# Is Samantha Bee awesome or what? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-samantha-bee-awesome-or-what/748548 "2016-03-10T15:33:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-samantha-bee-awesome-or-what/748548/42 "2016-03-31T02:54:36Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > When your audience is young and not necessarily committed politically, then mocking Republicans is pandering. It’s lazy comedy, and cheap laughs. Back in the day Leno and Letterman would mock politicians without appearing to have any agenda. They learned that from Carson. It took a genuine whit and clever writing. Now it’s just Obama is awesome and Republicans are evil, puppy-kicking Nazis. > > How clever. Yawn… I guess you never checked out the show, either. The very first bit (besides the opening) in the first episode was about how stupid both Bernie and Hillary were in the Democratic debates. I’d just read your comment, and so it made me laugh all that much harder. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-samantha-bee-awesome-or-what/748548/43 "2016-03-31T13:21:15Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I guess you never checked out the show, either. The very first bit (besides the opening) in the first episode was about how stupid both Bernie and Hillary were in the Democratic debates. I’d just read your comment, and so it made me laugh all that much harder. Yeah, it’s completely fine to not be interested in something and not watch it, but it’s weird to have specific criticisms of something you haven’t watched, since those specific criticisms could be absolutely wrong. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-samantha-bee-awesome-or-what/748548/44 "2016-03-31T14:11:25Z")
Also, I think it’s odd to suggest that Bee’s audience is not committed politically. I would guess that there are a lot of carry over viewers from the Daily Show, which was a very politically engaged audience. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-samantha-bee-awesome-or-what/748548.md?page=2)