Samantha Bee fires back at Lorne Michaels, fueling late-night feud
Are late-night TV feuds back for 2025? It certainly seems like it could be as former late-night TV host Samantha Bee dealt some harsh words toward Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels.
It all started with the release of an excerpt from Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, an upcoming biography written by Susan Morrison. In an effort to claim SNL is apolitical, Michaels called out Bee by name.
“It’s the hardest thing for me to explain to this generation that the show is nonpartisan,” Michaels said. (viaThe Daily Beast) “We have our biases, we have our people we like better than others, but you can’t be Samantha Bee.”
According to Morrison, the SNL creator meant someone "meant one-sided and strident." Bee would certainly fit that definition based on the views she expressed as a Daily Show correspondent and host of the now-defunct TBS late-night show Full Frontal.
It all started with the release of an excerpt from Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, an upcoming biography written by Susan Morrison. In an effort to claim SNL is apolitical, Michaels called out Bee by name.
“It’s the hardest thing for me to explain to this generation that the show is nonpartisan,” Michaels said. (viaThe Daily Beast) “We have our biases, we have our people we like better than others, but you can’t be Samantha Bee.”
According to Morrison, the SNL creator meant someone "meant one-sided and strident." Bee would certainly fit that definition based on the views she expressed as a Daily Show correspondent and host of the now-defunct TBS late-night show Full Frontal.
- 2/14/2025
- by Matt Moore
- Last Night On
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