Episode
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee: May 6, 2020
Overview
Full Frontal argues that the social safety nets helping Americans during this pandemic could have been used all along. Plus, Allana Harkin has a parent/teacher conference with educators and Vanessa Carlton performs from Sam's shed!
Details
- Series
- Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 2020-05-06
- Runtime
- 21 min
Episode context
May 6, 2020 is Episode 11 in Season 5 of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. It aired on 2020-05-06. The runtime is 21 min.
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Episode 8: April 15, 2020
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Episode 14: June 17, 2020
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Episode 7: April 8, 2020
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Episode 15: June 24, 2020
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Episode 6: April 1, 2020
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Episode 16: July 1, 2020
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Episode 5: March 25, 2020
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Episode 17: July 15, 2020
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