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Samantha Bee: Can Comedians Cover Luigi Mangione—and Should They?

A photo illustration of Samantha Bee on The Daily Beast podcast.
Photo illustration by The Daily Beast

Samantha Bee isn’t afraid to tackle difficult subjects. She famously taped a 2016 episode of her late night show Full Frontal just days after the mass shooting at Pulse, an LGBTQ nightclub in Orlando, offering an impassioned monologue—”Love does not win, until we start loving each other enough to fix our f–king problems”—and a nuanced ability to engage with heavy topics without making light of them. The current discourse surrounding Luigi Mangione and his alleged murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is no different.

“I have such complicated feelings going into this because I think it’s a horrible story. Violence is never the answer,” Bee said on this week’s episode of The Daily Beast Podcast during a conversation about Thompson’s death and its impact.

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