Samantha Bee's Full Frontal canceled

[Otherbrother]

Damn, she was one of the best in the business. And things are not trending in the right direction when it comes to women doing late night television lately.

In a 2019 interview with Rolling Stone, Bee spoke about breaking ground with Full Frontal and being one of (if not sometimes the only) woman in late-night television. “It is not exciting to me to be the last woman standing in this space,” she said. “It’s not what I want. It’s a huge loss that Sarah’s [Silverman] show [I Love You, America ] is off the air, that Michelle’s show [The Break With Michelle Wolf ] is off the air, that Robin’s show [The Rundown With Robin Thede ] is off the air. It’s bullshit. I thought we had learned a lesson, that other voices could emerge and tell a different tale of what’s happening. But that’s not bearing out.”

But speaking of “late night television”, the term is becoming a bit of a misnomer, right? How many of us actually watch the live television broadcasts anymore as opposed to the YouTube clips in the following days?