Samantha Bee. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: Getty Images When Samantha Bee was doing press for the launch of Full Frontal in early 2016, she and her producers vowed to “kick the barn doors in.” Pretty quickly into the show’s run, it was clear what she meant: If the show was talking about something that made them angry, they were going to be angry. And it became a refuge for those who didn’t find men calmly sitting behind a desk cathartic.
And by the way — and I think this is not talked about enough, so I’ll say it — we cannot do our jobs without journalists. We cannot do it. If we don’t have all the Frontline clips, we can’t fucking make our show the way that we make it. We are just taking from the real news and synthesizing it in a different way.
First of all, it really was just practical. A producer on the show got pregnant. We were like, Holy shit. I was like, “Wait a minute, did we have a family-leave policy? What is it?” And then we realized that it didn’t exist; we hadn’t been called to create one. I remembered my leave at The Daily Show was not … I’m originally from Canada, where people get a year — like a full year.
We did put it in place. I don’t know if other shows adopted that. I really, really don’t know. And if they do, that’s great.I do. I do think that I am different. I am really quite involved in a different way. I am involved in the creative part of the show, but I’m also pretty spiritually connected too. I am aware of the problems we have as a company, the successes that we have as a company. I am constantly tweaking our processes and constantly thinking about managing the staff.
That’s a bad, long answer, but it takes up a tremendous amount of time and energy. And if you don’t do it, I don’t know, I guess you reap what you sow. If you don’t do it, you’ll be blindsided when there’s big problems, like big interior structural problems. I’d rather know about the problems and work diligently to fix them or make things better, or maybe not fix them, but have a pretty fucking good reason for not fixing it. I can’t make the workplace delightful for everyone all the time.
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