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Samantha Jamie Bee (born 1969) is a Canadian actress and comedian perhaps 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 is 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 gays and lesbians; "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-thirty 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.
As of 2006, Bee is currently the only female correspondent on The Daily Show, although the show has had several others since its inception. 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, compatriot, and fellow Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones, lives in Manhattan, and frequently visits Canada, and has 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.
She returned to The Daily Show, to raucous applause from the audience when Stewart summoned her, in March 2006. Samantha had apparently been in Jerusalem for her time of leave according to the show, though this is obviously not true.
On the January 24th 2008 episode of the Daily show Bee announced that she was pregnant with her second child.
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. Jon invited Bee out, and unlike the clip aired on Factor, Bee was visibly several months pregnant. Bee joked you could tell the footage O'Reilly aired was a year old (it originally aired in 2004) because she had slightly different highlights in her hair.
Guest Appearances
On Sunday January 20th, 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.
References
- Daily Show's Bee helps keep Canada in the 'news': However, correspondent doesn't hide her past as Sailor Moon at the CNE Nelson Wyatt The Canadian Press 754 words 22 July 2005 Edmonton Journal Final G15 English Copyright © 2005 Edmonton Journal
External links
- Samantha Bee at Comedy Central
- Samantha Bee at IMDb
- Joking for Two – November 13, 2005 New York Times
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