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Samantha Bee

from Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Samantha Bee (Daily Show, Full Frontal, Detour) is an Emmy-nominated writer, comedian and television host.Samantha joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how she never thought her career would pan out, that she used to be very uncomfortable during auditions, and how doing an all-female sketch comedy group helped her confidence.Samantha and Dax talk about her combative interview style, what she learned from her time on The Daily Show, and her objections to ill-informed people trying to bend the world to their will. Samantha explains how she has always had a hard time respecting authority figures and that one of her mom's boyfriends lived in a haunted house. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Samantha Bee (Daily Show, Full Frontal, Detour) is an Emmy-nominated writer, comedian and television host.Samantha joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how she never thought her career would pan out, that she used to be very uncomfortable during auditions, and how doing an all-female sketch comedy group helped her confidence.Samantha and Dax talk about her combative interview style, what she learned from her time on The Daily Show, and her objections to ill-informed people trying to bend the world to their will. Samantha explains how she has always had a hard time respecting authority figures and that one of her mom's boyfriends lived in a haunted house. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Welcome up, Norm Chair expert. I'm Samantha B and I'm joined by Jordan Peterson. Hi. I want to be B, Samantha.

Okay. Well, welcome up on a Jordan chair expert. I'm going by. I'm going by Mrs.

Samantha B. No, I want to be B, Samantha. Oh, she had well. I'm going to be on that.

She happened to be Samantha. Good job. You'll fix all that. Samantha will be great guest.

She is so smart. I've been following her comedy for years. She's an OG daily show correspondent. One of the female comedians.

And I was like, she's rad. Yeah. And also we caught up with her in a cabin in the woods, which was really the highlight for me. She was the only one of the times 100 most influential people in 2017.

She has a show you love full front of with Samantha B for she was on the Daily Show. And she is the creator producer of D tour. She also has a podcast called full release with Samantha B. Another 1990 full front of her show, full release is her podcast.

Yeah, she does any window. Yeah, which I love anyone. She's not her. Please enjoy some man to be.

He's not sure. Oh, hello. Hello. Can you just see me or my I see you look like a chair behind you.

There's a tree behind me. A woodling creature, but she has what you need. I wouldn't reach her with those swing goggles. I was wearing her flip.

She came to retrieve them. We're in a cabin in Maine right now. So anything can happen, whether or not I think I guess or something. So jealous.

I love it here. I'm so thank you for having me. Or excited. I need to know a little bit more about, I mean, this is for both of us.

Okay. Trigging because you're on a vacation, but you brought all your recording. I know. I'm sorry.

No, it's true. I'm not the exact same thing. We're not going to motorhome trip and I'll have everything because you never know when you're going to have to record, right? 100%.

But I snuck out to be perfectly honest. I'm still actually working. Like I'm not on full vacation until kind of like the end of this week because we actually have a show full show. And you're going to do it from Maine.

No, I went away on big travel trip. So I got all the footage that I needed so that I could finish my work from this cabin that we go to. And so I brought all this. I have like such a hilarious set up.

It's like a fold out camp table. It's very wobbly. They're scattered all over the camera. They're like, anyways, are you good at vacation?

Can you check out or are you not gonna? I'm not gonna get good at it. It takes me about four days. I'm just like the most brutal nightmares, like just unsweetling the brain.

It takes me a few days and then I'm so into it and lost and completely check out of the entire world. Very focused on vacation and relaxation and putting together snat trace. That's why I got it. But there is a double edged sword in that.

So the great thing is, is like, you have a pocket. So you can do that in here. I imagine that your show that you make being at home and currently not me at home. You can probably do that anywhere.

Yeah. Good. That's essentially what we did for an episode in this. We did an episode from Rwanda.

It was like doing a kind of normal show. And we're shooting lots of footage. So it's putting together really quite definitely because theoretically do the show from anywhere. Like we've learned that we don't need the conventions of the regular studio space.

Yeah. That was actually a good learning journey in the last year. It's double edged in that. Like, oh great.

Now you can be mobile. And at the same time, you're never away. No one can ever find you. Yeah.

Very findable. Everywhere. Like, you're not findable on an RV trip though. Like your dream.

No, no, no one's going to come for you. No, no. Our demisses RV. So people could easily come for us.

Well, that's really, it's not just a large. But aside from that, conceivably, Monica and Colin go, hey, someone so popped up, they can only be next week. I'll park them out in the Starbucks parking lots and steal their Wi-Fi and do it. You know, I have a little to go box.

I got a little wicker box with a lid. I would have laughed at that. And every conceivable attachment. It's either not a good room on my phone.

Criminals and movies call that a go bag. But it's the opposite of a go bag because you're really taking your life with you on the road. There's a lot of hunting knives in there too. Of course.

But yeah, so I'm holding. It's a grittier version of things. I'm holding my phone. Yeah, I am already nervous about fatigue.

I honestly four times across my mind, like you're going to run into some fatigue. Well, you got a camping table. It's a fun. It's a concert to corner of the room and you just rest around.

It's very natural. I'm getting a lot of nostalgia looking at this room because I think we're from semi-similar environments. I'm from Michigan across the way from you. You go up north in the summer.

The houses and cabins are like this, like the windows behind you, why even do a crack? I mean, they're not operational. And that is standard for a cabin. Let's get you two inches of air.

Two inches of air, but also just like a full blast of mosquitoes. So just enough space for the mosquitoes. Not in the face or any pressure. And circulation of the air.

No circulation. Just hot air everywhere. Oh, God. This is great.

Hold on. There's a lot of answers. I don't see someone in there underwear before this over. I'm going to feel robbed.

You are definitely going to see that. So from Michigan in Canada, you go to a place that is twin beds only like nobody's sleeping together. There's no king size, but what it's bad. Bed's are on aid.

I made my twin bed, but Jason. Jason. Jason. Fun to him.

He did. He's like finally now's my chance to not care about really making the bed. And so we just have stacks and piles of crap everywhere. And then our kids, we have three kids in there in the opposite side of the oven.

There's a lot of ants. Yeah. Sure. Critters.

Critters. Every time we come to the cabin, because we don't own this cabin, I have to buy more silverware because there's only one fork. And like, I'd like to ask because there's nothing to drink out of. Anyway, this is a lot of fun.

Well, I was going to say, let's try to figure out what that appeals to me as well. Like it is objectively less comfortable than I assume where you normally live. You have a less of what you need. It's messing it on counterball in this box.

And yet, I too am so jealous of you right now. What happens? Why is it so pleasant? Every way we would measure comfort is out the window.

I never really articulate these thoughts or feelings, but yeah, every possible creature comfort. Do we have a nice shower with glass doors at home? Here the shower comes up to my nose. Like the shower comes up.

Is the shower carpeted on top of everything else? Oh, it's not carpeted. Okay, because that's common. It's as close as carpeted as you can get without being carpeted.

It feels carpeted. But what's wrong with this is humans? Because if this was your apartment in New York City or this was your home and I'm saying you're you physically enjoy yourself. You couldn't even have five minutes of peace sitting in that house.

And yet you're like a little bird right now. Just flying. Carefree. Carefree.

I love it so much. And I love like the little expedition to the store to get a TV table because there's not a book my house they're on. And I bring my own toaster. The whole thing is right.

And the kids are super into it. And they're just for them. Like it is total freedom here because it's a very contained area where we are. So they just know the whole routine.

We've come here every year for more than 10 years. So they just drop everything. They get on their bikes. They come back wet.

You don't know how they got that way. Yes, sure. Ocean water out front. Money.

Money. We have to have a lot of back. I did a trip to the drug store for like wound cleanser. But I've been them.

So I bet at home they skin their knee. It's a big to do. And then up there they return out after their adventure. And they probably accumulated five or six things that would require your attention back home.

But now they're better too. They don't get a shit, right? They don't give shit. They're like, it's breakfast.

We just finished our eggs. It's time for ice cream. Why isn't ice cream placed open yet? It opens at 11.

They're like, all right. Jesus Christ, I'll wait for you. I know. I know.

I scream, which is like the tower. It is heaven. I love it. It says something about it.

I think it's about resilience. People like feeling like they overcame something. You think that's what it is not sound pleasurable to me. I think it's like when you enter the process of trying to perfect your environment.

What's your on that road? That's all you think about. But then there's this elation with surrendering to like, oh, yeah, this is uncomfortable in shitty. So let's go backwards fucking nice.

And that's what we should be anyways. There's something aspirational here. Like there's something we could maybe do in our normal real life where we like treat it as if we're in a shitty cabin and name. Get over it all.

Enjoy what you're supposed to enjoy. Yeah, it's true. Like when you're like curating the floor. I've talked to me.

Yeah. You want to know how I got in show business. I'm sick of telling people how I got everything else. Meanwhile, you're getting like eating alive by fucking insects and everyone's Martin cut and everyone's happy.

We sat on the porch. I was like, I played off. Hello. I'm like 12 year olds on kick.

My ass. Wait. What's up? Hello.

I don't know how I just. It's much less complicated. She's a little harder than checkers. So the board game.

It's a board game. Oh, is it circular? The board? No.

Is it square board with circular pieces? Like a grid? Okay. Sorry.

It's pleasing to the eye. You're trying to capture the other person's pieces. There's maybe other more strategy than checkers. Now really quick about getting invested by your 12 year old.

We literally had this conversation before night's ago where I just debated my eight year old and something bad and I was young and I said, we're not too far out from we're going to lose arguments. They are the best sums of our parts. And so they're going to best us. They're smart enough.

I can see it coming. And what a weird experience that's going to be like on the business end of a great point. And on the business end of a savage takedown as well. Like cumuliet.

These people you created and if not for you, they wouldn't even be able to play this game. And here they are standing on your grave doing an end zone dance. I have a 15 year old and 13 and I have a 10 year old. When I was in the next class, I was like, you should be careful because if they turn the eye of Sauron onto you, they will cut you in ways that you have not yet imagined.

You don't know. They haven't done it to you yet. But I'm like, they've done it to me. Could we gender stereotypes that you're 10 year old and you're 15 year old that are acutely skilled at those or does the boys well know how it's all for you of them?

But my 15 year old, she will drag me on fashion and clothing in a way that is so beyond belief. She's criticizing me. And I've rethought all my life choices. And I'm like, I have a cool, but I really nailed that.

And she just the glance tells me that I really do look my actual age of 51 and maybe older. Yeah. I don't know. What a thing.

Here's why I asked is boys, you have this thread of physical violence all the time, which is terrible. There's always around every corner growing up is a way of these are missing substantial probability of being punched. But those hurt for an hour, hopefully not so whatever. But some of the stuff gals can say, which other are they are like for a lifetime.

A young woman can really hit you with some psychology that'll fucking run your life around for the for the worst. I have to tell you, I don't know. I think you need to be my son because he's a beast. Well, that's the growth we're looking for.

Yeah. Yeah. We want to call you, we want to call you. We want to be manipulative.

But he's grown up sandwich between doing. Yeah. So there's he's going to be better for that. He will be.

He can roll with any team of people. He's figured it all out before any of us. But drop his knowledge into this painful and do he and dad, but had it all as he old enough yet for that. That's the part I'm really grateful.

I'll avoid because I have two daughters. I don't want to show down in the kitchen where I'm finally decided to take his old dinosaur claim his rightful crown is the patriarch of the family. I don't want that experience. Oh, I don't want to witness that either.

I don't have much about it. But I know I'm not about lose lose. You beat your son up or you get beat up. I'm trapped in my 80s upbringing.

I definitely know that there's going to be a time when our children turn to us and they're like, oh, I'm going to take care of you now. I see that you're not really capable in this world. Yeah. I can see that you don't really have the skills like that.

My general daughter fixed my computer the other day. I was trying to do a bunch of Google needs. It was hard. And I think that this now work like I just couldn't get it.

And there's no reasonable like this is how I've made it over a year. Like I've been doing this for a really long time now. And I think I have a real facility without it. I'm not like totally behind.

And I just can get the sound work. And I was like, it's the computer. It's this, this, this lemon of a computer. This useless piece of shit.

She was like, what are you struggling with? Can I help you? I was like, I see you're getting frustrated. I like, no, you can't help me, but you could try and she went like that's me and it was all fixed.

Oh, I don't know what you did. And I was like, tell me about your dad. And I'm like, I remember, oh, it's too elementary for her to even. Yeah.

It's like asking her how she makes her heartbeat. I don't have to think about it. It just beats. I don't know.

I don't know what to tell you. Exactly. The lungs are working and everything's just doing what it's supposed to do. I mean, just does it.

Look, look, look really quick. Toronto and 80s. My mother would take us every right before school started. We did our school goal shopping there on Young Street.

And we went to all these little record shops that sold these really cheap punk rap t-shirts. None of them licensed. It was all greenprints of like exploited. We'd say at the Harbor Castle Hotel at the very end of Young Street.

Oh my god. The Harbor Castle held him. Yeah. First time ever in hot tub.

We have so much to discuss. In center edits, Ryan, Sam, the record man. Yes. Lots and lots of head shots.

I was probably standing outside to even center selling silk screen t-shirts. Like, yeah, I sold like, rap t-shirts, you know, roots like this dude that I went to work made comedy t-shirts and I just sat outside the eight center and the hot sun. Do you move a lot of product? A lot of products.

Oh, good. I don't remember when I got paid or if you even made me. You probably got like three free rap t-shirts. I know that I had to run on the police game.

I don't know how to really rest. I don't think you've not had a job in your youth that was borderline legal. Like, I certainly had one from my father where I would try to sell ads for this pamphlet. Hugs and not drugs that would perfect kids from getting on drugs and I would take meetings at the Kiwanis Club and commit some.

I wouldn't have turned to drugs if I had this thing. No, not respect. It totally was a racket. And it's a character builder.

It's like to look at these Kiwanis men, they're older and I would tell them a lie and then I asked them to buy an ad. I think it builds. Let's book. Yeah, it does build characters.

It builds something. Not to bring back to my kids again, but I do look at them and I'm like, oh my gosh, I was fully working. So I never saw to myself. I was like selling like a rastie-shirts and another job on top of that.

Yeah. Try to buy my own shoes. Like, yeah, there were no free rides. It was just like summers on time to work.

If you want to buy french fries, you are going to sell t-shirts on the corner and come back at 11. I don't want to come back tonight. Yeah, when I went to rise up, whatever the customers of average. Totally.

What did your parents do? My parents were divorced. My dad did computer stuff at college. So he re-nary and mostly lived with my mom and my grandmother.

I kind of like floated around a little bit. My mom worked for the government. I guess the Canadian equivalent of the IRS. And so I had to work and I always did.

So I don't think I had like some raffes. I probably was 14. Did she have boyfriends and step-dad and all that stuff? She did.

Yeah, she did. How'd you enjoy that? I enjoyed some more than others. I definitely am not in touch with any of them as an adult.

But they were long-term maybe three or four years at a time. The first person we lived in his house for a while, his house was really haunted. Like, it had been a hospital in the war. I was eight or nine in this decrepit, huge hospital that was kind of like several apartments where people would just kind of go to die.

And they gave me my own apartment. Oh, this was at the least amount of people dying. You're going to love this one. I don't know about that.

And they were like, it's at the very top of the house. So it's like the bathroom. The house and that's all yours. You can be a record player out there and live in the bathroom, whatever.

As I was like, oh, okay. So I had a key to my own apartment. What they have in your eight? Eight.

Oh, this is so bizarre. When you have friends over like to your apartment, what you did in your apartment? Yeah. I have a friend.

No, I also went to school like really across town. So again, unlike the kind of my kids got to school, I would like have on a streetcar to another streetcar to my school. So I was commuting myself for sure. Leaving your apartment at five.

Leave my apartment to my commute. Yeah, like eat a drive out of jang. But I had like a record player out there and hit some books up there and I had like a table and stuff like that. I'm so fucking lonely.

Are you lonely? How are your mind? I have friends at my school. And they have a child you live in their own apartment.

I think that's true. I slept in the same apartment as my mom. This was like a leisure. Oh, this is your rec room.

Anyway, the point is it was definitely scary. And I was terribly afraid of a hallway. There were such scary movies on TV like that. Oh, god.

Like the exorcist came out and I went to see Jaws when I was like seven children with a corner. They were like, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

I think it was made for TV movie. And it was like terrifying vampires. And so I was very afraid in that house. That relationship didn't last longer than a few years.

But for you, a 30 year life at that point. It was a 30 year life. I learned more in that house. My children will probably never learn the things like that.

I think you may be in their lifetime. I don't know if this is like universal to kids of divorce. Having new adults show up on the scene and they have their kind of set of rules. There's like this honeymoon phase where they're their dish or buddy and then they start parenting you and it's miserable.

Like did you have absolute hatred towards authority? I've never really interrogated this myself. I don't automatically give over my respect and appreciation to authority. I kind of go, let's see what we think here.

And I teach that to make it's doing like, okay, this person is a teacher. I think you owe them the respect of like other human being. But if they tell you to do something that is appalling to you as a human being, you have the right to go, I know this is not correct. I'm not doing this thing.

I'm not really interested to really try to parent me all that much. There wasn't much they could offer to me. I think I was more like a person in their life that was like, oh, this woman that I really did comes with this other thing that is like fucking weird. Like she just looks at me and she just was reading and she's just getting away too much.

Like I wasn't really part of their life. You made it easy on them. I made it pretty easy on them, but not on purpose just because I didn't really care about them. Were you introvert or you were just interested in your things and busy?

Very much introvert. And I also had my dad, I was not looking for dad and us from them. I was just like, hey Mike. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

You got a new car, Mike? That's cool. Can I play through commuter? No.

That's cool. I'll see you later. I'll go out. Catch a streetcar downtown.

I grew up fast. I was definitely in an adult wife of Dean. I didn't need too much. Okay.

So then how about this? Did you find adults patronizing? I was so trying to be an adult trying to be correct all the time and to be very smart. If you handle myself with adults always and when they only saw me as a child, I was always so angry about that.

I remember one time this is right here. The question in a trivial pursuit game of what adults was who is the Prince of Wales? And I said, Moby Duck and all of the adults first out laughing. And I was like, I was so angry at everybody.

I was mortified. Oh my god. My kids are looking at me like, hi. Hi.

There's a cat now. I can't climb up on the camp table. The children are everywhere. Someone's gonna come in here and what I think is it.

I hope you're ready. The computer's dancing. Let's just say this is an active scene. This is an active scene.

This is a real life active home. You're not in a studio on a controlled environment. This is very active. Anything could happen.

This is what you can expect when you podcast from. I'm trying to tell you to be quiet in a bunch of beds. Yeah. There's all there was all at one point staring in a window at me and they're like, your job is so stupid.

Yes. Yes. You're talking to a microphone. What are you doing, Mom?

What's wrong with you? No one's to hear what you're saying in a microphone. Earlier today, they were like, are you working today or something? Because you're in weird, like if you work.

They're intuitive. I do have work. Thanks for letting me know that 99 gone done. I'm just asking for your job.

I'm gonna ask one more Brian question. My mom was like, Hey, it's us four and it's a scrap. And so you three need to be helpful. You clean this house.

I'm barely making it like we're a team. I'm sorry. I can't afford you the version where you're just a kid. I was kind of entrusted to be in a doll or I was asked if I could participate in that way.

So then when I was doing the work helping raise my sister doing all this stuff and fucking adults are treating me like I was out to lunch. I found it uniquely aggravating. Like, no, no, I earned this and I'm not a fucking dummy. I know what you're talking about.

You can't talk in code around me. Like I was indignant about it. Oh, that's great. I was indignant about it too.

Like occasionally I love my dad. I love my son. I get along with them so great. Like I absolutely love them.

But they would pretend that they didn't swear. Like they would do all this like, you know, they would be like, Oh, I'm trying to catch themselves in a swear. I tried to explain something like a very young concept to me. Like I just remember my dad trying to explain to me what it was like.

I was like, I'm going to talk to my little chef in his voice. I'm like, are you fucking kidding? I just was like, I know all this stuff. Like please, I'm out to me.

I'm out here. Like, I'm on these streets. I'm selling products. I'm taking care of myself.

I have an apartment. I made dinner tonight. I made a mistake for everybody. Like I felt like a very young, very young, very young person.

That's scary to know how I talk to kids. Like I always talk to kids is if they're 40. And I guess I'll let them ask if they're confused. I don't know if it's right.

It's just like a volume my own issue. I think. No, I think it is right. I think it's right to be true to yourself.

And we talked to our kids. We don't think about it too much. I think we just talked to them like they're normal people. And like, like we're in a together routine role in this.

And so we all want to have a pleasant experience. Why are you freaking out? Like some of the things we can get through it so we can like move on. Let's keep moving.

Yes. Yes. One point in front of the other. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. My last Toronto question. We'll learn that.

Do you know him? I don't think I've ever met. I'm maybe only in a really super fleeting way, but I don't know how. Because you guys were crawling those Toronto streets at the exact same time.

I mean, I reckon it's a big city. But I would maybe over the years, both me and comedy were both into each other. Well, you know, I did comedy for a really long time. And I was in an all-female street called The American Bibles.

And we loved it before we put on shows, but we weren't like a part of the the oh, here. Because I'm trying to get a good idea. I had a peeking. I had a peeking.

I was like, I'll grab a towel. Take another peek. So active. I love it.

Great. They definitely think I'm crazy for oh, I was looking at me. She's my best. She's loving that.

I hope that this is okay. Because I can't remember the question. Oh, yeah. We did comedy for a long time.

But we put on our shows. It was like us. We'd be like, we're going to do a show in June. Let's get the poster art.

Let's pack posters up. It wasn't like we were in the comedy circles. We weren't like on television. You were like alternative.

We were so alternative. Yeah. So when I was reading about you, I feel like my journey took forever. And anytime I like read about someone who was even older, we haven't even been longer.

I just feel like kinship. I was like nine years in LA auditioning before I ever got hired for one thing. And I certainly was like, yeah, this is not going to pan out for you at all. Right.

And I think when I started working the same year, like 2003, yeah, I definitely thought I was not going to pan out for me. Oh, definitely. I had a plan B info. I was like, I can't do this anymore.

Like I can't just wait around for someone else. It's funny. Oh, it's brutal. What was the reason?

Like I had my reasons why I don't hire me. Do you have like a laundry list of reasons? I think I had my reasons. I don't really know what it was.

I think I was very uncomfortable in auditions actually. I just it's so nerve-wracking. And the thing that actually was cleansing and the thing that made everything possible was doing comedy with my off-y mouse history. Because at that point, like when I latched onto that and I was performing and getting that part out of my system and like doing the whole thing, like writing the sketches, rehearsing the sketches, making a music playlist for like the before of the show, creating a whole evening of show, including the art.

That was so fulfilling to me. And we made making money doing what we've worked for beer tickets. Like that alone was so fulfilling. Some version of me could just still be doing that now.

Yeah. I similarly look back at me in the Sunday company doing show every Sunday, writing schedule a week and buying the costumes on Thursday, they know we had that whole thing. And sadly, probably the funnest part of my entire ride in entertaining. There was no ulterior motive.

It was simply to perform on stage because there was no money and there was no promise of money. It was just very fun. Very fun. There wasn't any straight line between doing that and going like, oh, now I have a full career in the arts.

It just was like a thing that you did because you loved it. And you would hope that it would lead to something like something we were going to give you a television show. I just got a show like a good one. You were like, really, we just did it because we loved it.

And because we that was like so foundational, those building works of doing every job feeling that you had created a complete entertainment with no possibility of reward. Like doing that, finding that nut of something that I loved helped me get jobs because I no longer cared about doing well in an audition. Because I don't know if I can care. I'm really busy.

I'm going week shopping. I got a film I take on. I got to meet with like graphic designer because we're going to post those on me for the mall. So I have to type this.

And I'm trying to pick up the free tub of beer for the audience. So I got to be. Yeah. It's just occurring to me as you said that the ownership you have over those shows because I too had a troop that we did shows on the side.

And I think that's what makes us pass sketch performers a handful when you hire us because we're used having a ton of ownership over those things. And I think if you've only been an actor for hire that joins things, you probably don't have that same sense of like, I know what it feels like to be part of the direction it goes in. And I need that. Very deep into my side.

I can't hear that. I don't think about this. Very true. And my husband did, he was in a quite successful sketchy county troop.

And he's the same way. He's just very much this way. He's like, I start something from nothing. I see it through.

I'm a finisher. I had a job done from start to finish. And he brings that energy to every single job that he does. So he's not really satisfied to be like, what are my lines?

Let me learn them. And I will say them. He's like, well, I wrote this thing. Why don't you buy it?

And then I'm going to make it and I'll direct all of it. And I'm going to tell everybody else what you will also be in it. And then I'll give it to you and you can put on your television. Yeah.

Yeah. You can say thank you. Exactly. Yeah.

I bet that's where it stems from when I wanted to direct. What's it that I was sitting on a set going like, oh, I want that person's job. They blank. It was just like, I'm only doing the small submission of what I'm used to doing.

And I want to do all the things because that's the part that feels rewarding. That energy of being able to do every job or wanting to control the product or like having like really broad understanding of what kind of like all the jobs and being able to kind of call us that into one thing. It's very special. But it also was very annoying to people because I do think in this business like many business people do tend to like to say in their lane.

And once you get out of your lane a bit and like, well, what about you just did this over here? I think that would be really fun. People like, that's my department. Why are you doing it?

It makes you a bit of a control freak. And I actually think that's okay. Yes. Yeah.

I mean, it shows me nominated for 21 Mies. Oh, that's nice. I'm not ready. 21 Mies.

All right. Full frontal in six seasons. So that's nice. Thank you.

I don't think you got not many of your 21 Mies. If you show up and you're like, oh, yeah, what were you guys thinking I should do? What did you say? I'll do it.

You say again. When I pause after them, oh, you're dating and really hard. Okay. Right.

It's true. There's a lot of like paddling under the surface at all times. Stay tuned for our marks. If you're there, were you in Toronto?

I'll be able to do it. Well, I was getting ready to give up acting completely because I was like this fucking blows. There are things that I want for myself. And you're already with Jason at this point.

You guys went really, really on an apply. I think we met in 96. I think we started dating 96 or 97 is when we started dating. So I was auditioning.

And I just was like, I can't sit around anymore and wait for some magic to happen that will allow me to pay my mortgage and have just some stability. I just want to like stable home a little bit, just to be able to be able to be able to not worry every month. People like have kids and not be stressed about when the next job would. I was just like, I'm done with that part.

I can't do that anymore. And you certainly had friends peers who at this point now have a house on a skokon. Some people on speed boats. It was like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, oh, I'm not a community.

I would have stopped working someday. And I was being around a lot. And I was working at this print shop. So I was working at an ad agency in their print shop.

Well, the big decisions are made. All the big decisions. You know, like, try to like facilitate the words going out and it was so bad. Like really just so, so bad that so many bad things happen when I tried to do that job.

And the Daily Show was a show that I watched. I loved it. It was like a special appointment viewing for me husband. And so they were coming to dance.

They were looking for women because I guess in all of America, they confronted women that student. And I was like, okay, I don't find that hard to believe. I bet that was the case. Right.

Right here. So they came to Toronto to read Toronto women to read like mostly women from St. City. And I was not there because they went higher me.

And my age was like, do you want to do this? We had to round out the day. There aren't that many women that's sitting. So I see more professional.

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