Full Frontal Episode Review: Samantha Bee Shines Light on the Sunshine State

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Like everybody else in the business of creating comedy, Samantha Bee began her most recent show with a reference to the horrific massacre in Orlando. Unlike some others though, she stayed on the topic until she had taken us on a much-needed tour of the anger we feel over it. No, this was far from a modern Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-in. No rolling on the floor while you L out L. Even so, Ms. Bee was able to inject a full measure of her sharp sarcasm into, not only the opening segment, but the entire show, all of which seemed to be centered on Florida.

I have provided a link to the opening segment below, because it is the most important of the three in the show. That said, the other two were far from being irrelevant. Now, here is your narrator sounding like a broken record: if you missed it the first time out, you should catch the entire show when you get a chance.

Knowing that the Orlando shooting was the work of a deranged man, and having already made the point that it may not be entirely prudent to sell firearms to people of that ilk, Ms. Bee took on the other side of the issue in her next segment. Many of your NRA apologists will make the point that, it “does no good” to keep assault weapons away from crazies. The answer lies in better mental health intervention. Even if we were to buy a small fraction of that notion, the second segment of Full Frontal points out another inconvenient truth. While reasonable gun control has made no progress, mental health has actually been regressing. In state after state, including Florida, budgets for mental health needs have been shrinking and facilities closing, even as mass shootings have been rampaging. In the case of Florida, the first to wield the meat cleaver was Jeb “Jeb!” Bush, for whom we now have something else to thank besides the rigging of the 2000 election.

The third segment was not so much about Florida as it was about a decidedly less lethal event that also took place there. After having interviewed the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate, Gary Johnson, last week, she gave us a look at the convention in which Johnson got the nod over a number of people to whom some variation of bat guano should be and, probably, often is applied to their sanity. I would not say that any of them should be committed to a facility (even if one were available which it probably would not be), but by the same token, I think we may want to think twice before tipping them off to the next Assault Rifle Palooza.

Full Frontal, TBS, June 13, 2016

 

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Thomas Cleveland Lane

Thomas Cleveland Lane is a semi-retired freelance writer for pay and a stage actor for nothing more than the opportunity to make a fool of himself. Well, he does get a small stipend from the Washington Area Decency League, after playing the role of Hinezie in The Pajama Game, to never, ever appear on stage in his underpants again. When he has not managed to buffalo some director into casting him, Thomas can often be found at his favorite piano bar, annoying the patrons with his caterwauling. Thomas is the author of an anthology called Shaggy Dogs, a Collection of Not-So-Short Stories (destined to become a cult classic, shortly after he croaks). He is also the alter-ego to a very unbalanced Czech poet named Glub Dzmc. Mr. Lane generally resides in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and was last seen in the mirror, three days ago.
Thomas Cleveland Lane
Thomas Cleveland Lane
Thomas Cleveland Lane is a semi-retired freelance writer for pay and a stage actor for nothing more than the opportunity to make a fool of himself. Well, he does get a small stipend from the Washington Area Decency League, after playing the role of Hinezie in The Pajama Game, to never, ever appear on stage in his underpants again. When he has not managed to buffalo some director into casting him, Thomas can often be found at his favorite piano bar, annoying the patrons with his caterwauling. Thomas is the author of an anthology called Shaggy Dogs, a Collection of Not-So-Short Stories (destined to become a cult classic, shortly after he croaks). He is also the alter-ego to a very unbalanced Czech poet named Glub Dzmc. Mr. Lane generally resides in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and was last seen in the mirror, three days ago.