Samantha Bee responded to Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels’ “negative” mention of her in the new biography Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, wherein he’s quoted describing Bee as “one-sided and strident.”
“I mean, literally—imagine calling anyone strident when you have built a career out of elevating the loudest guy in the room,” Bee said on the latest episode of The Daily Beast Podcast in conversation with co-host and Daily Beast chief content officer Joanna Coles. Michaels made the comment to biographer Susan Morrison for the book, while recalling how he tries to keep SNL from leaning too far politically left or right.
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