Salon Gives Love To Samantha Bee and Throws Shade at Trevor Noah

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The geniuses over at Comedy Central keep their jobs despite losing Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert and Jon Oliver. Now Salon.com is making the case that letting Samantha Bee get away should leave Comedy Central execs sobbing as well.

Salon.com’s Steve Almond is asking Comedy Central to give Samantha Bee the Daily Show, arguing that they are squandering Jon Stewart’s legacy on Trevor Noah, saying he’s made the show largely irrelevant. Samantha Bee’s new show, “Full Frontal” they argue, is an instant phenomenon and a revelation.

Almond says Samantha Bee has what Stewart had, “an authentic sense of moral rage.” That, he argues, is what made Stewart alluring to his audience. “He was able to use his bemused Everyman shtick to confront the heartbreaking decay of our democratic institutions. We wanted to see his wit and his conscience at work on the problem of our civic dysfunction. We wanted his take.”

Read the full article at Salon.com.

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