We’ve all had enough sausage, if sausage means male late night hosts. In the first promo for her new satirical news TV show, debuting on TBS, Samantha Bee puts her late night contemporaries on blast. “I think I’m kind of done with sausages,” she says as Jimmy Fallon, Carson Daly, John Oliver, Seth Meyers and James Corden’s faces stare back at her. “And I am female as fuck.”
In March, TBS announced Bee as host and executive producer of her own show, with co-executive producer Jason Jones, Bee’s husband and a former “Daily Show” correspondent as well.
“Like her fans around the country, we absolutely adore everything about Sam, from her straight-faced sarcasm and ruthless wit to her uncanny ability to mine comedy gold from just about any awkward situation,” the network said at the time. “After watching Sam’s work for years, we knew that her distinctive humor and talent belong at the front of her own show.” So did we.
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