Samantha Bee on the Sexual Harassment Tsunami and Why She Almost Left Comedy for Advertising

Plus, the Matt Lauer-like button she wishes she had

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In hindsight, Samantha Bee picked a lousy time to be off the air for a few weeks. Since Full Frontal with Samantha Bee’s last new episode, on Nov. 15, several more prominent Hollywood men have lost their jobs due to sexual harassment allegations, including Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose.

So when Bee sat down with Stephen Colbert on Saturday night during the Montclair Film Festival’s annual fundraiser at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, N.J.,

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