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Samantha Bee and Jason Jones on making ‘Full Frontal’ from the woods
The coronavirus pandemic has shuttered studio productions of every major late- night talk show.
Samantha Bee and Jason Jones — her husband, producer and fellow former “Daily Show” correspondent — take Bee's late-night show, “Full Frontal,” into the woods outside their house in upstate New York after the coronavirus pandemic shut down production. Jones is the crew, and Bee still opens every episode with her trademark speedy monologue. They now have no audience — except for woodland creatures. Bee and Jones tell us how they’re keeping their late-night show going while the rest of the show’s 70-person staff works from home.
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Read the story9 minSamantha Bee and Jason Jones take ‘Full Frontal’ to the forest
The most recent episodes of the TBS late-night show “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” starts with the usual theme song, but the set is now more … a setting. As the coronavirus pandemic grounds life to a halt, Bee and her husband, fellow…
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