Well, I've got another "must-TiVo" show each week. I thought the first installment of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee was terrific, maybe the best first episode I've seen from a comedy/satire series. It reruns several times before next Monday's second episode and I suggest you catch one of them. It was so topical that it may not be repeated after that. Jon Stewart once said that the problem with shows like his is that they have "the shelf life of potato salad."
Ms. Bee, of course, did outstanding work on Mr. Stewart's show. She's a very funny lady and my one slight disappointment in her debut show was that she disappeared from the final segment…a very penetrating (i.e., not nice but not unfair) look at what's happened with the Jeb Bush campaign. I think folks have made too much of that clip of Jeb finishing what was for him an almost-fiery speech and then having to ask the audience to "Please clap." It didn't seem as bad to me as some are making it out to be. It just seemed like his audience wasn't sure he had some to the end of his paragraph and that this might be the proper time to applaud. But the rest of the piece on Full Frontal seemed pretty much on-target.
I liked very much what Samantha Bee is doing but I worry that she's doing it on the wrong network in the wrong time slot. Comedy Central was unwise to let this one get away.