Samantha Bee says working on quarantined Full Frontal episodes with husband Jason Jones "is like going back to our roots"

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“We have worked together on low-budget stuff all the time," Bee said of her husband, who's been working the camera as Bee tapes her TBS late-night show in her backyard. "We’ve duct-taped things, we’ve rigged stuff that should have been impossible.... Listen we don’t want to be doing the show in the forest, but if we’re in the forest we can do a show there. And we’re having fun with it." Bee said, however, she can't wait to have a studio audience again. “That's like oxygen to me, hearing people's laughter and claps," she said. "But I don’t mind having the birds and squirrels as my audience for now. Maybe that’s a testimony to how many empty rooms I’ve played in my life."

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• Samantha Bee described as "a Swiss Army Knife of humans": "Luckily, Sam is sort of a Swiss Army Knife of humans, she can do anything," says Full Frontal executive producer Alison Camillo. "Oh, that was the one thing she did grab—she grabbed a whole bunch of her wardrobe before she went home. She just had, like, a giant bag full of blazers that she took back to her house. She knows how to do her own hair and makeup, which is incredible. And then Jason (Jones), her husband, is a writer/producer/director, so that was a fantastically lucky break."
• Bee's latest Full Frontal introduces "Coronavirus For Her" and "Sam vs. Wild"