Daily Show The new semi-late night show Full Frontal, a political satire show starring ex-Daily Show Correspondent Samantha Bee, launched its first episode on TBS this past Monday night. The show will air weekly instead of daily which should mean Full Frontal will be able to pick only the best of that week's political snafus instead of being forced to pad their comedy bits with celebrity fodder.
The show can be likened to HBO's Last Week Tonight featuring fellow ex-Daily Show correspondent John Oliver, with its hilariously angry one-liners about the current political climate, except where Oliver sits behind a desk, Bee simply stands.
"As a viewer, I am sort of sick of seeing someone sit behind a desk. I actually like using my body a little bit more. I find if I'm really stationary, sometimes all the comedy goes into my face and then it's a really weird performance of me just pulling crazy faces," Bee explained to the Guardian.
Full Frontal will not include guest interviews as most similar shows do. Instead, the bits will mostly center around pre-recorded field segments. During this premiere however, Bee mostly commented on news recordings. Such was the case when she bashed the attending candidates of the most recent GOP debate for talking about Donald Trump instead of not taking advantage of the that it was the only debate he had not been to.
During her tirade, the Full Frontal host made it a point to say that she was not going to talk about Donald Trump because he was not at the debate. Of course, Bee also pointed out that, "At this point it is literally impossible to avoid hearing about him. If you lived under a rock at the bottom of the Marianas Trench, you would still overhear a discussion of Trump's effect on the GOP from an Angler fish that looks like Wolf Blitzer."
While you might not be able to actually, consider Full Frontal a late night show since it comes on at 10:30 p.m. before Conan, Bee is still the only woman hosting a show that can be compared to those who are hosted by other ex-Daily Show correspondents like The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and Last Week Tonight. As USA Today, puts it, "A voice that wasn't being heard, a perspective that wasn't being seen, now gets a chance to break through," and that is a truly refreshing thing.
