Samantha Bee Claps Back at Lorne Michaels
Lorne Michaels caught a lot of flak for booking Donald Trump as a Saturday Night Live host in 2015 — even from his own comics — but he’s never been particularly apologetic about it. Even as Trump was about to win his first election in 2016, Michaels had little patience for cast members who decried the decision. “It’s the hardest thing for me to explain to this generation that the show is nonpartisan,” Michaels told Susan Morrison, quoted in her new book Lorne via The Daily Beast. “We have our biases, we have our people we like better than others, but you can’t be Samantha Bee.”
What the heck did Michaels mean by that? Morrison clarified that “being Samantha Bee” translated to delivering comedy that was “one-sided and strident,” at least in Michaels’ world.
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What the heck did Michaels mean by that? Morrison clarified that “being Samantha Bee” translated to delivering comedy that was “one-sided and strident,” at least in Michaels’ world.
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