Welcome.

I am just a girl (who had the longest running late night show ever hosted by a girl) standing in front of the internet, asking, “Do you still want this?”

I hope the answer is yes! 

I’m Samantha Bee. I’m 5’4”, a Scorpio, a mom and a wife, I never sleep past 5 AM, and I do think the planet is probably going through menopause right now. Let’s get her some creams!

I think about how Dick Cheney accidentally shot his friend in the face at least once a day. Do I have any friends who would still go to lunch with me if I shot them in the face? What if I was also a war criminal? 

Melancholia. I think a lot about that movie and the agony of impending doom, women who can just feel what’s heading for them inside their bodies, almost on another frequency. 

Weddings! What a nice wedding they had in that movie. When Jason and I got married, we made jam for all of our guests and foraged leaves to glue on top as wedding favors. Can I be a feminist and still fucking love weddings as much as I do?

I’ve decided to join the newsletter community to let you all in on what’s taking up space in my world, and in my brain. Some of my favorite people (and their writing) these days are here on Substack. I’m excited to invite myself over, and I really hope there will be snacks. 

Subscribe to my newsletter, Plan Bee, to come along for the ride. A free subscription will get you the weekly newsletter, and upgrading to a paid subscription will get you some fancy-fun perks like early announcements for live events, access to Q+A threads, comment functionality, and the ability to watch ill-advised videos I take of myself so early in the morning that no one else is around to tell me it’s a terrible idea. 

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