Samantha Bee's Full Frontal is about to make its debut, and when it does, she will be the only female late-night talk show host on TV. "Do you get tired of that question?" fellow Daily Show alum Stephen Colbert asked her on Thursday's Late Show. "Why do I, you know, have to bear the weight of being a woman?" Bee played it straight: "Quite honestly, before I started this process, I didn't even know women could talk." Then she turned the conversation in another direction, telling Colbert that on his show he tends to "reference your man parts with pretty astonishing frequency." She brought a clip to prove her point.
Bee wasn't complaining, exactly. She was mostly setting up her own list of euphemisms that she can employ to reference her lady parts. She and Colbert took turns reading the list, and they range from the juvenile ("hoo hoo") to the "classy" ("department of the interior") to the almost poetic ("lady garden"), with an unusual number of Harry Potter references thrown in. For a taste of Bee's upcoming show, and some creative euphemisms, watch below. Peter Weber
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