a random mutt wandering by. Last week a Samantha Bee show producer spent an hour with me scoping out a story...

Speaking of patchy, that's my byline where I write about furries. Lately there's a bit of a nazi problem in that community, yes that's a word for it lately too...

There's a new book about them out yesterday from Cleis Press. And speaking of the nazi thing here's tags for it (one) (two) if you care.

The news site is a silly hobby thing, but interesting stuff has happened with it. The nazi thing is yet another push into geek groups (along with gaming, sci fi, comics) so we had some infiltrators document them from the inside, which synched with the Charlottesville nazi marching. I documented a couple of them on the scene of violence. We had them do "swatting" against a furry convention with a 5-figure security cost. And there's been more in the news like another convention getting ruined by them, I broke a story about it that Rolling Stone picked up. With all this going on I would be into stepping up the game by learning from peers in indie reporting.

welcome, sparkledog.

your post is really, really interesting, and i bet a lot of people on ILX would want to know more. this isn't the most heavily visited thread - you should check out the the alt-right thread.

(which, to be clear, is a thread for discussing the alt-right, not a thread for alt-righters!)

that's what an alt-righter would say tho

hahahaha
that's where they get you

altfurry fascism. what a world.

yeah, welcome sparkledog; look around you might find some good conversations to join in.

Welcome Sparkledog!

show is still on point

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwSQHAt3lSc

Has it just done the same thing as last year and officially launched a new season then gone on a few weeks holiday? Seems to have been missing since valentine's Day which at least IMDB has as Season 3 episode 2.
Is there any logic behind that. Like why call it a new season and then take a break? I thought the old season was pretty much ongoing up to that point anyway.

seems like they basically run the show through most of the year (season 1 was 39 weeks total, season 2 33) with small breaks throughout. "Season" just seems to mean "year": season 1 runs from Feb. 8, 2016-Feb. 8 2017.

Yeah figured taht was what made most sense that you start counting again at a specific date. Cos does seem to be the pattern that the break comes almost immediately after the year mark passes.
Seem to be back on 14th March from what I saw

was on March 7th, damn is this show confusing to follow schedule wise

yup. super annoying still. plus they do specials like this upcoming Puerto Rico thing which is probably throwing it off

Still good! May 2 episode was great

still good is right

idk why i hate all comedy news format shows except this one

Maybe cuz it’s good my man?

Hold on, did Samantha Bee just get pressured into apologizing for calling Ivanka a cunt? What a pussy.

NEW: White House demands TBS cancel Samantha Bee’s show https://t.co/u9ATGwDxZz

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) May 31, 2018

this is what it's going to fucking be like from now on? nothing but whataboutisms all fucking day . i hate this shit

Michelle Wolff had the right idea, don't back down, double down.

She shouldn't have apologized. WTF.

I mean it goes without saying that most of the women in that administration are feckless cunts.

nothing but whataboutisms all fucking day

Yup cause their collective mentality is that of a 5 yr old

the only justification I can see for Bee apologizing is that the network threatened to cancel her show if she didn't and she didn't to screw over her entire workforce like that.

*didn't want to screw over

The only justification. Maybe she should've just kept it safe and went redux: Aunt Coulter.

If the network threatened to cancel her show and she relented, then she's stupid, because they're just going to do it again if they don't do it anyway.

Should've gone with "feckless...wherever..."

kinda wish bee had doubled down on her right to say this word or at least accompanied her apology by noting that what she said was not even in the same galaxy as roseanne's remark, but we live in a deeply fucking stupid country that elected donald fucking trump so

Yeah would think it was a precedent one didn't want to set if one is a satire show.
JUst wondering if that devalues her doing the show.
But then I'm used to the word cunt in English usage and heard it was harder in U.S. usage. But still it is true of the whole family so can a defamation charge be brought against it? Thought that was one of the hinge points.

Ivanka is complete and utter trash of course but I'm not happy that SB is just tossing a gift to the perpetually outraged right like this

But who the fuck cares about them? They're perpetually outraged! You think they're going to just shut up now that they smell blood and want a body of their own?

Just wondering if that devalues her doing the show.

Yes. Because who knows what they are nixing behind the scenes. If you back down for a generic insult under pressure from the White House, what else will you back off?

i agree, apologizing does nothing, which is why it's an idiotic move on TBS' part (I'm assuming it wasn't Bee's idea). nothing short of cancellation will appease the chuds.

Michelle Wolff had the right idea, don't back down, double down.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, May 31, 2018 3:33 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think Samantha Bee just might? I mean it's a pretty traditional comedy trope to walk back the blunt phrasing and then twist the knife back in...

I'm not reading her apology so maybe there's less room for that but idk I don't think of SB as being of weaker moral character than MW or any other comic

Her apology is totally weak.

I would like to sincerely apologize to Ivanka Trump and to my viewers for using an expletive on my show to describe her last night. It was inappropriate and inexcusable. I crossed a line, and I deeply regret it.

— Samantha Bee (@iamsambee) May 31, 2018

What a wuss.

I like Samantha Bee a lot, but she is flat wrong to call Ivanka a cunt.

Cunts are powerful, beautiful, nurturing and honest.

— Sally Field (@sally_field) May 31, 2018

Yeah, way to go Sally Field, you have more balls than Bee.

At least the apology was for the use of an expletive and not the content. All these people embracing being a deplorable are all of a sudden super hyped on "civility."

Civility is the new Personal Responsibility.

Look what happened to annoying Kathy Griffin, who took a hundred hits, backed down, ended up in a worse position, and then immediately regretted it, because the president and his entire family are huge pieces of shits.

Civility Under Non-Negotiable Threat.

Everyone is living in a fucking migraine.

does a double n make it more powerful?

i didn't care for how everyone started acting all pearl-clutchy about "cunt" a few years ago

i can think of few ppl on earth who deserve the designation more than SHS

It's because oeople in the US stopped watching Guy Ritchie movies.

lol