Here’s How Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Would Have Started (if Trump Hadn’t Fired Comey)
Late-night hosts have had a difficult time keeping up with President Trump lately—and they only have 24 hours of garbage to sift through. Full Frontal With Samantha Bee gives Trump a full week’s head start, which means that late-breaking developments lead to writers’ room tweets like this:
TFW you were done writing the show at 5:30 on Tuesday night and then all hell broke loose. pic.twitter.com/HVGwZV3Aix
— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) May 11, 2017
Bee, who hasn’t been on the air since the American Health Care Act passed the House, had a lot to say about it, so she taped the segment that would have run if not for recent developments and put it on her Facebook page. It’s great—the advantage to having more time between shows is the writers can polish the jokes. This must really come in handy with Bee, whose monologues employ Veep-style creative profanity in ways other hosts couldn’t get away with. Try to imagine Stephen Colbert delivering this:
While Republicans were fluffing themselves like Dirk Diggler to pass this piece of shit bill, Democrats held the moral high ground. Which they will lose in 3, 2, 1 …
Besides the writing, the segment is worth watching for its eye-opening montage of hacky sports metaphors news networks used to describe the AHCA’s passage. It’s the kind of thing that’s so ubiquitous it’s unnoticeable until someone points it out. (Bee’s explanation of why it’s not a great idea to use Rocky metaphors works the same way.) Here’s hoping the show continues releasing these pre-empted segments, since it seems likely that Trump will keep pre-empting them.
Watch the canceled segment below: