The Daily Late Nightly Show (Who Loves Sam Bee?)

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The New Guy

You’re Fired

Trevor’s last guest this week is Lilly Singh

Mr. Continuity

Yes, we’re still obsessing over O.J. (framed by the way, guilty or not)

Larry’s last panelist this week- Paul F. Tompkin

Mr. Mainstream

Requiescat In Pace

Stephen Colbert delivers a swift kick to Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee and the other newly departed
by Sarah Burris, Salon
Thursday, Feb 4, 2016 11:24 AM EST

Sadly, however, the show filmed too early in the day to capture the sad loss of Rick Santorum.

First there was Rand Paul. Bless him, the man stood firm on his hopes of a shrinking the government. “Senator Paul should take some comfort in living up to his father’s legacy of also not being president.” Now, Colbert said about the bright side, Paul can focus on escaping whatever is nesting on his head. Paul famously took the tax code, threw it in a woodchipper and tried to cut it with a chainsaw. So it was fitting Colbert put Paul’s photo in a toaster. Farewell.

“Also tossed on the funeral pyre of politics this week was Martin O’Malley — or as you may know him, ‘Do I know him?’” Colbert joked about the candidate who hardly got any time at debates and who served as occasional eye-candy to the presidential race. “It seemed the high-fructose voters in Iowa couldn’t relate to a man in his 50s with abs like that.”

But that’s not all, there was also Mike Huckabee. He announced he was suspending his campaign not because of votes but because of illness. “Apparently, the voters are sick of me,” the Huckster said. Colbert remembered the bold strategy of showing up to defend law-breaking, homophobic county clerk Kim Davis. Huckabee was willing to go to jail for her, but really that was because he just needed a place to sleep.

Finally, Colbert remembered Jim Gilmore, which was probably the first time anyone remembered he was running this year at all. “When the votes were counted in Iowa, Gilmore won 12,” Colbert said. Ouch.

Stephen’s guests this week-

• Thursday 2/4: Michael Strahan, Samantha Bee, Wilco
• Friday 2/5: Bobby Cannavale, Donny Deutsch, Charles Kelley

Samantha Bee’s Full Frontal promises to bare all (and lose the desk)
by Elise Czajkowski, The Guardian
Wednesday 3 February 2016 13.13 EST

From clips shown at a press event on Tuesday, her point of view was clear quickly. An in-studio segment about a Democratic debate had feminist overtones, referring to the “bone-deep sexism of the American people” after a clip of Hillary Clinton, before turning her attention to a Kansas senator’s recent dress code for women in a bit that let her get a bit blue.

A field piece shot on location in Jordan was as well-produced as any news segment. If the message of the piece was slightly heavy-handed – Syrian refugees are people too! – it was both engagingly told and goofy enough to justify its spot on a comedy show. Bee spoke afterwards about her interest in exploring serious stories that affect predominantly women, like the Zika virus, even though they are “not inherently comedic”.

Like Oliver, she has an outsider’s perspective – the Toronto-born comedian holds dual citizenship, an edge that gives her discussions of US politics and policy a tone that is both globally aware and regionally sympathetic. (She hopes to speak with Justin Trudeau, the new prime minister of Canada, when he visits the States in March.) She also seems keen to take advantage of her weekly schedule to produce longer, more in-depth segments, something Oliver has done since his weekly HBO show debuted in 2014.
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Full Frontal will evolve over time, something Bee and her producers said they were looking forward to. “The first thing that we wanted to do was create a show that really came from our gut,” she explained after the press conference. “We wanted to build a show that came from a very deep place in our souls, and with jokes on top of that. So I’m really looking forward to putting a show out on the 8th, coming back into the office on Tuesday, and going, OK, now what? That’ll be where we really start to figure out the show.”

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee premieres on 8 February at 10.30pm EST.

So, once a week. We will cover that.