Gabriel Hays at FoxNews.com reports that Samantha Bee was singled out by longtime Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels as something to avoid in political comedy. It’s an anecdote in a forthcoming book by Susan Morrison titled Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live.
The memoir quotes Michaels, stating, “It’s the hardest thing for me to explain to this generation that the show is nonpartisan. We have our biases, we have our people we like better than others, but you can’t be Samantha Bee.”
Reportedly, the book follows Michaels’ quote by clarifying that he “meant one-sided and strident” about Bee, whose weekly TBS show Full Frontal was a raging feminist “comedy” spectacle until they canceled it in 2022.
Bee now appropriately co-hosts The Daily Beast Podcast, since that website is also a hangout for ranting lefties.
Bee somehow imagined…
