The Sound of Young America: Samantha Bee, Daily Show Correspondent and Author of I Know I Am But What Are You

Episode 123

19th July 2010

Samantha Bee is the Daily Show’s longest-tenured correspondent, having joined the program in 2003. She’s also the author of a new memoir, called I Know I Am But What Are You?

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Samantha Bee is the Daily Show’s longest-tenured correspondent, having joined the program in 2003. She’s also the author of a new memoir, I Know I Am But What Are You?

Bee grew up in an unusual tripartite family, splitting time between a matronly grandmother, a conservative, re-married father and a bohemian, Wiccan mother. She met her husband, the Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones, while working in a Sailor Moon-themed stage show at the Canadian National Exposition.

She talked with us from New York City.

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