'The Daily Show' fave Samantha Bee leaving to host her own TBS series

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We could have predicted this was coming

Just more than a week after The Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones announced he was leaving the program to run a show at TBS, his wife and fellow Daily Show correspondent Samantha Bee has announced that she, too, is exiting the Comedy Central program.

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The twist? Her next stop is hosting her own satirical current events series

But... why? Why not just... ? Couldn't they have... ? Damn

Following Jon Stewart's announcement of his Daily Show departure back in February, Bee was considered a frontrunner for the big chair Read more...

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