High Hopes For Samantha Bee

I am looking forward to tonight's premiere of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee on TBS. As another refugee from the long gone, heydays of The Daily Show, she represents a hopeful start to more great comedy. 

Her new show will follow The Daily Show format with local reporting on current events. And she will be joined by her husband, Jason Jones, and others from the old Daily Show.  What a deal!

In discussing her show with the Seattle Times, she noted:

With comedy, you can’t start a piece saying, ‘We’re going to make a change happen, we’re going to change the world with this comedy,’ because then nothing would be funny at all...But we’re definitely attracted to stories that …. shine a light on something. Somebody should be paying attention to these things.

I will be paying attention and expect she will do just fine.