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FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE: NOT THE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER
May 3, 2017  | By David Bianculli

TBS, 10:00 p.m. ET

 

This is the first time since Saturday night’s live Samantha Bee special, Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, that TBS has found a place and time to repeat that show in its entirety. It’s definitely worth watching – and among its many pleasant surprises was how adept a character actress Bee was in her “period” standup routines, when she appeared in costume to play various female comics through the ages. But other elements of the show were even more brilliant, including Allison Janney’s cold open, reprising her C.J. Cregg White House press secretary character from The West Wing, and – best of all – Bee watching an underground film of an alternate reality, in which Hillary Clinton won the election, in a sci-fi spoof called The Woman in the High Castle.

 
 
 
 
 
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