the new yorker calls samantha bee america's new comedian in chief. ian crouch writes in the new yorker one of the trump's few awe sense to the white house is the fact that bee is there to hold him and the rest of us to account. the series nominated for seven series awards including outstanding talk series and writing for a variety series. full frontal's not the whitehouse correspondent dinner is also nominated for outestablishedding variety specials. and last week's episode samantha bee traveled to kurdistan where she found a surprising amount of public support for president trump. here is a look. >> do you think donald trump is your best chance. when donald trump went to black people and said what have you got to lose. no one else is going to do it. why. >> i believe -- >> what. >> is the reason. >> i can be. >> rose: joining me now is the creator and star of full frontal samantha bee, head writer joe smirl and executive producer miles kahn. i pleased to have you all at this stable. is the success of this thing just making you giddy and you're lovin

tonight, stephen welcomes: samantha bee. gillian jacobs. and musical guest, spoon. featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: thank you very much! hey, what's going on my friends? welcome to the "late show" everybody, i'm your host, stephen colbert. i am feeling blessed tonight, thanks to one man: white house communications director and guy ordering a martini at the bowling alley, anthony scaramucci. the mooch! the mooch! i was worried when sean spicer left, that the communications office of the white house would lose some flavah. little did i know that he was going to be replaced by a guy who serves up very spicy quotes. we played this last night, but i just want seconds. >> what i don't like about washington is, people do not let you know how they feel. they're very nice to your face, and then they take a shiv or a machete and they stab it in your back. i don't like it. i'm a wall street guy, and i'm more of a fr

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tonight, stephen welcomes: samantha bee. gillian jacobs. and musical guest, spoon.

tonight, stephen welcomes: samantha bee. gillian jacobs. and musical guest, spoon.

tonight, stephen welcomes: samantha bee. gillian jacobs. and musical guest, spoon.

there was john oliver, you, samantha bee, trevor. i'm the only one that didn't come from "the daily show." >> stephen: wow, what a refreshing change of pace. >> it's weird being australian because i don't feel like people want to hear news from australians. if you have a john oliver or you or millie bobby brown read something, it sounds like it's got an authority to it. >> stephen: well, i would say american accents are familiar to us and english accents sound smart to us. what do you think the australian accent -- >> this is the thing, if there was a fire in building now and a british accent said there's a fire in the building, please leave the building, you would get up and run. in my voice, it's, there's a fire, everyone, everyone -- you're in a lot of danger -- you would be, like, oh, he'll be okay. ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> stephen: like you're inviting us to a party. there's a fire, everyone. come on. >> yeah, you're probably cooking a shrimp somewhere. >> stephen: that's your impression of an american doing an impression of

certainly stephen colbert has done interviews, samantha bee as well, that the actual process, of the making of the show that was not something that was kept secret, but was kept close because jon and everyone else was so focused on those four days a week. and just getting it done. a that is a really hard job. the actual process, the evolution, the growth internally and externally, was a story best told by the people who lived it. charlie: so you go to john, and everyone else and asked them if they would do this and cooperate and instantly they said yes? jon: yes, i have known him for a long time. i have known chris a long time and always enjoyed his reporting. he always came at things from a really thorough and fair -- when you are reading his work, in new york magazine and other places, it always felt invested but not purposefully pejorative. it was just really well done. and i thought we were so involved over the 16 years, people have always said, what was it like? what was your favorite part? and i would say, i do not know -- charlie: you learn something about it -- jon: absolutel

i did not look up samantha bee or oliver or why it. i just tried to be myself, so i ended up -- charlie: i think that is the best thing to be. >> i am still learning it. to your authenticity own self. you own you are. >> i think people really respond to something that is truthful. sometimes, your truth is not the right fit for certain things, but once it finds its way, then people really get into it. charlie: most of the skits we saw you do, most of the time, you were doing something on location, was it created by you? was it your idea?or did it come from producers at the daily show? >> the daily show is such a machine. producers would throw stuff out and pitch it. john would throw stuff out. that is what we would do. catalog of work is just a mixture of all of the sort of amazing people that have worked on the show and everything that came together. charlie: do you grow simply by doing it? do have the opportunity to almost everything. you do it and listen to people who are there with you and figure out at every test by participating w

. >> seth and his late night team are nominated in that category with writers for samantha bee, john oliver, stephen colbert, and his old show "saturday night live." it airs weeknights at 12:35, 11:35 p.m. central on nbc. for a behind the scenes look at how they put together "a closer look" every night as the news changes by the minute, check out today extras. and next week, sunday sit down with adam driver, first caught our attention alongside lean a dunham in "girls" and exploded into stardom in "star wars." dpr great conversation >>> good morning. i'm first alert meteorologist krystal klei. 86 for summerten and 87 in center city. allen town you're also looking at a high of 84 degrees. although easton at a high of 82 for it the afternoon. 83 for atlantic city. and in delaware, mid-80s as well. >>> next on "sunday today," jenna bush hager on a rare moment of bipartisanship in washingt washington to deliver new high tech training for veterans after they come back home. the bathroom. when things go wrong here, you remember. quilted northern is designed to work so well, you can forget

>> all the comedians that came out of stewart's shop, the larry will more, john oliver, samantha bee, they're saying what they feel, they're very passionate, pointed and very partisan. and i think they make no bones about it. >> on this show your voice will be heard, in the form of my voice. because you're looking at a straight shooter, america. i tell it like it is. i calls them like i sees them. i will speak to you in plain, simple english. and that brings us to tonight's word. truthiness. >> what colbert did was remarkable because he was playing a very arched character that was obviously based on fox news personalities. >> caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. >> this is all an act. >> you're break my heart. >> if you're an act, then what am i? >> with this character, he was improvising everything in real time from an inverse point of view. >> a lot of right-wingers thought that colbert actually is a republic and he's just cheeky. >> they didn't know that it was a joke. i mean, come on. >> prent bush, great president or the greatest president? >> he did that classic sat

certainly stephen colbert has done interviews, samantha bee has done interviews but the actual process, the making of the show, that wasn't something that was exactly kept secretary represent but-- secret because it was kept close because jon and everybody else was so focused on those four days a weekment and just getting it done. and that's a really hard job. that the actual process, the making of the show, the evolution, the growth, internally and externally was a story best told by the people who lived lived it. >> rose: so you have to go to jon, to everybody else and say would you do this, will you cooperate. instant for you you said yes, let's do it. >> i have known chris for a very long time and always enjoyed his reporting because i thought it was always-- it was never, he always came at things from a really thorough and fair. when you were reading his work in new york magazine, and in other places it always felt invested, but not, you know, purposefully per jor tiff t was really well done. and i thought we were so involved over those 16 years. and people have always said, what

i didn't look up samantha bee or oliver or wyatt. i really just tried to be myself. so i ended up -- >> rose: that's the best way to be. >> i think so. i think that's the hardest thing to do. i'm still learning it. >> rose: authenticity, you own who you are. >> yeah, i think people really respond to something that's truthful. i think sometimes your truth isn't the right fit for certain things, but i think once it finds its way, people really get into it. >> rose: most to have the skits we saw you do -- i'm not sure skits is the right word -- but most of the times you were doing something on location, was it created by you, was it your idea or did it come from producers at "the daily show"? >> it was everything. i think "the daily show" is such a machine. a lot of times especially when i was there, producers would throw stuff out, pitch it. john would throw stuff out and that's what we would do. my whole catalog of work is a mixture of the amazing people who have worked on the show. >> rose: at this stage do you grow simply by doing it? you now have an opportunity to