Samantha Bee Full Frontal and Servicing the Primaries

Samantha Bee is getting ready, and getting the rest of the country ready too. Ready for the 2020 elections and what a perfect way to prepare – with an app! Samantha Bee is educating and engaging the fans and non-fans on the primaries in this digital age when scrolling is our main way of communication. Samantha Bee broke into this year’s New York Comic-Con to talk full frontal politics and introduce her app “Full Frontal’$’ Totally Unrigged Primary.” In this interactive app, users get to pick a primary candidate’s team of their choice, complete fun interactive tasks, and activities that win for real. It is not only a fun way to get people thinking about the elections, but it will literally help a candidate’s campaign. “It’s an interesting endeavor for us to make a game because we’re a television show, I think that we build things because we wanna play them, and because we like them, and wanna learn from them. As opposed to – let’s do this because it will be popular and people will play it. We’re coming at it from a much more organic place which is like, what can we learn from this? How can we advance our own mission? How can we advance our own learning?” Bee stated at our roundtable interview. We were seated just off the NYCC press room and down the hall from cosplay corner where masked fans and caped cosplayers roamed the floor. I myself dressed as Lando Calrissian sat down next to Samantha looking professionally dapper in my own stylish cape. We talked about the app and what…