It’s the second day of counting ballots down in the states, and with the election results pending, you might feel extra stress and anxiety with all this uncertainty. Refreshing your feed every 10 seconds and scoffing at news that is 10 hours old is not going to lead to a good night’s sleep (trust us). Maybe you just wish you could retreat off the grid, perhaps to a rustic forest shack, devoid of any human contact or news from the outside world for a few days. Welp, Canada’s own Samantha Bee
tried to do that
for a few months when the global pandemic hit. But juuuust as she was feeling strong enough to abandon the shack and return to her
Full Frontal (Wednesdays at 10:30pET on CTV Comedy) studio, a spanner was thrown in the works by the way of… *gestures at everything*.She’s going back into the forest shack, fam. Can we come too?
With a camper bag, hiking boots, and a harmonica tune to set the mood, Sam ventured into the woods. “On November 2, Samantha Bee, frustrated by the state of American politics in 2020, and also, frankly, scared out of her butt, journeyed into the forest to avoid election day,” the subtitles read. “(She voted early! Get off her back!)” My bad.Finding her trusty shed demolished, she hides under the debris to await the results (at least Trevor Noah had hand sanitizer for
his doomsday hideaway). Emerging November 4
th, she checks her phone just like so many of us did, and awakes to the horror. “Oh no, wuzzat mean?! What do we do? Oh God, why can’t we just dance and do lip-syncs on this show?!!”The
Full Frontal team was clearly prepared for any eventuality when filming their latest episode of the season, because as Sam explained (back in the studio and with shed-grit wiped clean from her face),
they actually anticipated this limbo. If Joe Biden won, they organized a balloon drop from the ceiling. If Donald Trump won, they set up a bucket of, er, blood up a ladder. And in the case of well, all of this, they just have deflated balloons to throw at her. That's the vibe tbh.[video_embed id='2069989']RELATED: Debra Messing, Kerry Washington and more tweet #CountEveryVote amid undecided election [/video_embed]“So I guess deflated balloons it is,” she announced as her staffers whipped the tiny plastic things at her head. “Who is throwing these? Guys have I not been through enough?! At least I’m still capable of feeling something!”Of course this being Samantha, a lady who loves to deep dive into the consequences of an outcome (or lack thereof), she went
all-in on this ongoing election, pointing out how disheartening it is that this wasn’t a definitive victory for one side.“One of the most disappointing parts of this election is that this should have been a landslide victory for Joe Biden,” she explains. “We're suffering through historic unemployment, human rights abuses on the border, white nationalists, domestic terrorism, a worsening pandemic, and couch divots so deep you could lose a kid in. Which I did,” she jokes (we hope).She continues, “We knew it was very likely that we wouldn't have all the results on election night, or even the day after, but in order to protect our democracy, we must keep fighting to make sure every vote is counted. It'll take time. We need to be patient. We need to breathe.”Kinda hard to breathe when you’re in a dilapidated forest shed, but we’ll give it a try. *exhales*Watch
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