Samantha Bee has been in the news recently, celebrating the Pennsylvania special election victory of Conor Lamb, urging NRA members to convert to Scientology, and in general being the tip of the sword at the intersection of politics and satire.
Samantha was born in Toronto, Canada in 1969, and like most struggling actors waited on tables as a waitress in between jobs, hoping for her big break. Her breakout role on television was as a special correspondent on the John Stewart ‘Daily Show’ in the early 2000s, finding an audience for her dry wit and satire. Samantha left the ‘Daily Show’ after 12 years in 2015, kicking off her ‘Full Frontal with Samantha Bee’ program which made its debut in February of 2016.
Samantha is the mother of three children and currently holds both American and Canadian citizenships
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