Full Frontal with Samantha Bee to cover 2016 GOP convention

By Hector Cruz | Jun 26, 2016

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 18: Comedian Samantha Bee appears on stage appears on stage during Turner Upfront 2016 show at The Theater at Madison Square Garden on May 18, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for Turner) /

Samantha Bee recently headed to Cleveland to film a segment for TBS’ Full Frontal in anticipation of the 2016 Republican convention.

Samantha Bee was spotted filming in downtown Cleveland on Friday for a Full Frontal segment that will cover the city’s preparation for the upcoming Republican convention, which takes place July 18-21. According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the piece will feature “two Cleveland cooks and a maintenance worker separately singing ‘We mostly got this’ while holding signs,” which was captured in a series of photos.

Full Frontal field producer Tyler Hall told the newspaper that the segment will provide some background information on the city, while also covering how they plan to cope with what could be a chaotic situation.

“It’s kind of a get-to-know Cleveland piece as everyone prepares and braces for the protesters,” he explained. “It could become chaos. We’re hoping that it doesn’t. It sounds like they have a good handle on what’s going to happen.”

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The piece will also include footage taken at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Free Stamp sculpture at Willard Park. The bits will be shown the days of the GOP convention, as well as the following week. It’s unclear whether Bee will also head to Philadelphia to cover the Democratic convention, which takes place from July 25-28. Full Frontal cameras recently captured the chaos at the Libertarian convention surrounding the nomination of Gary Johnson.

The Daily Show alum previously stated that she was seeking $100,000 so she could display a sign at the GOP convention as a sponsor, but Hall admitted that nothing ever came of the idea. He went on to compliment Cleveland on how quickly they had cleaned up after the Cavaliers victory parade, expressing surprise at the lack of trash or confetti he had seen since arriving with Bee and the show’s crew on Wednesday.

Bee is far from the only late-night host that will be covering the event. Trevor Noah and The Daily Show are headed to Cleveland to film several shows at a local high school, while Real Time with Bill Maher and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert are airing a series of live episodes to comment on the conventions as they unfold.

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