Full Release with Samantha Bee

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<p><em>Full Frontal with Samantha Bee</em> host Samantha Bee sits down for weekly unscripted, in-depth conversations with the best and rightest people about how to navigate the ever-changing world and what to laugh about along the way.</p>

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Basketball Star or Bipartisan Leader? (with Governor Maura Healey) - Choice Words with Samantha Bee

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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey joins Sam to talk about trading her career as a (yes) professional...

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey joins Sam to talk about trading her career as a (yes) professional basketball player in Austria for law school and later to serve as Attorney General and Governor of Massachusetts. They talk about how Governor Healey happily works across the aisle with non-crazy Republican colleagues, and why some of them are voting for Kamala Harris. They talk about struggling with...

Seat-Filler or Superdelegate? (with Jon Cryer) - Choice Words with Samantha Bee

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Jon Cryer joins Sam to talk about how he chooses his acting roles when he knows...

Jon Cryer joins Sam to talk about how he chooses his acting roles when he knows saying yes to one job means having to turn down another, and tells Sam about a huge role he passed up. They also get into it about a raccoon that steals his delivery food, why he gets recognized at the Frankfurt airport, and being a seat-filler at the...

List Maker or List Keeper? (with Mackenzie Davis) - Choice Words with Samantha Bee

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Actor Mackenzie Davis joins Sam to talk about how she took a semester off from college...

Actor Mackenzie Davis joins Sam to talk about how she took a semester off from college to model–hated it–and ultimately decided to go back to school and fast track her degree so that she could start acting. They bond over seeing baking directions as meditational, learning lines while cooking, and how making lists and keeping lists are two different skills. Check out Mackenzie’s new...

Camper or Cosmopolitan? (with Shailene Woodley) - Choice Words with Samantha Bee

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Actor Shailene Woodley joins Sam to talk about a pivotal decision she made to move to...

Actor Shailene Woodley joins Sam to talk about a pivotal decision she made to move to Europe and live out of a carry-on suitcase for ten years amid a blossoming Hollywood career. Shailene tells Sam that she would pick up dishwashing shifts when she needed money and how living in Europe taught her to see how Americans and Europeans talk about sex and bodies...

Actor or Annapolis? (with Carrie Coon) - Choice Words with Samantha Bee

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Carrie Coon joins Samantha Bee to discuss being a classic midwestern middle child, almost attending a...

Carrie Coon joins Samantha Bee to discuss being a classic midwestern middle child, almost attending a naval academy, how the first decision she ever made in her life was to go to graduate school, why comedians are the darkest people, and how when she was younger she would collect boyfriends and leave the country rather than break up with them (didn’t we all??). Keep...

Democracy or Else (with Jon Lovett) - Choice Words with Samantha Bee

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Crooked Media’s Jon Lovett joins Sam to debrief the DNC and why Chicago is the perfect...

Crooked Media’s Jon Lovett joins Sam to debrief the DNC and why Chicago is the perfect combination of sweatpants and sandwich town. They discuss his decision to go on Survivor and why it’s the best way to see how democracy works up close. Plus, Sam and Jon get into why movies are too long, the best way to moderate debates, and the power of...

Make History or Repeat History? (with Symone Sanders Townsend) - Choice Words with Samantha Bee

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Co-host of MSNBC’s The Weekend and former senior advisor to Vice President Harris Symone Sanders Townsend...

Co-host of MSNBC’s The Weekend and former senior advisor to Vice President Harris Symone Sanders Townsend joins Sam for DNC week! Sam and Symone talk about how as kids they both hosted fake news shows, where she was when she heard President Biden was ending his campaign, why Symone had to make a pro/con list when deciding to leave the White House, being a...

Hot or Not? (with Tony Goldwyn) - Choice Words with Samantha Bee

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Actor and activist Tony Goldwyn joins Sam and talks about how he rides the waves of...

Actor and activist Tony Goldwyn joins Sam and talks about how he rides the waves of success—sometimes people want you and sometimes they don’t—and how he’s learned to be ok not chasing roles that weren’t right for him. They also talk about how at a pivotal moment in his career Tony decided to stay in New York and do a small Off-Broadway play rather...

Understand or Ignore: America’s Gun Problem (with Roxane Gay) - Choice Words with Samantha Bee

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In her new essay, “Stand Your Ground: A Black Feminist Reckoning with America’s Gun Problem,” Roxane...

In her new essay, “Stand Your Ground: A Black Feminist Reckoning with America’s Gun Problem,” Roxane Gay details her decision to become a gun owner and why she doesn’t think the US has missed its window on meaningful gun control. Sam and Roxane also discuss why you never want to peak in high school, the shift to writing for TV, and how the worst...

Choices We Made: Make Comedy or Watch Comedy? (with Nick Kroll) - Choice Words with Samantha Bee

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When comedian Nick Kroll decided to end his hit show “Kroll Show” he wasn’t totally sure...

When comedian Nick Kroll decided to end his hit show “Kroll Show” he wasn’t totally sure what he would do next. But it was important to him to decide something was done rather than drag it out. Sam asks Nick about how he’s so good at zeroing in on what he genuinely wants, finding the funniest people in the room to make Big Mouth,...

Theater or Therapist? (with Rachel Dratch) - Choice Words with Samantha Bee

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When Rachel Dratch was growing up, she figured she’d have some sort of “normal” career like...

When Rachel Dratch was growing up, she figured she’d have some sort of “normal” career like therapist. Then she saw a performance of Annie and thought she could be one of the people on stage too. Sam talks to Rachel about how important it is to ask for the parts you want (and then winning a Tony for it), how the biggest thing that...

NYU or Nowhere? (with Paul Scheer) - Choice Words with Samantha Bee

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When Paul Scheer was a senior in high school he decided that he would only apply...

When Paul Scheer was a senior in high school he decided that he would only apply to NYU because if it was good enough for Theo Huxtable, it was good enough for him. Sam talks to Paul about decisions he’s made since then (not based on Theo Huxtable), like having kids and deciding what kind of parent to be. They bond over being “latchkey...

International Relations or International Popstar? (with Rachel Platten) - Choice Words with Samantha Bee

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While in college, Rachel Platten was on the path to a career in international relations. But...

While in college, Rachel Platten was on the path to a career in international relations. But then she decided to switch course and swap a semester abroad in Spain for a semester abroad in Trinidad where she fell in love with music. She now has a song that has been streamed more than a billion times (Fight Song) and a new album “I Am...

Doctor or Doc…umentary Filmmaker? (with Joy-Ann Reid) - Choice Words with Samantha Bee

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When MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid was growing up she was expected to be a doctor, lawyer,...

When MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid was growing up she was expected to be a doctor, lawyer, or architect. Then she decided to drop out of Harvard, ditch her doctor aspirations, and re-enroll as a documentary film major. These days the biggest decision Joy makes every day is deciding what news stories to include in her show The ReidOut. Sam talks to Joy about what...

College or Kitchen? (with Alison Roman) - Choice Words with Samantha Bee

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While a student, Alison Roman made a life-changing decision to leave college to start working in...

While a student, Alison Roman made a life-changing decision to leave college to start working in a restaurant kitchen and has never looked back. Sam talks to Alison about being such a decisive person, creating viral recipes, the magic of pasta water, weighing information and intuition and making the content for yourself that you wish to see in the world when no one else...

Woman in Late Night or Woman on Tour? (with Taylor Tomlinson) - Choice Words with Samantha Bee

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When Taylor Tomlinson was interviewing to be the host of After Midnight, she wasn’t even sure...

When Taylor Tomlinson was interviewing to be the host of After Midnight, she wasn’t even sure she wanted the job. She loved making her own schedule as a touring stand up comedian, and loved her road family. But when the network said she would still have time to be on the road, it was an easy decision to say yes. Sam asks Taylor about...

Make Comedy or Watch Comedy? (with Nick Kroll) - Choice Words with Samantha Bee

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When comedian Nick Kroll decided to end his hit show “Kroll Show” he wasn’t totally sure...