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appeared as a guest via Zoom and welcomed Fallon back, saying: “New York is really open now that you’re doing your show again.”Fallon is the first of the late-night hosts to return to the studio.

Kate Aurthur editorSince late March, Samantha Bee has been filming TBS’ “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” — her topical comedy show — from the woods outside of her house in upstate New York. Her last taping of the show in its Manhattan studio was on March 11, the week that productions shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Peter White Television EditorSamantha Bee has become the latest late-night host to help save the United States Postal Service.The star of TBS’ Full Frontal with Samantha Bee has organized a social media campaign, #MailedIt, to encourage people to tweet at President Trump and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin to save the mail service.For every tweet, the show will buy a stamp from the USPS up to a total of 100,000.

When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down production, talk shows were forced to adapt to filming from home. Hosts took various approaches to setting their at-home studios: John Oliver chose a monochromatic background, while Samantha Bee has been filming from her backyard.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterSamantha Bee will join Variety’s Kate Aurthur for an exclusive Q&A interview and screening of “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” on June 30 at 5 p.m. PT / 8 p.m.

Samantha Bee is backing the movement to defund police departments.

Patton Oswalt’s wife, Meredith Salenger, wants to let her husband’s fans know what really happened during their fight, which was described during an episode of his Netflix comedy special “I Love Everything”.

The Hollywood takeover of the Internet continues as the likes of Trevor Noah, Samantha Bee and Post Malone snag nominations at the 24th Annual Webby Awards.

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“Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” returned Wednesday night with a new studio — Bee’s woodsy suburban backyard.

With production grinding to a halt in the face of the coronavirus outbreak, the entertainment industry has found itself navigating uncharted territory. To offer a better sense for how, The Hollywood Reporter is launching a regular series that focuses on the ways in which Hollywood's top writers, actors, directors, executives and more are living and working in these challenging times.

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Samantha Bee took aim at the racist reactions to the coronavirus during Wednesday's episode of Full Frontal. The host kicked off the episode by addressing why the audience space was empty.

“Don’t be a racist” is always a good message.

Late night is about to get a lot more quiet as several late-night talk shows have decided to broadcast without a studio audience amid growing concerns over the the coronavirus.

Bring back the laugh track.

TV’s late-night laughs will continue. But they will have to do so without live audiences to make them.

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Samantha Bee and Ivanka Trump publicly complimented each other this week, nearly two years after the comedian’s controversial insult directed at the president’s daughter in 2018.

SXSW is adding some big names to its 2020 lineup.Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee and Jack Dorsey are among the new speakers revealed for the Austin, Texas festival.Others speakers announced include Emerson Collective's Laurene Powell Jobs, musician Diplo, former UN diplomat Gabo Arora, Disney Park's Bob Chapek, Queer Eye's Jonathan Van Ness, #MeToo founder Tarana Burke, writer and researcher Dr. Brené Brown, Amazon's Dr.