Samantha Bee claps back at SNL boss Lorne Michaels over 2016 insult - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 02-13-2025, 09:46 PM

https://www.thedailybeast.com/samant...michaels-diss/

In Susan Morrison's upcoming biography Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, Michaels is quoted as saying two weeks before the 2016 presidential election in response to criticism for allowing Donald Trump to host in 2015: “It’s the hardest thing for me to explain to this generation that the show is nonpartisan. We have our biases, we have our people we like better than others, but you can’t be Samantha Bee. (Morrison adds that he “meant one-sided and strident.”). In response, Bee said on The Daily Beast Podcast: "I mean, literally—imagine calling anyone strident when you have built a career out of elevating the loudest guy in the room." Bee added: "I get referenced in the book, as I learned on the Daily Beast, as being someone that (Michaels) does not want to emulate in any way. I concede the point. He’s right. I am one-sided. And I am strident, and proudly so.” Bee added that she only has positive things to say about SNL, which she grew up watching. "As a young kid, it felt like an illicit pleasure. It’s just all in my consciousness and I love it," she said.

Chocolate Moose · 02-14-2025, 12:08 PM

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02-13-2025, 09:46 PM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 127,210	Samantha Bee claps back at SNL boss Lorne Michaels over 2016 insult https://www.thedailybeast.com/samant...michaels-diss/ In Susan Morrison's upcoming biography Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, Michaels is quoted as saying two weeks before the 2016 presidential election in response to criticism for allowing Donald Trump to host in 2015: “It’s the hardest thing for me to explain to this generation that the show is nonpartisan. We have our biases, we have our people we like better than others, but you can’t be Samantha Bee. (Morrison adds that he “meant one-sided and strident.”). In response, Bee said on The Daily Beast Podcast: "I mean, literally—imagine calling anyone strident when you have built a career out of elevating the loudest guy in the room." Bee added: "I get referenced in the book, as I learned on the Daily Beast, as being someone that (Michaels) does not want to emulate in any way. I concede the point. He’s right. I am one-sided. And I am strident, and proudly so.” Bee added that she only has positive things to say about SNL, which she grew up watching. "As a young kid, it felt like an illicit pleasure. It’s just all in my consciousness and I love it," she said.

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