Full Frontal with Samantha Bee is an American late-night talk and news satire television program that aired on TBS from 2016 to 2022.

[5] Bee and her husband, Jason Jones, pitched television shows to networks, and their scripted series, called The Detour, was picked up by TBS in February 2015.

They set up a blind process for hiring writers that hid the gender and experience level of the applicants, resulting in a writing staff that was approximately half female and 30% non-white.

At the time of its debut, Full Frontal was the only late-night talk show airing in the United States which was hosted by a woman.

[13] The event, titled "Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner", was held at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., on April 29, 2017, and aired the same evening at 10:00 p.m. EST on TBS, followed by an encore uncensored broadcast at 11:00 p.m. on Twitter.

[15] A portion of the proceeds from the show's merchandise benefits the Karam Foundation,[16] Distributing Dignity,[17] Planned Parenthood, the committee to Protect Journalists, and Hispanic Federation.

[20] Full Frontal frequently supports other organizations and causes, including: 2017 Women's March,[21][22] Girl Scouts of the USA,[23] New Brunswick Today,[24] miamirights.com,[25][26] Life After Hate,[27] Affordable Care Act (ACA), #MeToo, Time's Up,[28] RAICES,[29] and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

[30] On March 11, 2020, Bee announced on that night's episode of Full Frontal that future tapings would proceed without an in-studio audience due to the threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The site's critical consensus reads, "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee adds a female perspective to late-night TV – and one that's fresh and funny enough to deserve more than just one show a week.

There's so much scathing, insightful, intelligent funny packed into Full Frontal and Bee's ability to land a joke is beyond impressive.

It demands your attention,"[47] and the blog named Bee's "Trump Conspiracy Theory" segment as its #1 clip on its list of "The 10 Most Important Late-Night TV Moments in 2016.

"[48] In March 2017, Wired's cultural critic Virginia Heffernan called Full Frontal "the most mercilessly feminist show (ever) (in history)".

[49] Full Frontal aired a segment on March 8, 2017, filmed at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), in which the narrator, correspondent Michael Rubens said Kyle Coddington, a writer for OUTSET magazine, had "Nazi hair".

[56][57] Accepting a Television Academy Honors award later for Full Frontal’s #MeToo coverage, Bee said, "Every week I strive to show the world as I see it, unfiltered.