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| You know, recently I shared the devastating news that Full Frontal with Samantha Bee has been cancelled by TBS. | |
| Now, you might be asking questions like, why are you reading news from five years ago? | |
| Or, who the hell is Samantha Bee? | |
| But if you're a fan of this show, you might not realize Samantha and I have a little bit of a history together, because my producers Obviously hate me, as you know. | |
| They periodically make me watch feminist comedians do their best imitation of a suffering cat, which of course, I mean, you know, their stand-up comedy routines is what they call them. | |
| The very first video in this Try to Laugh series featured Samantha Bee. | |
| You know, we were ahead of the curve. | |
| We shot this back in 2020. | |
| Let's just say that her jokes have aged as well as a fine glass of milk. | |
| Watch. | |
| So my producer suggested that I watch and review some feminist comedy bits and he suggested this because evidently he hates my guts, which is understandable. | |
| I would hate me too if I wasn't me. | |
| I am me and I hate me, so you know. | |
| But the thing is, I did actually watch some feminist comedy in anticipation of doing this little YouTube video, but much of it was so bad. | |
| I'm a feminist. | |
| And usually I'm not an advocate of street harassment and stuff like that, except from men that wear grey tracksuits. | |
| Just so, so, so bad. | |
| I remember when Kate Middleton announced her pregnancy. | |
| I was like, I wonder if she'll keep it. | |
| Who knows? | |
| That I thought maybe the fruit was hanging a little too low. | |
| It's a little too easy. | |
| And there's all kinds of euphemism packed into that last sentence that you can get into later. | |
| But then I thought, if I'm gonna review feminist comedy, I shouldn't go for the obscure ones. | |
| I should focus on a feminist comedian who is successful, well-known, allegedly talented, and that's why I am going to focus on Samantha Bee. | |
| You know, Samantha Bee has her own comedy show on Lifetime or whatever it's on. | |
| And she's hailed by the media as brilliant and hilarious and genius and so on. | |
| That's what the media says about her. | |
| I figure she's the best of the best when it comes to woke female comedians. | |
| So let me give her a shot. | |
| We're gonna watch some Samantha Bee together and more than reviewing it, I think I want to see if I can find a reason to laugh. | |
| I want to laugh at a Samantha Bee joke. | |
| I want to see if I can do that today. | |
| I'll try my hardest. | |
| So let's watch this together. | |
| Let's start with this. | |
| We'll take a look. | |
| Okay. | |
| Meatpacking workers often contend with cramped conditions, grueling labor, and long hours, so it's unsurprising that plants have become hotspots for COVID-19. | |
| If we want to keep our food supply safe, we should first keep our workers safe. | |
| So naturally, the president isn't. | |
| Following aggressive lobbying from the meat industry, Trump issued an executive order aimed at reopening meat processing plants. | |
| Look, It's not shocking the president leapt into action to save meat. | |
| Because burgers? | |
| You in danger, girl. | |
| Okay, um... So I think there were some jokes in there. | |
| I can't be sure. | |
| And this might be part of Samantha Bee's genius. | |
| That she tells jokes and nobody knows that they're jokes. | |
| So she's deconstructing comedy. | |
| That's what I'm told. | |
| That's the thing about female comedians. | |
| Samantha Bee, Hannah Gadsby, they're always deconstructing comedy rather than just telling funny jokes. | |
| And I don't mean to imply that women aren't funny. | |
| I would never imply that. | |
| I, in fact, am stating it explicitly. | |
| Just kidding. | |
| Not really, but sort of. | |
| Okay, let's keep going. | |
| From Ohio to New York, Michigan to California, this morning the beef shortage at Wendy's is spreading. | |
| The company with that unforgettable catchphrase decades ago is now having trouble finding the beef. | |
| You're out of beef, then? | |
| Out of patties? | |
| It's embarrassing that the Where's the Beef place is out of beef. | |
| It'd be like if someone at Taco Bell was caught thinking inside the bun. | |
| Okay, let's stop right there. | |
| This is a professional comedian, folks. | |
| She makes millions of dollars telling jokes. | |
| And yet she's never actually told one, so far as I can tell. | |
| And so I'm starting to figure out that when people say Samantha Bee is funny, which I've never actually heard anyone say that, but theoretically, if they do say that, they don't mean it on the scale of comedians, right? | |
| They're using a different scale. | |
| What they mean is that she's funny for a feminist. | |
| Which is like saying a corn dog is healthy for carnival food. | |
| So maybe if we understand it on that scale, we get into the mind of a feminist, maybe it becomes funny. | |
| So let's keep going. | |
| With some food shortages and increased prices, the Federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is more necessary than ever. | |
| About 38 million people rely on SNAP benefits to feed their families, and last month the USDA announced it would increase overall benefits 40% to give families more money to buy food. | |
| Unfortunately, many food stamp households were left out of the benefit expansion because they were already receiving the maximum amount. | |
| Now, while Democrats are trying to raise benefits by 15%, Republicans are attempting to block that change. | |
| Just for context, the maximum benefit for a family of four is only $646 per month. | |
| For Republicans, giving hungry families an extra hundred bucks during a worldwide pandemic is too big of an ask. | |
| Both because they deeply, passionately don't give a s**t about poor people, and because Steve Mnuchin needs it to fashion sheets for his bed. | |
| My God. | |
| My God in heaven, deliver me, Lord. | |
| Let's try a different video. | |
| Maybe this was, this could have been a bad outing. | |
| You know, it's, it's, uh, that's fair. | |
| Like, not, not, not, It's not going to be great every single time for a comedian. | |
| I understand that. | |
| You know, it's a tough job, I have to imagine. | |
| So let's be fair. | |
| We'll go to a different video. | |
| We'll try this. | |
| OK, let's give this a shot here. | |
| Still reporting from the woods, I had hoped that as we moved into spring, the forest would start to look green and full of life. | |
| Instead, it's totally infested by gnats. | |
| Oh, they're landing on my face now. | |
| Stop there. | |
| Kill me. | |
| Okay. | |
| Given recent SCOTUS wins, it feels like the pendulum may be swinging back to a time when the nuclear family was situated at the center of American life, where real conversation, learning, and growth began at home with your family gathered around the table. | |
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| And given how afraid I am of the grocery store, that's how I'm getting half my protein. | |
| As the great American lockdown continues, we have reason to be grateful. | |
| Social distancing is working! | |
| So naturally, the question on everyone's minds is, when can the country reopen? | |
| Unfortunately, not yet. | |
| Look, I know it's hard. | |
| I've been home so long I got horny just thinking about dining in at a Pizza Hut. | |
| Okay. | |
| This is worse, this is honestly worse than I thought. | |
| I'm actually, I'm plunging into despair right now. | |
| I am losing my will to live every second that I watch this. | |
| I want to cry. | |
| I do. | |
| I don't even know why. | |
| I'm just, I'm overcome by this wave of just total emotional desolation. | |
| That's how bad this is. | |
| It is making me long for the sweet embrace of death. | |
| I wish I was dead right now. | |
| I just had this image while I was watching this. | |
| I had this image in my head of a guy burning to death in a house fire. | |
| And I was jealous of that guy. | |
| Because at least he's not watching Samantha Bee. | |
| Let's try. | |
| Okay, we're gonna abandon this. | |
| Let's go. | |
| Here's another video. | |
| Let's give this one a shot. | |
| Third time's a charm, right? | |
| That's the same goes. | |
| Here we go. | |
| I don't know about you, but for me, it's crucial to stay productive during quarantine. | |
| For example, at the start of the year, I bought a journal to keep tabs on every book I've read and every film I've seen. | |
| But now I'm just keeping a list of every porn I've watched that's troubled me. | |
| Starting with Hardcore Kissing. | |
| It's not what you think. | |
| You know what? | |
| Maybe—okay. | |
| Maybe she's having a hard time with coronavirus material, because it's—let's be fair, it can be hard to come up with funny jokes around the coronavirus. So let's, we'll go back, | |
| we'll go back a few months, just to be fair. Let's find a video of her from before all | |
| this. So this is from last July, and we'll give this one a shot. Let's take a look. | |
| In the past week, our beloved president of the United States of Rhodesia has done so many | |
| racisms, we don't have time to cover them all. So if you want to hear about Trump's social media | |
| summit, his threatened ICE raids, and his failed effort to weaponize the census, turn to TBS2 for | |
| full frontal after dark, where I rant in my sleep about what a prick our president is. | |
| Then stay tuned for Old Sheldon. | |
| But for now, let's focus on the thr- Did you get- It's cause- There's a- There's a show called Young Sheldon. | |
| And so she's saying- There's a show called Old... What if there's a show called Old... It's not Young Sheldon. | |
| It's Old Sheldon. | |
| That's a joke. | |
| Let's focus on the three racistest things Trump's been up to lately, starting with this. | |
| President Trump, unapologetic, defending his racist Twitter tirade aimed at four Democratic Congresswomen of color, after telling them Sunday to go back to help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came. | |
| Sadly, the only thing that should surprise anyone is that he wrote, from which they came, to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition. | |
| Way to go, Shakespeare! | |
| Now return your head to the orifice from which it came. | |
| Of course, it wasn't long before... I'm trying. | |
| This is not a bit at this point. | |
| I want to laugh at a Samantha Bee joke. | |
| I do. | |
| That is on my bucket list. | |
| Some people want to climb Mount Everest. | |
| I want to find a funny Samantha Bee joke. | |
| That's all I want to do with my life now. | |
| I want to be able to say out loud, I want to be able to say this, have you heard that hilarious Samantha Bee joke? | |
| And then I want the person I'm talking to to say, did you say hilarious Samantha Bee joke? | |
| And then I go, yes, you sexist. | |
| What, you don't think women are funny? | |
| Well, listen to this, and then I'll repeat the joke, and we'll all have a good laugh. | |
| That's what I want, and it will end sexism once and for all. | |
| That is my goal. | |
| It's the only thing I want to do with my life now. | |
| It is my life's work. | |
| I will find the joke. | |
| Let's keep looking. | |
| We'll go to a new video. | |
| Here we go. | |
| I'm feeling good about this. | |
| Okay, this is a Greta Thunberg-related thing, so there could be some good comedy here. | |
| Let's take a look. | |
| To most of America, I'm Samantha Bee, the comedian. | |
| Samantha Bee, the style icon. | |
| Samantha Bee, the author of the 12th most popular line of self-published dinosaur erotica on Amazon Canada. | |
| But at home, I'm just mom. | |
| From my own parenting experience, I can tell you there's nothing more terrifying than a teenage girl. | |
| And right now, one teenage girl in particular is scaring the crap out of all of us. | |
| What's your message to world leaders today? | |
| My message is that we'll be watching you. | |
| And she means it too! | |
| This morning I woke up and she was standing over my bed. | |
| That, of course, is Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist who's been traveling the world with one simple message. | |
| She's just a girl standing in front of a group of world leaders, asking them to do something before the whole planet melts and we all die. | |
| You all come to us young people for hope. | |
| How dare you? | |
| For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. | |
| How dare you continue to look away? | |
| And come here saying that you're doing enough when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight. | |
| The only thing scarier than a 16 year old girl is a 16 year old girl with an agenda who knows how to hold a grudge. | |
| Greta Thunberg terrifies me and I love her for it. | |
| Okay. | |
| Samantha kind of ruined it there, but when she started trying to tell jokes, but I did I, you know, I did crack a smile at the Greta Thunberg clip. | |
| Is it Toonberg? | |
| Thunberg. | |
| Thunberg. | |
| Toonberg. | |
| I've been saying Thunberg this whole time. | |
| I'm going with Thunberg. | |
| That one gets me, that clip gets me every time I have to admit. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| It does. | |
| It's a little, it's a little funny. | |
| Um, so we might have to count that as my Samantha Bee laugh. | |
| I might just have to call it and say that that, that qualifies, but let's see. | |
| We'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll plunge forward one more time. | |
| Let's give this a shot. | |
| She doesn't want to inspire us or give us hope. | |
| She wants to give us nightmares because we deserve them. | |
| Bretta is bringing something very important to the discourse about climate change. | |
| Shame. | |
| She's traveled all over the world, ripping into our craven leaders like a miniature Don Rickles in braids. | |
| And you know what? | |
| It is working! | |
| Her international shaming tour has led the EU to commit hundreds of billions of euros to combating climate change. | |
| She got the British Parliament to declare a climate emergency and pledge to zero out its carbon emissions by 2050. | |
| And she got the band Scorpions to finally stop rocking everyone like a hurricane. | |
| Hurricanes are dangerous! | |
| Uh... | |
| No. That... we're... you know what? | |
| We're just gonna... I'm gonna call it. | |
| I can't do this anymore. | |
| That's, there's only so much punishment a man can take. | |
| This is like, this is like someone gave a microphone and a laugh track to my drunk aunt at Thanksgiving. | |
| And I just, I can't do it. | |
| So the Greta Thunberg thing, that counts. | |
| That's my laugh. | |
| I did it. | |
| I'm done. |