While “Daily Show” correspondent Samantha Bee is a big fan of politics, she doesn’t really think it’s a healthy lifestyle choice.
“You know how when people have children who want to go into the arts some parents get really disturbed by that and they get upset and they feel like their child has no future?” she asked Yeas & Nays. “For me, if my child told me that they wanted to go into politics, I would have that reaction. Please be a drummer in a death metal band, don’t go into politics,” she added, laughing.
Bee was buzzing about Washington, politicians and, of course, her new book, “I know I am, but what are you?” when she was in D.C. Saturday for a reading at Border’s.
Washington, Bee said, couldn’t be funnier. “Keep on doing what you’re doing, it’s wonderful,” she said, letting slip that “The Daily Show” may film in town before November’s midterm elections. “That’s the rumor around the office, so I feel that this city will not disappoint in the comedic fodder it produces.”
Though when it comes to the politicians, some could use some work. “Sometimes when we interview them on the show they have terrible senses of humor and then when their segment airs they pretend they were in on it the whole time,” Bee explained.
While her work at “The Daily Show” revolves around politics, she stepped away from the subject when writing her first book. Instead, her personal essays detail her youth — from her crush on Jesus Christ to learning the facts of life in the chapter titled “the birds and the Bee.”
And though she’s keeping busy with the book tour and the TV show, she has another thing on the agenda before the midterms as well. “I have to have a baby really fast,” the again-pregnant comedian said. She’s due in August.
