Samantha Bee hopes 7th season of Full Frontal, podcast will bring some lightness to dark times

On a recent snowy afternoon in New York City, Samantha Bee is gleefully making her way to a cat cafe.

It’s a production day for her TBS late-night show Full Frontal, and in this particular episode, she tackles how disinformation can spread through something as seemingly innocuous as the cute cat videos the internet lives for.

In other words, it’s a quintessential episode of the series, which began its seventh season Thursday.

“I’m trying to find more entry points into serious material [that] spark joy within myself, because times do seem so dark,” Bee says over the phone.

“The subject matter of this