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LIFTING THE CURTAIN

Daily Show vet Samantha Bee brings her unique voice — and management style — to her own comedic enterprise.
Bee understands that if her writers are passionate about a topic, the audience will respond.

The host of TBS’s weekly news-satire show, Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, arrived on the job in 2016 after spending almost 12 years at The Daily Show. By November, Full Frontal was matching The Daily Show in the ratings. Managing a team of her own was something Bee had never done before, so she had to learn fast, as she explains to Fast Company’s KC Ifeanyi.

Full Frontal

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