Matt Walsh Tries To Laugh At Feminist Comedienne Samantha Bee ｜ THROWBACK EDITION
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Summary
Samantha Bee is a stand-up comedian and host of the hit show Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. She's also the host of a new show on TBS called about women in comedy. And she's a feminist.
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You know, recently I shared the devastating news that Full Frontal with Samantha Bee has
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Now, you might be asking questions like, why are you reading news from five years ago?
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But if you're a fan of this show, you might not realize Samantha and I have a little bit
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of a history together because my producers obviously hate me, as you know.
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They periodically make me watch feminist comedians do their best imitation of a suffering cat,
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which of course, I mean, you know, their stand-up comedy routines is what they call
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The very first video in this Try to Laugh series featured Samantha Bee.
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Let's just say that her jokes have aged as well as a fine glass of milk.
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So my producer suggested that I watch and review some feminist comedy bits.
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And he suggested this because evidently he hates my guts, which is understandable.
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So, you know, but the thing is, I did actually watch some feminist comedy in anticipation
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And usually like, I'm, um, I'm like not an advocate of like street harassment and stuff
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Um, except from men that wear gray track suits.
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I remember when Kate Middleton announced her pregnancy, I was like, ah, I wonder if she'll
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That I thought maybe the fruit was hanging a little too low, a little too, a little, it's
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And there's all kinds of euphemism packed into that last sentence that you can get into
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But then I thought if I'm going to review feminist comedy, I shouldn't go for the obscure
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I should focus on a feminist comedian who is successful, well-known, allegedly talented.
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And that's why I am going to focus on Samantha Bee.
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You know, Samantha Bee has her own comedy show on Lifetime or whatever it's on.
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And she's hailed by the media as brilliant and hilarious and genius and so on.
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I figure she's the best of the best when it comes to woke female comedians.
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We're going to watch some Samantha Bee together.
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And more than reviewing it, I think I want to see if I can find a reason to laugh.
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Meat packing workers often contend with cramped conditions, grueling labor, and long hours.
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So it's unsurprising that plants have become hotspots for COVID-19.
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If we want to keep our food supply safe, we should first keep our workers safe.
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Following aggressive lobbying from the meat industry, Trump issued an executive order aimed
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The president leapt into action to save meat because burgers?
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And this might be part of Samantha Bee's genius, that she tells jokes and nobody knows that they're
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Samantha Bee, Hannah Gadsby, they're always deconstructing comedy rather than just telling
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And I don't mean to imply that women aren't funny.
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From Ohio to New York, Michigan to California, this morning, the beef shortage at Wendy's
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The company with that unforgettable catchphrase decades ago is now having trouble finding
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It's embarrassing that the Where's the Beef place is out of beef.
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It'd be like if someone at Taco Bell was caught thinking inside the bun.
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And yet she's never actually told one, so far as I can tell.
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And so I'm starting to figure out that when people say Samantha Bee is funny, which I've
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never actually heard anyone say that, but theoretically, if they do say that, they don't mean it on the
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What they mean is that she's funny for a feminist, which is like saying a corn dog is healthy for
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So maybe if we understand it on that scale, we get into the mind of a feminist, maybe it
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With some food shortages and increased prices, the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
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About 38 million people rely on SNAP benefits to feed their families.
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And last month, the USDA announced it would increase overall benefits 40 percent to give
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Unfortunately, many food stamp households were left out of the benefit expansion because they
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Now, while Democrats are trying to raise benefits by 15 percent, Republicans are attempting to
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Just for context, the maximum benefit for a family of four is only $646 per month.
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For Republicans, giving hungry families an extra hundred bucks during a worldwide pandemic is
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too big of an ask, both because they deeply, passionately don't give a shit about poor people
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and because Steve Mnuchin needs it to fashion sheets for his bed.
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Maybe this was, this could have been a bad outing.
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Like not, not, not, it's not going to be great every single time for a comedian.
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I understand that, you know, it's a tough job, I have to imagine.
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I had hoped that as we moved into spring, the forest would start to look green and full
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Given recent SCOTUS wins, it feels like the pendulum may be swinging back to a time when
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the nuclear family was situated at the center of American life, where real conversation,
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So naturally, the question on everyone's minds is, when can the country reopen?
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I've been home so long I got horny just thinking about dining in at a pizza hut.
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I'm actually, I'm plunging into despair right now.
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I am losing my will to live every second that I watch this.
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I'm just, I'm overcome by this wave of just total emotional desolation.
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It is making me long for the sweet embrace of death.
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I just had this image while I was watching this.
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I had this image in my head of a guy burning to death in a house fire, and I was jealous
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of that guy because at least he's not watching Samantha Bee.
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I don't know about you, but for me, it's crucial to stay productive during quarantine.
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For example, at the start of the year, I bought a journal to keep tabs on every book I've
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read and every film I've seen, but now I'm just keeping a list of every porn I've watched
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that's troubled me, starting with hardcore kissing.
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Maybe, okay, maybe she's having a hard time with coronavirus material because it's, let's
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be fair, it can be hard to come up with funny jokes around the coronavirus.
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Here, let's find a video of her from before all this.
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So this is from last July and we'll give this one a shot.
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In the past week, our beloved president of the United States of Rhodesia has done so many
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So if you want to hear about Trump's social media summit, his threatened ice raids and
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his failed effort to weaponize the census, turn to TBS2 for Full Frontal After Dark, where
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I rant in my sleep about what a prick our president is.
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Did you get, it's because there's a, there's a show called Young Sheldon.
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And so she's saying, there's a show called Old, what if there's a show called Old, it's
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Let's focus on the three racistest things Trump's been up to lately, starting with this.
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President Trump unapologetic, defending his racist Twitter tirade aimed at four Democratic
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Congresswomen of color, after telling them Sunday to go back to help fix the totally broken
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and crime infested places from which they came.
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Sadly, the only thing that should surprise anyone is that he wrote from which they came
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Shakespeare, now return your head to the orifice from which it came.
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I want to find, I want to find a funny Samantha Bee joke.
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I want to be able to say out loud, this is what I want to be able to say this.
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Have you heard that hilarious Samantha Bee joke?
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And then I want the person I'm talking to to say, did you say hilarious Samantha Bee joke?
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Well, listen to this and then I'll repeat the joke and we'll all have a good laugh.
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It's the only thing I want to do with my life now is my life's work.
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This is a, this is a Greta Thunberg related thing.
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Samantha Bee, the author of the 12th most popular line of self-published dinosaur erotica
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From my own parenting experience, I can tell you there's nothing more terrifying than a
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And right now, one teenage girl in particular is scaring the crap out of all of us.
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This morning I woke up and she was standing over my bed.
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That, of course, is Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist who's been traveling
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She's just a girl standing in front of a group of world leaders asking them to do something
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For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear.
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How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you're doing enough when the
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politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight?
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The only thing scarier than a 16-year-old girl is a 16-year-old girl with an agenda who knows
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Greta Thunberg terrifies me and I love her for it.
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Samantha kind of ruined it there when she started trying to tell jokes.
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But I did crack a smile at the Greta Thunberg clip.
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So we might have to count that as my Samantha Bee laugh.
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I might just have to call it and say that that qualifies.
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She doesn't want to inspire us or give us hope.
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She wants to give us nightmares because we deserve them.
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Greta is bringing something very important to the discourse about climate change.
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She's traveled all over the world ripping into our craven leaders like a miniature Don Rickles
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Her international shaming tour has led the EU to commit hundreds of billions of euros
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She got the British Parliament to declare a climate emergency and pledged to zero out
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And she got the band Scorpions to finally stop rocking everyone like a hurricane.
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There's only so much punishment a man can take.
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This is like someone gave a microphone and a laugh track to my drunk aunt at Thanksgiving.