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## Video: Samantha Bee on Diversity in the Media Industry

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_Published 2016-02-04. Samantha Bee on Diversity in the Media Industry_


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## Transcript

So the VA is the one place you can't find a women's vagina online? Exactly. That's not going to work. I care about women's stories. I mean it's just as natural as breathing air to me. It's not the only thing I care about but it's going to be a be a big part of the show. I think people can handle it. I am Samantha Bee and I am the host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. You know when I take a look at each piece individually, I like it. [ MUSIC ] When I take a step back, I feel like something's missing. It doesn't bother me that people bring up that there just haven't been that many women in late night.

I never really anticipated that I would be in this position. I'm excited about it. I try not to think about it. Too much, because I think that would invade the spirit of what we're trying to do. I think, I'm kinda done with sausages. The lack of diversity is quite widespread in the entertainment industry. I don't think there's any question about that. I mean, the Oscars are Are so lily white [ LAUGH ] this year. The thing about it is it's a really solvable problem, and it's solvable by just hiring diverse people to make projects. [ MUSIC ] We did have a blind submission process for our writing room.

We can't really sit back and wait for the diverse applications to roll in naturally. IT was a very active process of actually specifically reaching out to people whose work that we admired. Or people who were in the business of creating more diverse workplaces. It was lots of extra work. But when we received our submissions they were engendered 50 / 50. It was a really successful playing process. [ MUSIC ] It's not like I spent my whole life expecting to one day have a late night show of my own, but now that I'm here, for as long as I'm here, I would like to do my business differently because I can.

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