Samantha Bee
Summary
Samantha Bee (born October 25, 1969) is a Canadian comedic actress and author best known as a correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.Bee was born in Toronto, Ontario. She studied theatre at the University of Ottawa, also studied at McGill University in Montreal and studied acting at George Brown Theatre School in Toronto. She was one of the four founding members of Toronto-based sketch comedy troupe The Atomic Fireballs, with whom she performed before being hired by the Daily Show in 2003.Bee has been a correspondent for the The Daily Show since July 10, 2003.. On that program, Bee has demonstrated an ability to coax people into caricaturing themselves — particularly in segments like "Kill Drill", on hunters and fossil fuel executives claiming to be environmentalists; "They So Horny" on the dearth of Asian men in U.S.
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WATCH: Jon Stewart Loses It Over Fox News Pundit Remarks
Jon Stewart never misses an opportunity to mock an outlandish Fox News clip, but the latest soundbite he pulled regarding women in the military left him nearly speechless.
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Valerie Keefe: Degender Her, Erase Her, Deny Her, Quip She's an 'It'
I had been ambivalent about Gloria Steinem's return to a public stage she'd never really left, particularly on The Huffington Post, a site that at least makes a passing, cursory attempt at noises that sound supportive of trans people and trans rights. (I mean, after all, they invited me to write for them, so they can't be all bad.
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Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte: Addressing Climate Change: Hilarity, a Hurricane, a Pipeline and a Time to Lead
Did the media overdose on Irene? Oh, come on. That's not a great debate -- not even a real one. No, the real question is: when will the media stop overlooking the 500-pound gorilla in the extreme weather room? What will it take? A "Day After Tomorrow" scenario?.
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'Daily Show' Star Making Big Move
Senior correspondent Jason Jones is set to co-star in the CBS comedy pilot "The Assistants," Deadline reports. He'll play husband to Heather Locklear's character, a celebrity with a freshly hired, star-eyed assistant, to be played by David Henrie. This is Jones' second go-round with CBS; in 2008, he and wife/"Daily Show" co-star Samantha Bee worked on a pilot for the network about a celebrity chef.
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Who’s on tonight, 3.3.11
“Hannity”: Chris Hahn, Democratic strategist and attorney; Andy McCarthy, senior fellow at the National Review Institute; Noelle Nikpour, Republican consultant and strategist.
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WATCH: Stewart Mocks Fox News For Critiquing Arizona Shooting Memorial
Jon Stewart continued his coverage of the Arizona shooting aftermath Thursday night, this time going after Fox News for actually criticizing the memorial held this week. While pundits initially praised the memorial service for those who were killed in Tucson, Stewart showed how soon they turned to nitpicking it as if it were a televised form of entertainment.
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WATCH: Samantha Bee On Worst Gifts, Harem Pants & Kim Jong-Il
HuffPost Style caught up with "Daily Show" correspondent Samantha Bee -- who also happens to be a gift-giver extraordinaire. She even partnered with eBay on six short films capturing "Unwrap Attacks," that moment when someone receives the perfect gift.
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Advertising: EBay Promises Christmas Freakouts
A six-week Web series featuring Samantha Bee is inspired by the so-called Christmas gift freakout videos on YouTube.
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Medea Benjamin: Dear Jon, Sane People Protest Crazy Wars
When Jon Stewart was on Larry King's show talking about his Rally to Restore Sanity, he likened himself to Alice in Wonderland and the rally as the Mad Hatter Tea Party. But is Jon Stewart really Alice, trying to find sanity in an upside-down world? Or is he the March Hare, the ultimate "slacktivist" who thinks it's always teatime -- time to sit back and jibberjabber? The 10-30-10 rally on the capital's mall is looking more and more like a celebration of "slacktivism.
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A tote bag to a knife fight
Jon Stewart kicked off his week of shows from Washington last night with a pretty devastating segment on the Juan Williams firing. Samantha Bee said Williams’s comments on “The O’Reilly Factor” were “a direct violation of NPR’s ‘never say anything interesting’ policy,” while Stewart teed up Vivian Schiller’s “psychiatrist” crack by saying that NPR had already, at that point, “played into their stereotype as a bunch of condescending liberal elites.
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