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Speaking for myself, I try to go out there on the stage and make jokes with people, so I'm not really thinking about the impact anything I have. If it does resonate with people, that's really great.

Samantha Bee

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Samantha Bee
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 25
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City of Toronto
Samantha Anne Bee
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I don't feel like any of the things we're talking about are going to make the world end.
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I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.
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Christmas: It's the only religious holiday that's also a federal holiday. That way, Christians can go to their services, and everyone else can sit at home and reflect on the true meaning of the separation of church and state.
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I know, it's amazing to people that we have a political system, but we do.
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If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job.
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Hopefully the person I'm trying to create is just a funny, dour, evil side of myself that has no other way to express itself. I don't model it after anyone in particular. Who would be like that? Who? I wouldn't want to meet that person. I wouldn't want to be interviewed by that person, I can tell you that.
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I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.
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It's very disconcerting to have a camera shoved in your face. It's really discombobulating. If you're the least bit nervous you forget what you just said, you can't find your way through, you can't follow the logic of your own statements sometimes. It's a weird sensation. And I think that really helps to lock people in place.
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You've got to have gumption. You've got to be willing to stand up on the stage for no money for ten years.
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I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.
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It's very Canadian of me - or maybe it's more the Catholic schoolgirl in me - but I always really want to do a good job.
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I want to get a gold star. And I know that there are places that I need to go in order to get the story right. I'd rather do it right than have to do it twice.
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When you can agree on one thing, you should have no expectation that suddenly a person is converted to your way of thinking. You have to be willing to be frustrated constantly.
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Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and death. My parents used to sing me to sleep with that one.
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I am a cookbook fanatic.
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It's weird how you can make people feel comfortable, and then ask them an uncomfortable question, but it doesn't ruin their day.
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I'm not even reading about the U.S. election, I'm just totally involved in the Canadian one.
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