Samantha Bee
An exclusive interview with the Daily Show star and mother of two.
by Christina Couch
February 9, 2009
In an age of ongoing wars, environmental woes, and an economy that's in the pooper, one great American institution remains strong — deadpan sarcasm. That's exactly where Samantha Bee —
The Daily Show's silver-tongued femme fatale — thrives. TDS's most veteran mock reporter balances working for one of the most popular and comedically poignant shows on television, raising two-year-old Piper and seven-month-old Fletcher, and
time with her husband, fellow Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones. Babble caught up with Bee on the phone at her one-bedroom condo in New York's Chelsea. —
Christina Couch
Sweet sassy molassy, how are you doing all that you do, especially with four people living in a one bedroom place?
Four people and a cat. Don't forget the cat. I know. It's insane. Jason and I are just lucky that we have an office that we share so we can have sex at work. [Laughs.] We were in a two-bedroom for a while when we just had our daughter, but we didn't
use the second bedroom at all. We all slept in the same room anyway. Jason and I kind of like having our children in the same room with us at night. We like knowing where they are at all times and we're lucky that we like it. We would go crazy if we didn't.
So it's all four, excuse me, five of you, in the same bed every night?
Actually my daughter sleeps in a drawer. Well, it's not a drawer per se. "I breastfeed
my children until they can ask for it by name."It's a pull-out thing that's like a drawer. We were actually looking at our closet earlier this week, thinking, "This would be amazing if we could have a bed in there. What would we
do with our clothes if we converted this into a bedroom?"
But you live in one of the richest cities in the world, your job is to talk to celebrities, sometimes ridiculously lavish celebrities, all day . . .
Yeah, but we don't live a lavish lifestyle and we're happy that way. We're hippies at heart and the truth is, we enjoy each other's company. We're very very lucky we like each other, because we work together A LOT in small spaces. I should add that we do
have a place that we go to in the Catskills and that place actually has two bedrooms.
Is your parenting style also hippie-ish?
A little. The Canadian style of parenting is very laid-back. I'm definitely a little bit laissez-faire about the whole thing. I'm concerned about safety first and then it's kind of a free for all. I'm not very rules-oriented. I'm not very structured. I breastfeed
my children until they can ask for it by name. I don't get too worried about the minutiae and I just go with my instincts. That's working for us so far.
©2009 Christina Couch and Nerve Media
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Christina Couch is a freelance writer based in Richmond, VA, and Chicago, IL. She is the author of Virginia Colleges 101 (Palari Publishing, 2008). Her work can also be found in Playboy.com, Time Out Chicago, Wired magazine, MSN.com and Yahoo! Finance. |
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