Although one doesn’t necessarily need a reason to interview Samantha Bee these days–she’s been covered a lot, and deservedly so–but if you’re looking for a reason, she does have her still-largely-secret night of counter-WHCD programming coming up this weekend. And she does divulge a few hints in an interview with Lena Dunham in The Hollywood Reporter. Dunham herself has something new planned in her post-Girls life, and will be taking her and co-founder Jenni Konner’s Lenny Letter newsletter on the road for a six-city tour beginning in May.
According to Bee, her dinner wasn’t intended necessarily as counter-programming, but as a fill-in, in case the WHCD was cancelled:
Our minds wandered to the [White House Correspondents’] Dinner.
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