Samantha Bee is easily outraged, even (or especially) after the election

PASADENA, Calif. — If you thought Samantha Bee was angry — well, she still is.

If anything separated TBS's Full Frontal with Samantha Bee from other news comedy show, well, beyond being funnier and smarter than any of them, it was Bee's righteous anger. Frontal is show with a definite point of view and a near constant sense of outrage.

"Well," Bee told television critics Saturday, "there's plenty to be outraged about. It's a thoughtful experience. The only thing we really wanted from the show is that it come from a very gut place, a very visceral place...For those 21 minutes, it's a very cleansing and cathartic experience for me, which permits me to live my life as I want to live it outside of the show."

Much of that outrage has been directed at our incoming president. (Asked if there was ever a Trump joke pitched to her she thought was too mean to say, she quickly says "No.") But Bee says the show has never been, and never will be, just about the presidential election. There are plenty of other subjects that interest her, including what's going on at the state level.

As for whether any part of her was happy with the result of the election if only because it gave her four years worth of comic fodder, Bee is just as quick to answer: "No."

Bee was often critical of the major TV news outlets during the election, many of which she says abdicated their responsibility. But now, she says, "there's a feeling that they're really coming for all of us, so it does behoove us to support each other."