Her final Daily Show will be teary, says Bee
TORONTO — Samantha Bee says she’s stocked up on waterproof mascara and waterproof eyeliner in preparation for her final episode of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.
After 12 years with the satirical nightly news show, the Toronto-born comic makes her final appearance as Most Senior Correspondent on Thursday.
There will be tears, she promises.
“I have been really emotional since the news broke and all that stuff. So I’m going to be crying for sure.”
Reached by phone recently in New York, Bee noted she had cried earlier that day when she taped her final podcast for the show.
“Today they got to (see) me weeping — not just hear it silently muffled over the course of the podcast.”
Besides tears, Bee says Thursday’s Daily Show episode will feature a “best-of” retrospective of her most memorable moments.
She’s just the latest in a string of personalities exiting the CTV/Comedy Network show: her husband and fellow correspondent Jason Jones left on March 26, and host Jon Stewart is set to make his last appearance as host on Aug. 6.
Bee says she’s excited about a slew of ambitious new ventures, including her own comedy series for TBS and a comedy pilot for TBS she created and writes with Jones, who will also star.
The 10-episode series will be a comedy following a family on a road trip, she says. It will be serialized, and not for young audiences, she adds. Writing began three weeks ago.