Sam Bee and some fed-up famous friends just scream the f-word at lawmakers over gun control
Screenshot: Full Frontal
Look, something has to work, right? As America endures a first quarter of 2021 featuring more than one mass shooting per day (and yes, you read that right), gun control advocates and people who just plain don’t want to have to have a gun-death funeral black outfit pressed at all times can start to feel a little numb to all this needless, uniquely American horror. Just ask Samantha Bee, who started off a bucolic outdoor
Full Frontal segment during an episode focused entirely on this daily bloody bullet-storm by confessing, “Every week, I host a comedy show about the most depressing topics in the universe. So you’d think I’d be used to the constant tragedy that makes up the fabric of this hellscape of a country.” Unfortunately, as the host notes ruefully, she’s “still a person,” meaning that spending each day ducking either the news of another senseless mass shooting or the potential hail of actual gunfire from another senseless mass shooting has Bee a little down. Or, as she put it more accurately, “I am disgusted, and hurt, and pissed off.”