Jimmy Kimmel dug up a clip of Full Frontal's Samantha Bee interviewing Kellyanne Conway on The Daily Show in about 2007, and according to Bee — his guest on Thursday's Kimmel Live — that was a surprisingly common occurrence. "Our interactions were quite pleasant and lovely," Bee said, and Conway "was on The Daily Show many, many times in the years that I was there. And it got to a point where ... the producers were, like, 'Uhhh, should we call Kellyanne? She'll say anything that we want her to.' And they were like, 'No, we kind of used her too much, let's not call Kellyanne this time.' Because, you know, even back then we had a sense that she was very thirsty."
"She's still saying anything somebody wants her to, too," Kimmel said. "She does seem to be the smartest member of that group, though." Bee agreed: "I would say so, very canny." Kimmel asked if "talking about Donald Trump all the time is a plus or a minus," and Bee said "an absolute minus, across the board. ... You know, we make sour lemonade out of those lemons, I guess?"
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