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Samantha Bee and Jason Jones on Being 'The Daily Show' Power Couple | W magazine
DescriptionSamantha Bee and Jason Jones, the political commentators and comedians who both formerly starred on 'The Daily Show,' are a power couple off-screen. Here, they recount the moment they fell in love (on a camping trip that took an unexpected turn), working out on a stationary bike, speaking Canadian, who would get deportMore
Samantha Bee and Jason Jones, the political commentators and comedians who both formerly starred on 'The Daily Show,' are a power couple off-screen. Here, they recount the moment they fell in love (on a camping trip that took an unexpected turn), working out on a stationary bike, speaking Canadian, who would get deported first, who they want to be, and their favorite things.
From "Samantha Bee Talks Donald Trump and Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner"
"Because Bee keeps a dizzying schedule, and because she is naturally prone to looking forward rather than backward, she had scarcely processed that the episode also marked Full Frontal’s one-year anniversary. Just a few hours earlier, she had found Jason Jones—her husband of 16 years, father of their three children, fellow former Daily Show correspondent, and an executive producer of Full Frontal—in the back row where he observes most rehearsals. Their celebration of the milestone was not exactly jubilant.
Samantha Bee, with her husband and writing partner, Jason Jones, rarely blends into the background.
Bee’s producers, however, were intent on commemorating the occasion. After the taping, with the studio audience members still in their seats, they surprised Bee with two gifts: a portrait of the staff sporting T-shirts reading "Nasty Woman" and, framed in a shadow box, the red power blazer Bee had worn for her debut. Both underscored Bee’s barrier-breaking and star-making rise—not merely as the first woman
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