--- --- Apr 20, 2017 # Samantha Bee by Jane Curtin  Photograph by Javier Sirvent for TIME Oh, how I love Samantha Bee! She is a tiny package of fire and kittens. She purrs and she burns. She can run with the boys and doesn’t have to wear an industrial-­strength bra. And as the host of TBS’s _Full Frontal With Samantha Bee_, she has given voice to all the women who have wanted to take on the political establishment—women like me. But unlike me, she has the courage and the ability to plant those little feet, lean just slightly into the camera and fire off a staggering spray of machine-gun bullet points laced with delicious asides for color. She is as smart as a whip and, as far as I’m concerned, always on the side of right and funny. Did I say she was smart? Because she really is. I recently saw her on an old episode of _Law & Order_. And damn if she wasn’t good in that too! _Curtin, an Emmy-winning actor, was the first woman to anchor “Weekend Update” on_ Saturday Night Live Samantha Bee by Jane Curtin: TIME 100 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2017-time-100/4742710/samantha-bee/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2017-time-100/4742710/samantha-bee/"},"headline":"Samantha Bee","datePublished":"2017-04-20T04:12:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-06-30T08:16:22.584Z","description":"Samantha Bee is on the TIME 100 2017 list. Jane Curtin wrote about the television host.","url":"https://time.com/collections/2017-time-100/4742710/samantha-bee/","keywords":["time 100 pioneers"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8e42031169df458/6988c3352dce01e67b9ed11f/time-100-2017-samantha-bee.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8e42031169df458/6988c3352dce01e67b9ed11f/time-100-2017-samantha-bee.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/2017-time-100/4742710/samantha-bee/","name":"Samantha Bee"}}]}] ```