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While it's ridiculous that this is even a topic in our national discourse, a lot of people have been throwing around arguments against women in the military these days. First there was Rick Santorum saying that male soldiers will have a harder time doing their jobs because they won't be able to surpress their instincts to protect their female counterparts and now veteran journalist Liz Trotta is saying that by entering the predominantly male armed forces, women should expect to get sexually assaulted. Luckily, Daily Show correspondent Samantha Bee is here to apologize on behalf of women for putting men in this terrible position, both on the battle field and in society at large. "You don't bring the fruit, if you don't want it to get picked." More »
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Last night, Samantha Bee, Cybill Shepherd, Dr. Ruth, Cosmopolitan's editor-in-chief, and a lot of rich people gathered to wish the Pill a happy 50th over steak and cocktails. It was pretty fun, especially when Samantha Bee laid into Cosmo. More »
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The Daily Show is many things: progressive darling, alleged news source for America's youth, righteous media critique. And it's also a boys' club where women's contributions are often ignored and dismissed. More »
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On The Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart made us watch Joe Scarborough pumping his fist and declaring "women power" because of Tuesday's primary results. And Samantha Bee explained why she wasn't all that thrilled about the whole thing. More »
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• In an explosive new interview, Courteney Cox reveals that while shooting Friends, she and Jennifer Aniston ate together every single day for 10 years, "And we always had the same thing — a Cobb salad..."

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On why she's in favor of minimal lady-grooming. [The Frisky] More »
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Olivia Munn debuted on The Daily Show last night as its "senior Asian correspondent," in what's being called a tryout. The co-host of Attack of the Show will be the second woman currently on the show, and its fifth ever. More »
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She's blogging over at GQ and expressing disappointment in the magazine itself: "I would have appreciated at least one article dedicated to how shitty you all feel about your bodies and/or how to be more coquettish in the bedroom." [GQ] More »
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On The Daily Show last night, Samantha Bee was on hand to give us a little history lesson about suffering in the Catholic Church. More »
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Last night's Samantha Bee segment on The Daily Show made me kind of uncomfortable. And it wasn't from imagining what it might be like to walk around in tight pants and a fake penis, as Bee did. More »
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• Jim Carrey's daughter, Jane, gave birth to a son named Jackson Riley Santana, which means that Ace Ventura is someone's grandfather, which means that I'm getting old. I'm also looking for Ray Finkle. And a clean pair of shorts! [People]

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Between the mancession, the network news anchors, and running only 485 of the Fortune 500 companies, it's hard out there for a dude. More »
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With her flowing hair and her shelf full of trophies, Samantha's the kind of girl you hate because she's good at everything. More »
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On last night's Daily Show, Samantha Bee talked to Fox commentator Noelle Nikpour about Obama's evil socialist Christmas ornament agenda. But the best part of the segment was when Bee solicited reactions to ornament-gate from schoolchildren. More »
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Jon Stewart, suffering from significant disappointment that Sarah Palin resigned during his week off, had correspondent Samantha Bee attempt to explain it all to him. Because, while Stewart understands "Harvard basketball," Bee said he doesn't know "maverick basketball." More »
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In a swell interview with Babble, Daily Show funny lady Samantha Bee talks motherhood and office sex with fellow correspondent Jason Jones. We extract the highlights for you. More »
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On last night's Daily Show, Sam Bee took on John McCain's use of air quotes — or, in the parlance of Jon Stewart, "dick fingers" — when talking about women's health at the final presidential debate. We're all just looking for a golden ticket to the abortion factory, dontcha know! And as Bee says, we're willing to go to extreme measures to get there: severe uterine infections, dying, etc. etc. If McCain had a baby growing in his penis as a result of a rape, Bee argues, "he would want it publicly discussed at the same level of abstraction, without concern for his specific 'life' or 'penis.'" She adds, "People can disagree about abortion, but still agree about the unimportance of women's health." Oy. Clip above. More »
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Daily Show power couple Samantha Bee and Jason Jones have just inked a deal to write and star in a new comedy for CBS, Variety is reporting. The as yet unnamed comedy "will revolve around the behind-the-scenes world of a celebrity chef (played by Jones) and the two women who run his cooking empire (one of whom will be played by Bee)." This is an obvious attempt to bring the median age of CBS viewers down to 72, and we like it! [Variety] More »
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Samantha Bee and Colbert Report producer Allison Silverman were awesome as per ush on a panel about Political Humor at the New Yorker Festival on Saturday. An audience member asked them a question about whether it is difficult to be a woman in comedy, and Allison responded, "Reading that Christopher Hitchens piece [about how women aren't funny], I didn't get upset at all. It was just an old man yelling at cars from his yard." Later, when asked if she worried that satire made people apathetic about politics, Samantha said she didn't really worry about it. "My potty mouth, my dirty mind, that's what informs me. I only worry about being funny and original." [New Yorker Festival] More »
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Since the press still isn't getting any access to Sarah Palin, Samantha Bee decided to take matters into her own hands on last night's Daily Show. No film clips from Palin's U.N. meetings with Kissinger, Afghan President Hamid Karzai or Colombian President Uribe? No problem! Bee just showed clips from Star Wars, The King and I, and Basic Instinct to illustrate what probably went down in those super secret meetings. "You believe the Governor of Alaska briefly flashed her lady parts to the President of Colombia?" Jon inquires. To which Sam replies, "Well I was not in the room, but I have no evidence she did not…" Clip above. More »
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Last night The Daily Show tried to figure out if celebrity endorsements by people like Barbra Streisand help candidates or hurt them by making them look frivolous and stupid. And how do they illustrate this frivolity and stupidity? By changing the words to classic Barbra songs and belting them melodramatically. They even rhyme Yentl with mental. It's like buttah! Clip above. More »
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• Only eight more weeks, people! At least we have hilarious helpers like Sarah Haskins and Samantha Bee to shepherd us through these difficult times.
• I don't know if you'd heard, it's kind of under the radar, but Bristol Palin is pregnant. Some of us think it is a non-issue.
• Others of us want to use it to question Palin's policy on education, abortion, and health care.
• But you know, asking Palin questions about these things is just SEXIST, you pinko media elites!

Our very own media elite, Megan, braved the RNC so we didn't have to. More »
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Samantha Bee is the only female correspondent on The Daily Show, and last night, her talents were showcased in a special segment, where she was applauded for bringing "the news to full term with the only in utero election center in the business." She also mentions that she's not planning on working at The Daily Show forever, and is just waiting for 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl to die so she can swoop in and take her place. Although Bee is super pregnant in the clip, she actually gave birth on June 20th to her second baby — a boy named Fletcher — with her husband and fellow Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones. Clip above. More »
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Gaiety! Bacchanalia! Food shortages! The White House Correspondents Dinner happened over the weekend. "One of the most hideous events I've ever been to," decreed Ruper Everett (of the cinematic gem The Next-Best Thing. Megan went. So did Heidi and Spencer and Pete Wentz. Megan recognized Donatella Versace, but not Ashlee Simpson. Lauren Conrad grew "awesome bangs." Glamocracy reigned, so to speak, and not just in Washington; I went to a lovely wedding! Prince performed at Coachella! And the rest of the world continued to fast and fester under the weight of wrongheaded economic policies that systematically placed risk of reckless neocons and Wall Street plutocrats on the shoulders of taxpayers, undermining capitalism's every last virtue and then some. That and Jeremiah Wright speaks, Bill Clinton's Obama hate is deconstructed, a brief discussion of the Laffer Curve, after the jump. More »
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When Samantha Bee stood up at the Daily Show podium and faux admitted to cheating on her husband in a Spitzer-esque press conference, I wondered if there were any female politicians who had been caught red-handed (red-pantied?) in an extramarital affair. In the current issue of Newsweek, Julia Baird ponders the same question — "Why aren't more powerful public women caught up in sex scandals?" — and comes up with a few possibilities. While Baird makes note of a few female pols who have behaved badly (former Charlotte, NC mayor Sue Myrick, Idaho congresswoman Helen Chenoweth, Utah congresswoman Katherine Bryson), one of the possible reasons fewer women have been caught cheating is because there are fewer female politicians, period. More »
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On the Daily Show last night ,correspondent Samantha Bee decided to come clean about her involvement with a prostitution ring. Bee discussed the first rule of political press conference admissions: bring a date. She trotted out her husband, fellow Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones, to accompany her while she exposed her own transgressions. Watching this clip along with this NPR gallery of disgraced politicians and their wives makes us wonder: has a female official ever stood in front of her constituents, flanked by her main man, and admitted to wrongdoing? More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=366912&view=rss&microfeed=true The Daily Show's singularly brilliant Samantha Bee got all Sex And The City last night and set out to discover whether America is ready for a woman in the White House, interviewing The Pick-Up Artist's Mystery, conservative Washington Examiner columnist La Shawn Barber, and Kim Gandy, the head of the National Organization for Women. The answer? According to certain other "Samantha", the answer is a slam-dunk "yes". More »
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