Late-night host Samantha Bee discusses how the remote COVID-19 production environment forced Full Frontal to alter its weekly production timeline.
Opinion
Samantha Bee: Facebook has caused immense damage globally and should be deleted
“Boy, I would I would just delete Facebook. I mean, I never was a Facebook person, but it's just done so much damage, not just in our own country, but across the world.”
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Samantha Bee Predicts TV Networks Will Shift to Cheaper Reality Programming
“They've lost so much ad revenue. They're probably going to try and start making shows more cheaply, and that doesn't necessarily mean that they will be great. There'll be a lot of reality in our lives for the next little while.”
Disclosure
Samantha Bee Prefers Staff Keep Microphones Unmuted During Video Meetings
“Lots of people mute their microphones because they're like rattling bags, or they have kids who are homeschooling, and it's nice, and it's respectful, but at some point I was like, please stop muting. I'd really rather hear the crunching bag or something than …”
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Full Frontal Shares Studio Space With John Oliver and Dr. Oz
“We literally share our studio space with John Oliver's show and Dr. Oz show, and so it's much more difficult. We don't control our own environment, so it's going to be very difficult for us to go back to the studio”
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Samantha Bee Proved Backyard iPhone Footage Was Broadcast-Quality to TBS
“We just started shooting stuff, and it really turned out to be a proof of concept to the network that we could shoot in our backyard, and that it would look good, and that it could be broadcast quality, even though it's shot on an iPhone.”
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Samantha Bee: Full Frontal Cuts 30-Minute Interviews to Five Minutes
“The show itself, the entirety of the show is 21 minutes. So when I interview someone, we talk for half an hour, and then we end up using five minutes of that whole conversation.”