Hi, Samantha.
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Hey.
How are you?
I'm fine.
Thank you for asking.
How are you?
I'm very well, thank you, excited to be here.
Well, it's nice to meet you.
This is the first time on the show.
You're in New York as we speak.
Yes.
It is Tuesday right now.
And you are in the middle of a huge blizzard.
What did you get, 30 inches today?
We had about 30 inches.
It's actually-- it's so intense in my backyard right now.
And still snowing kind of.
It stopped for a little while.
And now it's starting again.
It's like a whole situation.
Yeah, that's my backyard.
Wow.
And so you were able to somehow get out and go to your studio
and then come back again?
How are you able to get around?
Yes.
Well, I planned for every contingency
today, because I definitely thought
that I might have to shoot the show in the backyard,
as we did through much of the pandemic.
But actually I got plowed.
So I was really just waiting to see if I was
going to get plowed out or not.
And I did.
Wow.
So we have a show.
Yes.
I'm so glad.
So your family, I understand you've been putting your family
to work there.
I have.
We definitely-- it was a full family
effort at the beginning of the pandemic, when we were really
totally making the show in the backyard.
I have three kids.
I got a 10-year-old, a 12-year-old, and a 14-year-old.
And my 10-year-old would hold up the teleprompter,
which was really just an iPad with words on it.
And my daughter held up this golden piece of foil
to cast light on my face.
They grew very bored of it though.
They figured out that people actually get paid to do that.
And they were like, you can't make us do this.
[LAUGHTER]
Well, they seem like smart kids.
They're very smart.
Well, no, they must be smart because I
heard you taught them how to play poker
during the quarantine.
We did.
They're very, very into poker.
I hear you are into poker.
Now we're like a poker family.
Yes.
And it's super-high stakes poker around here.
If I had kids, that's why I'd have kids,
so that I had people to play poker with all the time.
I would definitely teach my kids to play poker.
I'm obsessed with it.
And when you say high stakes, what are you playing for?
We play for-- we don't play for money.
We play for goals.
So the kids will play to get out of doing the dishes.
And my husband, his big goal every time he plays,
his big prize is that he really wants us all to watch
The Godfather with him.
And nobody-- we do not want to do that at all, none of us.
The kids really-- they know that it's like three hours long
and it's slow moving.
Yeah.
So we play really hard when that's his goal.
Wow.
Yeah.
And this is adorable, you got a-- there's just
nothing better than a kitten.
And you got a kitten.
We did.
We already had a cat.
And we got-- look at-- aw.
We got a quarantine kitten.
And it has been a great add for us.
She really gives us a lot to think about.
She's missing a tail.
She has just this little weird nub at the back.
She's really cute.
She's great.
Are you sure it's supposed to be a tail?
[LAUGHTER]
Oh, interesting.
All right, so let's talk about Full Frontal.
It started in 2016.
It's mostly about politics.
Yeah.
So now how has it been since we have a new president?
Oh, my God.
It's like a whole--
it's incredible.
I love it.
I love doing the show.
But this has been a really--
we've never even attempted to make the show
without the specter of Donald Trump in our lives in some way.
And so it feels like such an opportunity to--
even though I've been doing the show for five years,
I almost feel like a little fledgling up in a tree,
just testing out my delicate little wings.
I feel like I can start to live.
I feel like we can start to do insane segments
and actually have fun again.
It's great.
Well, that's fantastic.
It's like a whole new chapter, obviously, for a lot of us.
And anybody special you'd like to interview
from the new administration?
My husband and I have this funny idea that we would interview--
that I would set up my husband with Doug
Emhoff, the new second husband.
It would just be two second husbands
interviewing each other.
And it would be so great.
I would really appreciate that.
Actually we should just put the idea in his ear,
at this moment.
Doug, say, yes.
It'll be fun.
I promise.
We just did.
We'll make sure that this gets to him, absolutely.
OK.
Thank you, appreciate it.
So your inauguration night episode
had a fun opening where celebrities crowd surfed you.
Yes.
Yeah, it was the only way to really--
it was the only way to meet people, touch people,
to have them touch and hold a cardboard version of me.
Right.
It was bittersweet.
I loved it.
Well, since you couldn't be here in person,
we wanted to show you around.
So here's what we did.
We brought you all kinds of different places.
There you are.
You're in our control room, which you would have been.
There you are arriving, the backstage to the entrance.
And you're in the dressing room, so happy.
Lots of you.
Love it.
I'm having so much fun there.
You're on the lot.
Yeah, you're having a blast.
That's great.
I am.
Yeah.
There you are at craft service having some snacks.
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All right.
Thank you.
So nice meeting you, Samantha.
It's called Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.
It airs Wednesday nights at 10:30 on TBS.
We'll be back.