Jenna Marotta at The Hollywood Reporter relayed that the second "Ozy Fest" in New York City welcomed guest panelists from RuPaul to Jeb Bush to leftist comedian Samantha Bee. This has nothing to do with Ozzy Osbourne. Instead, Ozy Fest is described by The New York Times as “part music festival, part TED talk, part food fair.” Ozy Fest is an event sponsored by Ozy Media, run by former CNN commentator Carlos Watson. President Donald Trump was apparently there in spirit, as his name came up numerous times.
In response to Jeb Bush touted how children need fathers who stay married to mothers, Bee jumped into a rant for government-mandated family leave and health care. “I also really think that we would signal that we care about the importance of babies were born, that we offered maternity leave and paternity leave," Bee said. "I grew up in Canada, so everything I see in the health care system here is so outlandish and ridiculous to me, it’s mind-blowing.”
She could always go back to Canada and ogle socialist Justin Trudeau instead of this TBS Trump-trashing show. Bee said she was mulling creating she’s mulling over an internship program for women released from prison. She also told the audience that she would never run for political office.
When Katie Couric asked Bee if comedians are widening the political divide, Bee shot back that you can't blame her and her fellow late-night counterparts for a divided country – blame the Fox News Channel instead:
“I generally reject the premise because I feel like Fox News has been on the air for two decades now, and they’ve changed the culture … I just don’t take responsibility for the divide that currently exists in this country. I just don’t take responsibility for it at all. I’m doing a show that comes from a place of pure passion, and a lot of times anger, and sometimes joy, and … I really just don’t give a single s--t what people think about me contributing to the divide. I think what I talk about is important to me, I have this opportunity, I’m gonna take it.”
According to Forbes, Bee also reflected on her career, including time in a personal Hell: “Part of being a performer is that failure becomes a part of your existence. Your day-to-day routine is failure, with the remote possibility of success. It’s hard to consider any of those things a true failure because I think that they forged me in the fires of Hell, as it were.”
