‘Full Frontal’s Samantha Bee Back In The Woods After Contracting Covid To Finish Abortion Rights-Themed Summer Closer

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EXCLUSIVE: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee has had to return to its pandemic roots after its host contracted Covid.Bee tested positive for the virus, meaning that the TBS show has had to leave the studio and return to Bee’s backyard woods in upstate New York to finish its final episode before heading off for a summer break.The former Daily Show correspondent told Deadline that she’s feeling fine and only has a mild case but she wanted to plunder through in order to finish an episode centered around abortion rights ahead of the expected Supreme Court ruling.The Court is expected to rule on Dobbs v.

Jackson Women’s Health Organization – a Mississippi case that could ostensibly overturn Roe v. Wade – any day now. Such a ruling would mean that the legal status of abortion would be left for individual states to decide and it could become illegal in about half of the country, particularly in the South and Midwest.“We worked so hard on the show.

We really wanted to meet this moment, because who knows what’s going to come?” she said.As a result of Covid, Bee and her team, which includes showrunner Alison Camillo, were not able to shoot in their new studio in Norwalk, CT, so Bee went back to her house, where she had shot her show through much of the pandemic with the help of her husband Jason Jones.Bee is the latest late-night host to have to pivot as a result of Covid – she joins the likes of Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and James Corden, who have all had to shift their shows after testing positive.Having faced woodchippers and leafblowers over the last couple of years, this time Bee faced another element: rain. “It rained all.