History Series / FullFrontalWithSamanthaBee

* CanadaEh: During a segment on the upcoming Canadian 2019 general election, Sam and Alana politely ask other Canadians to vote, exclaiming that making demands will piss Canadians off. So, they politely ask Canadians to vote, then switch to a thick Canadian accent and threaten to unleash the hockey goon in Alana. Sam pleads with Alana to “hold yourself off eh!”

** And one of the show's commercials does a BaitAndSwitch. ("Sam, most people think you're unfit to talk about America due to being a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox6WANLR67E C-word]]. [[CanadaEh Canadian]].")

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Bnevx7vco Fantastic Words and Where Not to Find Them]]'' takes this and crosses into [[invoked]] TrueArtIsIncomprehensible.

* BleepDammit: A very unusual case where the censorship and lack of censorship happens to ''the same word''. To honor his [[invoked]] [[WriterRevolt rebellious sass]] against the UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump White House, Samantha presents Creator/{{CNN}}'s Creator/JakeTapper with a "Thunder [[CountryMatters Cunt]] Award" (named after a Twitter InsultBackfire she received during the election) and accompanying T-Shirt. The spoken word cunt is uncensored, as is when it's written out when the offending Tweet is shown, but when they show Jake's T-shirt the word is pixellated (it's TV censorship rather than part of the design, as you can see the blurred pixels move).

** As part of a report about sexual harrassment, Sam interviewed Gretchen Carlson (who left Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}} after accusting its CEO Roger Ailes of sexual harrassment), which Sam admitted was a good sport on her part after Sam had mocked her for many years at [[Series/TheDailyShowWithJonStewart her previous job]].

* {{Corpsing}}: Correspondent Ashley Nicole Black [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPa9_lSEX08 broke Adam Schiff.]] ([[NamesTheSame Not]] [[Series/LawAndOrder that one]].)

-->'''Sam:''' Now ''that'' is a ''Film/{{Disclosure}}'' I don't need! Man, talk about ''Film/TheGame''. ''Film/FallingDown''? More like ''going down''! Michael Douglas has a ''Film/FatalAttraction'' to pussy. He should have had the ''Film/BasicInstinct'' to use a dental dam. He was in ''Film/AntMan1'' but he was also in your ''aunt, man''. ''[{{Beat}}]'' ''Series/TheKominskyMethod''.

** Of course, not all takedowns have to be exclusively political. One example is in a segment about voting difficulties during the 2020 election, specifically Sam's reaction to reports that in Georgia people were in line for up to ten hours to vote.

** The GOP's convention in Cleveland was stated to have taken place at the "Wrong Side of History Arena".

** One of the show's commercials had Sam going to an exposition of portraits of late night show hosts (showcasing how all of them were men), before being offered sausages by a waiter (it was a sausage party), who describes some of them as "mild" (as a picture of Creator/JimmyFallon, host of ''Series/{{The Tonight Show|StarringJimmyFallon}}'' is shown) and "I have no idea what that one is" (as a picture of James Corden, host of ''Series/TheLateLateShow'' is shown), though he says that he "has heard good things about the English banger" (as a picture of Creator/JohnOliver, host of ''Series/{{Last Week Tonight|WithJohnOliver}}'' is shown), before she says that she's "done with sausages."

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: After Sam moved the tapings of her show to her extense backyard during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, she would use a wooden shed in particular to present the show's musical acts (albeit as a segue rather than actually having them perform at the shed, due to said pandemic's quarantine). However, the shed was later destroyed when a tree fell on it (apparently during a tropical storm), which Sam integrated on the show [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnLX5GOF-C8 while still making a joke about it]], as Sam "discovered" the shed was destroyed when she was ''just about'' to present the last surviving [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]], Music/PaulMcCartney and Music/RingoStarr.

* {{Joisey}}: In a segment about Syrian refugees living in New Jersey, Samantha pokes fun at the fact that they actually find the place quite delightful (the fact that it's not ground zero for an apocalyptic holy war might have something to do with that), observing with mock pity that they're so new to the country that they don't know they're supposed to hate it.

* HistoricalInJoke: Some skits set in different time periods tend to have this. One example is of Sam [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0QkcRgnbBU at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.]] At first is seems to be only [[DeliberateValuesDissonance deliberately centered on the values of the time]], such as Sam (or "Sammy B") [[NeverASelfMadeWoman having to thank her husband for allowing her to report there]], before she announces that Hubert Humphrey won the nomination, which starts a riot in which she gets caught. That's right, Sam got caught in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention#The_Chicago_Police_riot 1968 Chicago riots.]]

* DistaffCounterpart: To ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'', another news satire series starring an immigrant who used to be a correspondent for ''The Daily Show''. Both shows air once a week and tend to do longer-form segments that do deep dives into overlooked political issues - and in fact are shot in the same studio with the same director. Could also be an AlternateCompanyEquivalent, aside from the fact both HBO and TBS are owned by Time Warner.

* BleepDammit: A very unusual case where the censorship and lack of censorship happens to ''the same word''. To honor his [[invoked]] [[WriterRevolt rebellious sass]] against the Trump White House, Samantha presents Creator/{{CNN}}'s Creator/JakeTapper with a "Thunder [[CountryMatters Cunt]] Award" (named after a Twitter InsultBackfire she received during the election) and accompanying T-Shirt. The spoken word cunt is uncensored, as is when it's written out when the offending Tweet is shown, but when they show Jake's T-shirt the word is pixellated (it's TV censorship rather than part of the design, as you can see the blurred pixels move).

** The GOP's convention in Cleveland was stated to have taken place at the "[[SocietyMarchesOn Wrong Side of History]] Arena".

** For Christmas 2016, Sam spent a Christmas dinner with Radio/GlennBeck, who stated that, while he's pretty sure that his followers probably hate Sam's guts, he regrets the way he expressed his opinions in the past.

-->'''Sam:''' Now ''that'' is a ''Film/{{Disclosure}}'' I don't need! Man, talk about ''Film/TheGame''. ''Film/FallingDown''? More like ''going down''! Michael Douglas has a ''Film/FatalAttraction'' to pussy. He should have had the ''Film/BasicInstinct'' to use a dental dam. He was in ''Film/AntMan1'' but he was also in your ''aunt, man''.

* NotSoDifferent: [[https://youtu.be/BefoApqJ3wo While discussing mega-donor Tom Steyer's campaign for impeaching Donald Trump]] ([[MissingStepsPlan and how short-sighted it actually is]]), Mike Rubins realizes that Steyer is also a media-savvy billionaire insisting only he knows precisely what's wrong with American politics and that he can somehow fix everything. Needless to say, the show wasn't surprised when Steyer presented himself as a presidential candidate during the 2020 Democratic primaries.

* CanadaEh: During a segment on the upcoming Canadian 2018 general election, Sam and Alana politely ask other Canadians to vote, exclaiming that making demands will piss Canadians off. So, they politely ask Canadians to vote, then switch to a thick Canadian accent and threaten to unleash the hockey goon in Alana. Sam pleads with Alana to “hold yourself off eh!”

* BleepDammit: A very unusual case where the censorship and lack of censorship happens to ''the same word''. To honor his [[WriterRevolt rebellious sass]] against the Trump White House, Samantha presents Creator/{{CNN}}'s Creator/JakeTapper with a "Thunder [[CountryMatters Cunt]] Award" (named after a Twitter InsultBackfire she received during the election) and accompanying T-Shirt. The spoken word cunt is uncensored, as is when it's written out when the offending Tweet is shown, but when they show Jake's T-shirt the word is pixellated (it's TV censorship rather than part of the design, as you can see the blurred pixels move).

* RealSongThemeTune: The show uses "Boys Wanna Be Her" by Music/{{Peaches}} as its theme. Peaches herself played the song live at the Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

* NotSoDifferent: [[https://youtu.be/BefoApqJ3wo While discussing mega-donor Tom Steyer's campaign for impeaching Donald Trump]] ([[MissingStepsPlan and how short-sighted it actually is]]), Mike Rubins realizes that Steyer is also a media-savvy billionaire insisting only he knows precisely what's wrong with American politics and that he can somehow fix everything.

* RealSongThemeTune: [[invoked]] The show uses "Boys Wanna Be Her" by Music/{{Peaches}} as its theme. Peaches herself played the song live at the Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner.