Full Frontal with Samantha Bee is amazing

did anyone else watch the first episode? i went in with moderate expectations because while i liked samantha bee on the daily show, i never really thought of her as a standout colbert/carell figure. i was completely wrong. she was born for this role. the first episode surpasses much of what the daily show did, and it completely trounces the trevor noah version. a few of their gags fell a little short (although fwiw others in the room were busting a gut at the same stuff), but for the most part it was just hilarious. the focus appears to be 100% politics, which is fine with me. it relies heavily on the Show a video clip/make jokes Daily Show formula, but she's just much funnier than her competition, in a way that seems natural and unscripted. there was also a little short film about jeb bush (linked below) that started off strange and went into a completely surreal, brilliant place. also, samantha bee is kind of vulgar in a delightful way that's simultaneously raunchier and less juvenile than john oliver.

tl;dr i almost want to say that this is the new daily show you thought you'd never have again, but really i think it's better than that. oliver's show seems like it paved the way for this one.

if you have cable (or a friend's pw teehee) you can watch the first episode here: http://www.tbs.com/videos/full-frontal-with-samantha-bee/season-1/episode-1/episode-1.html

if not, most of the episode is on their youtube channel. i was going to embed these but it might not be a good idea to have 9 youtube videos above the fold on what could be a thread with hundreds of thousands of posts if there is any justice left in this terrible world, so here are the links instead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3mRe-7ra0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZmxdVHIes4

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSmwzj8X3F8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEWevb4pByU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO4nGExCFDc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quoPqs3xccE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhV5aOrz55E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iET5OPnlyGw

noooooooooooooo

i swear i tried to format those so that they were just text links. i've let samantha bee down. now this thread will NEVER get 100,000s of posts

i'll fix. please hold.

Hint: in future, leave the 's' in the 'https'.

i did! or at least, i thought i did. thanks mod.

did that work?

it did. thanks!

I thought it was superb (and hilarious), but when she said something about next week at the end and I realized she wasn't doing a nightly show I felt punched in the gut.

The clips I've seen are great. Is this on Hulu or any other streaming thingy?

I understand if she went to nightly she'd be obligated to pad the show with guests/performances, but I wish there was a nice in-between, where maybe it could be on 2-3 times per week instead of just once. at least during election season, when there's such a surfeit of material (it's been simply tragic that Stewart and "Colbert" the character haven't been around chronicling the lunacy of the past few months).

i'm ok with it being a weekly thing if the show maintains this quality. it would be comforting to be able to check it out when i get home from work every night, the way the old daily show/colbert routine would help me erase unpleasant feelings from the rest of the day, but like (spoilers!) frodo getting on that one boat to cross that one ocean at the end of LOTR, that age has passed.

if you collected all the segments from the full frontal, daily show with trevor noah, and the nightly show with larry wilmore, and arranged them all from least funny to most funny, the samantha bee stuff would be at the very top, even with just one episode's worth of material. so impressive.

Yeah, otm. Watching this, I grew increasingly baffled that she wasn't approached to host TDS, but this format suits her so much better.

the way the old daily show/colbert routine would help me erase unpleasant feelings from the rest of the day

Wilmore's doing this for me; he's been on a serious roll lately.

i gotta circle back to his show - i haven't given it much of a chance since the first month or so, and i'm sure it's a lot better now.

I grew increasingly baffled that she wasn't approached to host TDS, but this format suits her so much better.

yeah, she would have been great with TDS but it's so nice that she doesn't have to bother with doing interviews (the worst part of TDS and colbert report).

Her Nerdist interview made it sound like she had no interest in taking over TDS. She and Jason had already decided they'd leave the same time Jon did, and their Tbs projects just came along at the perfect time.

first ep was very good, and i'm glad it's once a week.

The Wilmore show is 1000% better and funnier now than it was a year ago, or even 6 months ago.

as noted on the Nightly Show thread

This is really good!

And i will tape a few nightly shows. the first three months was patently bad.

Sorry, I do not feel that way about the Nightly Show. I think it is still very bad. The most tolerable/enjoyable bits are when Larry is just talking to the camera. However whenever they deviate from that...

i will give it another shot, but i just didn't think he was very funny. i liked what he chose to talk about and when he took a stance, i agreed, but when it came time to say something humorous, i just never lol'd. but i will try again!

second episode, just as good if not better. the only problem i have with this show is that i want more of it

yep. so fast!

thought about posting her Kasich thing, but it was more righteous than funny

she is absolutely killing it right now

definitely. ppl shouldn't sleep on this show, totally worthwhile

It's completely satisfying to watch her show up Oliver and the Daily Show. I like Oliver but her takedown of Trump vis a vis the RIP GOP thing this week was so much sharper.

Agree that it's the best show of the three, which makes me fear for its security (at 10:30 on a Monday night on TBS).

"10:30," "Monday," and "TBS" are a terrible combination. They couldn't make it less likely for me to see or be able to see it if they tried.

You know what all TV channels should do? Just replay the previous night's talk shows and whatnot the next morning. People are all passing around "viral" clips anyway, everything will be just as timely/funny, there's nothing better to watch in the morning and they don't have to pay to make new content. Conan, Colbert, Kimmel, whomever, just put it on in the morning, too. Who the hell is watching TV 10:30 Monday night? (Granted, I don't know who is watching Monday morning, either, but at least more people are awake.)

They may not be allowed to air certain shows in the daytime due to content restrictions.

Yeah, they should change that, too.

it's a pain in the ass to watch anything at the exact time it airs, that's why we have stuff like On Demand and Hulu now

yeah most of the time i watch it on On Demand a few days later

But it's only 9:30 for you Josh!

True enough, but also don't have cable.

Full episode on the Youtubes: https://youtu.be/nTnPCF9OWHM

this is holding up very well so far

i agree, pleasantly surprised. honestly thought i'd get sick of Bee's persona fast but it's working for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPJHdfzZ5rU

this show isn't incredibly rhetorically sophisticated (by which i mean, it's very blunt and didactic), but it is smart. i like their multi-part piece on the christian right, which argues that politicized evangelism was always about racial identity, and that the support of the religious right for trump is not by any means out of historical character.

As much as I enjoy SB snarking in front of photoshops, the little filmed pieces of this are the highlights for me. The Bergman JEB! film haunts me to this day. I can't think of a better satire show at the moment (recommendationsS), not least because she's not afraid to get rightously angry.

her team is excellent and poised to get real famous.

The Halloween episode was Samantha at her best. Love her.

Her young millennial impression is on point

http://www.slate.com/blogs/schooled/2016/06/17/the_upper_west_side_is_new_york_s_latest_school_integration_battleground.html

Who doesn't like a good school segregator?

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/15069097_1931484700412500_2876756555909321460_o.jpg

https://www.facebook.com/fullfrontalsamb/photos/a.1771924126368559.1073741828.1765033567057615/1931484700412500/?type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/fullfrontalsamb/videos/1928453617382275/

Who's watching tonight's show with Glenn Beck? I'm excited, I like her so much!

oh dang, i'm definitely gonna watch (tomorrow, though, or whenever it goes up online)

i wish her show could be on every night

So, like, her being in favor of segregated NYC schools isn't a deal breaker?

idk i can't stand almost any political tv comedy shows and bee's is often really well written

y'all seem to be mischaracterizing it

It's possible, I haven't watched in over a year. I probably never laughed but I occasionally respected the reportage/angles.

i'll admit that i didn't even get to the end of the segment in which this thing apparently happened bc it seemed to take that highly misinterpreted story as a jumping off point

the show is v funny and cathartic and takes p smart positions often (even though it doesn't have a 100 percent batting average see "hug a nazi") and isn't really very much about raging? at least not as much as john oliver is, almost chewing through his increasingly shitty analogies

it is def better than Oliver I will grant that

Is TBS basic cable? Is this live? Does it carry a rating? I have no idea.

i imagine i'd like it more than john oliver bc sam bee isn't nearly as grating but i've tried with all these shows and it's just impossible for me, it really is just screaming to me

john oliver/his writers are weirdly obsessed with animal jokes, ranging from benign to gross

No, Trevor, you may nowt write another joke about the Alpine Grizzlies! Bad Trevor!!

lol

I like John Oliver's show.

the Dasha video he poked fun at last week was funnier than he's ever been tbh

xp Josh - it does have a rating, but it's bleeped out on the show. On YouTube they remove the bleeps

So how is that her fault?

this is the real problem here imo. the left/liberals have trump derangement syndrome and their comedy is shit.

That said I don’t watch any of these shows because I read the news and work in DC so it’s mostly just old information with a lot of mugging.

The entire Jon Stewart diaspora is basically a list of very funny, talented people I can’t be bothered to keep up with. That goes for Colbert too.

Just so I'm clear: Calling a woman a "cunt" is perfectly fine if you oppose her politically. Or is this exclusively a liberal privilege? pic.twitter.com/exEvKuxZLu

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) June 1, 2018

How's Dennis doing?

jim in vancouver’s post 15 hours ago is sorta hilarious when read after that stupid tweet

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this is the real problem here imo. the left/liberals have trump derangement syndrome and their comedy is shit._


You’ll always have the emoji movie. Also treeship was funnier than you.

Like it's part of this awful twitter/media condition we have now where we are addicted to getting outraged about the peripheral while avoiding addressing the core because it affords easier opportunity for owns.

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive)

to be fair there is not really anything most of us can do at this point to "address the core". everybody i know is fucked up and crazy and i'm disinclined to judge. if twitter outrage keeps you from killing yourself in utter despair go for it.

this place is almost as boring as liberal comedy

But you keep it spicy by reposting Glenn Greenwald and Dennis Perrin tweets.

guys its TEARING US APART

And she concluded her show with a wink at the very profanity that landed her in trouble: “Good night, everyone. See you next … Wednesday!”

har har

wait Dennis Perrin has only 957 followers? I thought he was a big deal or something

only here on ilxor dot com, much to our collective dismay

Michelle wolf took a dig at bee on her 2nd episode of the break (“feckless cunt host” was the quote). Tho she sort of ran it back by the end of the ep

wolf’s show is nigh unwatchable but good for her i guess

Only watched the first episode and ... hoping it finds its stride someday.

Wolfs show also has the same lame pan to DJ/band thing as colbert any time she cracks a joke. I wish that trend would die as it makes me feel like my iq is decreasing

Like the shows scripted, yer dj’s shock and awe is a performance + he looks like he just walked out of a supreme endo hotbox sesh

i admit, i kinda love Michelle Wolf. she's just winsome.

Only watched the first episode and ... hoping it finds its stride someday.

― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Thursday, June 7, 2018 6:32 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i admit i'm dismissing it early and i hope it gets good

We watched the first episode, and every time it felt like we were being yelled out they made a joke about viewers probably feeling like they were being yelled at. Don't know what to think about that.

folks is it wrong to support michelle wolf and want her to succeed but at the same time refuse to watch her show because her voice is like nails on a chalkboard to you

MW's stand up is strong. The pre-recorded pieces are meh. Her voice is whatever, I only cringe sometimes because I can tell that other people hate it.

I don't mind her voice, it is what it is, but there was one bit in the first episode with that other comedian where they were on a couch literally yelling at us.

I thought the Amazon Echo lunchmeat thing was hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBStCs2TOfE

I do like when MW puts on the Elizabeth Holmes fake voice.

The me too skit was funny in episode 2

One of my qualms with wolfs show is her segments like “cute animal videos and fails” or whatever, which feels like someone is YouTubing for me and that’s terrible. Thankfully she used that segment to tear down Roseanne instead

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WsUycrAtN7c

i find michelle wolf's voice to be weirdly compelling

also find it endearing/cool that apparently she used to be a collegiate track athlete and is really into ultramarathons?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdX6p_JQw_g

loved this, show could just be descriptions of alex jones imo

Show’s still good

i want to live inside the funk that plays when you get an answer right on her game app

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

still routinely enjoying this show lol

I still watch this every week. I catch bits and pieces of The Daily Show, Colbert and Seth Myers (the monologues) from the night before or like on the weekend when I am cooking and although I like all of those there is way, way too much overlap in political jokes. Hasan Minhaj, John Oliver, Sam Bee and weekly formats are so much better for fresher political takes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFBkN9M_Tk0

thought this was great, enjoyed the reveal of sam as a teenage judas priest superfan

aww cute