The night before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month, Samantha Bee delivered an impassioned call to arms on her late-night show, "Full Frontal."
"We have to raise hell in our cities, in Washington, in every restaurant Justice [Samuel] Alito eats at for the rest of his life," she said in the monologue, recorded in her backyard rather than in her studio because she had tested positive for the coronavirus a few days earlier. "Because if Republicans have made our lives hell, it's time to return the favor."
It turned out to be the last segment the show would ever film. On Monday, Bee released a statement saying that "Full Frontal" would not be returning to TBS in the fall. She praised the show's creative team for "boldly using political satire to entertain, inform and empower viewers, while embracing critically underrepresented stories, particularly about women" and noted her own role in "paving the way for female voices in what has traditionally been, and continues to be, a male-dominated landscape."
