Samantha Bee Does a Fake Interview With Jake Tapper for Her Saturday Special, and a Real One the Next Day

Not The White House Correspondents' Dinner, followed by State of the Union

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If you happened to have watched both yesterday’s Not The White House Correspondents’ Dinner on TBS and this morning’s State of the Union on CNN, you would have experienced what felt like déjà vu but was indeed Jake Tapper interviewing host Samantha Bee twice in two days.

Saturday’s interview was a sketch, in which a check-in with Bee during her show goes farcical as Tapper’s dogged interview style and CNN fact-check chyrons are played up.

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