As you probably already know from my previous posts, I am a big fan of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Lats night, while watching a recorded episode of Wednesday night’s show, I saw a segment about the recent Israeli Knesset (the Israeli equivalent of Congress) elections. Jon Stewart’s monologue at the beginning was great, but then comes a big surprise. When he introduces his "Senior Israeli Bureau Chief," instead of being Rob Corddry or Ed Helms, it’s Samantha Bee! Samantha Bee, who is the only female correspondent on The Daily Show, spent the past two to three months on maternity leave with her newborn baby. I always liked Bee’s segments and thought she, like the other Daily Show correspondents, had great wit and a sense of humor. Bee did a very good job in her first segment (besides an audio-only one of her about a month ago) with some good lines, like when she is describing which parties got seats in the Knesset ("Lefkowitz, party of four"). Jason Jones, her husband and also a Daily Show "correspondent" did some humorous coverage of Hamas’ reaction to the Israeli elections ("Hamas would not be very happy with the Israeli elections if Israel were a country, which it’s not"). Overall, this was a very nice way to usher back in one of the wittiest people on The Daily Show.
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I don’t think I was ever happier to see Sam back in front of the camera