The only woman with a late-night show says “It’s liberating.”

With the launch of Full Frontal, Samantha Bee became the lone female voice among late-night hosts, a position Katie Couric understands better than anyone. Bee is also a key part of the class that graduated from Jon Stewart’s time as host of The Daily Show. Couric and Bee take stock of Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, which was thrust into what might be the strangest election in American history. Bee reflects on her career, which started with sketch comedy in Canadian dive bars, and transformed overnight as she went from a Daily Show superfan to employed correspondent. Couric and Bee discuss their shared perspective on the Republican presidential candidate, which has resulted in some of Full Frontal’s most scathing and hilarious work to date. Bee addresses the recent criticism that politically minded comedians are injecting too much bias into their work. Bee is frank and unapologetic, arguing that nobody is attempting to deprive conservative culture of its voice, while unsympathetic that the right has been made uncomfortable by the rise of dissenting opinions. Her counterpoint is that the generation tuning into Full Frontal, Last Week, or The Daily Show aren’t exactly pining for the halcyon days of non-confrontational hosts who