--- title: TBS Apologizes For Hillary Clinton Hyena Video description: Samantha Bee told the network, 'Delete your account' canonical: https://time.com/4424382/tbs-hillary-clinton-hyena-video/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-26T19:02:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:00.742Z og:title: TBS Apologizes For Hillary Clinton Hyena Video og:description: Samantha Bee told the network, 'Delete your account' og:url: https://time.com/4424382/tbs-hillary-clinton-hyena-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd4538601af3e81e/69889f73bc6cfc7f763ddfa2/hilllary-clinton-tbs-hyena.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton Miami Rally og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: TBS Apologizes For Hillary Clinton Hyena Video twitter:description: Samantha Bee told the network, 'Delete your account' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd4538601af3e81e/69889f73bc6cfc7f763ddfa2/hilllary-clinton-tbs-hyena.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # TBS Apologizes for Hillary Clinton Hyena Video by [Seth Abramovitch / The Hollywood Reporter](https://time.com/author/the-hollywood-reporter/) ## Seth Abramovitch / The Hollywood Reporter Jul 26, 2016 7:02 PM UTC  Democratic Presumptive Nominee for President former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks with her Democratic candidate for Vice President, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) during a campaign rally with voters at the Florida International University Panther Arena in Miami, Florida on July 23, 2016. Democratic Presumptive Nominee for President former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks with her Democratic candidate for Vice President, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) during a campaign rally with voters at the Florida International University Panther Arena in Miami, Florida on July 23, 2016.Johnny Louis—FilmMagic/Getty Images by [Seth Abramovitch / The Hollywood Reporter](https://time.com/author/the-hollywood-reporter/) ## Seth Abramovitch / The Hollywood Reporter Jul 26, 2016 7:02 PM UTC TBS has responded to a controversial video and accompanying tweet [posted to its official Twitter account](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/samantha-bee-tells-tbs-delete-914561) that compared Hillary Clinton to a hyena. The video led one of its stars, Samantha Bee, to respond: “Delete your account.” “This post was obviously a poor attempt at humor and has been taken down,” the network said Tuesday in a statement. “Moving forward we’ll leave political satire to professionals like Samantha Bee.” Bee called her network out on Twitter on Monday night as the Democratic National Convention drew to a close, but deleted the tweet minutes later. The 24-second video, “Hillary Clinton’s Call of the Wild,” featured clips of a laughing Clinton alternating with shots of a pack of wild hyenas making cackling sounds. It was created on July 22 by the Heckler, a [TBS-owned comedy site](https://theheckler.tbs.com/), and reposted to the main TBS account two days later. “Move over Donkey! There’s a new mascot in town. … #ImWithHyena,” the accompanying tweet read. _This_ [_article_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tbs-apologizes-hillary-hyena-video-914626) _originally appeared on_ [_HollywoodReporter.com_](http://HollywoodReporter.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4424382/tbs-hillary-clinton-hyena-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4424382/tbs-hillary-clinton-hyena-video/"},"headline":"TBS Apologizes for Hillary Clinton Hyena Video","datePublished":"2016-07-26T19:02:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:00.742Z","description":"Samantha Bee told the network, 'Delete your account'","url":"https://time.com/4424382/tbs-hillary-clinton-hyena-video/","keywords":["motto","Social Media","2016 Election topic","Television","News"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd4538601af3e81e/69889f73bc6cfc7f763ddfa2/hilllary-clinton-tbs-hyena.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Seth Abramovitch / The Hollywood Reporter"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd4538601af3e81e/69889f73bc6cfc7f763ddfa2/hilllary-clinton-tbs-hyena.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hillary Clinton Miami Rally","caption":"Democratic Presumptive Nominee for President former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks with her Democratic candidate for Vice President, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) during a campaign rally with voters at the Florida International University Pant","creditText":"Johnny Louis—FilmMagic/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4424382/tbs-hillary-clinton-hyena-video/","name":"TBS Apologizes for Hillary Clinton Hyena Video"}}]}] ```