Everything about Samantha Bee totally explained
Samantha Jamie Bee (born 1969) is a
Canadian actress and
comedian best known as a correspondent for
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Biography
Early life
Bee was born in
Toronto,
Ontario. She received a degree from the
University of Ottawa, and studied science at
McGill University in
Montreal and acting at
George Brown Theatre School in
Toronto. She also performed with the
sketch comedy troupe The Atomic Fireballs, of which she's one of four founding members, in Toronto before being hired by the award-winning
Daily Show in 2003.
Career
On
The Daily Show, Bee has demonstrated an ability to coax people into caricaturing themselves — particularly in segments like "Kill Drill", on hunters and
fossil fuel executives claiming to be
environmentalists; "
They So Horny," on the dearth of
Asian men in U.S.
pornography; "Tropical Repression," on
Ed Heeney, a
Florida politician running his campaign based on opposition to
gay rights; "The Undecided", an over-the-top look at the infamous undecided voters leading up to the
2004 U.S. presidential elections; and
"Samantha Bee's So You Want To Bee A..." report series, which humorously caricatures the way in which one can easily obtain a certain job, like becoming a
527 group. Her segment on "NILFs" ("News I'd Like to F#@k"), discussing the sexiness of
news anchors is one of her most memorable: "
CNN has the wholesome girl-next-door NILFs, the kind you can bring home to meet your mother.
MSNBC has the dirty-over-30 NILFs.
FOX has the filthy NILFs who will report anything. They're the
Hustler of NILFs."
Bee played the title role in a live action production of
Sailor Moon at the
Canadian National Exhibition, and has had guest appearances on several television shows. She had her first starring role in a feature film in 2004 with the Canadian
independent film Ham & Cheese, alongside veteran
Canadian comics
Scott Thompson and
Dave Foley.
Until the recent debut of
Kristen Schaal in March 2008, Bee was the sole female correspondent on
The Daily Show since 2006. She was The Daily Show's first non-U.S.
citizen correspondent. Bee was recognized with a 2005
Canadian Comedy Award for Best Female TV Performance for her work on
The Daily Show. In 2007, she made a guest appearance on the hit
CBC sitcom
Little Mosque on the Prairie, portraying a
Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) agent in town on a 'fishing trip'.
Personal life
Bee is married to actor and fellow
Daily Show correspondent
Jason Jones. She lives in
Manhattan, and she's indicated her intention to work toward U.S.
citizenship. In late 2005, Jones became a freelance
Daily Show correspondent while Bee reduced her workload due to her
pregnancy. In January 2006, the couple welcomed their first child, Piper Bee-Jones. Bee returned to
The Daily Show in March 2006.
On
January 24,
2008, Bee announced a second pregnancy on air during a bit about the media's coverage of the presidential campaign.
Bee in popular culture
In December 2005, on
The O'Reilly Factor,
Bill O'Reilly used a clip of Bee from
The Daily Show as an example of "
The War on Christmas," presenting it as having aired recently. The clip (a parody community events calendar) featured Bee mentioning how
Christmas was the only religious holiday that's also a
federal holiday in the
United States, with O'Reilly talking about
"Secular Central...excuse me, Comedy Central".
Jon Stewart discussed this on the air, claiming he couldn't recall doing that piece. Stewart invited Bee out, and unlike the clip aired on
Factor, Bee was visibly several months pregnant. Though the two were coy insofar as explicitly mentioning her pregnancy, Bee joked it was obvious that the footage O'Reilly aired was a year old (it originally aired in 2004) because she'd slightly different highlights in her hair, before stating that her water had just broken.
Guest Appearances
On
January 20,
2008, Bee participated in the
CBC game show
Test The Nation, along with five other celebrities including
Carlo Rota. She finished as the highest scoring celebrity on the show.
Further Information
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