Samantha Bee is pulling double duty this week with a pre and post election slice of Full Frontal. With the first episode, she’s done her best to paint a bare-bones, bad ass picture of Hillary Clinton that should help voters too exhausted to watch a full documentary or too jaded to listen to something that doesn’t have jokes in it.
Bee takes a Frontline report and a CNN documentary about Clinton and condenses it down into a segment that boils Hillary down to the Rodham that is right under the surface of the Clinton she was apparently forced to be by society and the support of her husband. If you’re familiar with Hillary Clinton, you’ve heard most of this before and know her background. If you don’t know it by now, election day, this is probably for you or you can sit there and enjoy some jokes. They’re not bad.
Yes, this is basically just some campaigning for Clinton in the final hours of this election and it’s effective. Bee is entertaining and does a good job at making Hillary entertaining in the face of other late night hosts playing up her more robotic qualities. What’s missing is the negative side of Hillary Clinton — and by extension most of the politicians in the past thirty years — but you can’t expect that from some folks on election eve.
Later in the show, Bee finally gave some time to Hillary Clinton’s emails and the announcement that came on Sunday that put the topic to rest for the FBI. Bee uses the leaks from Wikileaks to discuss what we know is in some of the emails and then puts the results to music with some help from American Horror Story‘s Sarah Paulson. Knowing that Hillary Clinton is technologically illiterate through song is pretty good and it’s funnier when you realize she’d probably ask to have that printed out after hearing it.
(Via Full Frontal)
