Choice Words with Samantha Bee

Choice Words with Samantha Bee

Lemonada Media

English Comedy Explicit
Episodes 243
Avg. Duration 50m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.3 (1,769)
Since Jul 2020
Latest Episode Apr 2026

Publishing Details

Schedule
Weekly
Format
Episodic
Consistency
90%
Hosting
www.omnycontent.com

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About This Podcast

We make a lot of choices, every single day. Some explode, some implode, most we barely remember. Each week on Choice Words, Samantha Bee sits down with people she admires to examine the biggest choices they’ve made in their lives and the ripple effects those decisions have had. What’s a story a journalist took a chance on that changed history? A vote that a politician never should have cast? A song lyric a musician came up with in the shower that made them instantly famous?

Sam’s made a lot of choices, too. She may have to interview herself about starting this podcast.

 

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Recent Episodes

S3E36 Scarcity or Abundance? (with Jennie Garth)

Apr 16, 2026 51m

Actress Jennie Garth joins Sam to talk about her new book I Choose Me, and how to balance scarcity and abundance mindsets. They talk about the concept of choosing yourself and how Jennie first…

S3E35 Bruce Springsteen or Kid Rock? (with Aasif Mandvi)

Apr 09, 2026 53m

Aasif Mandvi joins Sam for a major Daily Show catch up, and to talk about juggling his return to Broadway in Fallen Angels with his new TV show The Miniature Wife. They bond over the perfection of…

S3E34 Gina or Gheena? (with Gina Gershon)

Apr 02, 2026 51m

Actress and author Gina Gershon joins Sam to talk about her new book AlphaPussy which leads to discussing their shared love of audiobooks, allowing cats to choose their owners, and the wild women who…

Check Out: Hell yeah it's No Kings 3 — here's how to make it massive

Mar 26, 2026 1h

March 28th. 3000+ protests. No Kings 3. Leah breaks down the strategic logic — why Trump fears mass protest, what we can actually accomplish, and what comes next. Ezra shares a dead-simple 'tripling'…

S3 Choices We Made: 1929 or 2026? (with Andrew Ross Sorkin)

Mar 19, 2026 52m

Financial journalist and author of the new book 1929, Andrew Ross Sorkin, joins Sam to talk about the parallels between 1929 and now and, and how while history does repeat itself, there are some…

S3E33 Shamed or Shameless? (with Jennifer Welch)

Mar 12, 2026 57m

Jennifer Welch, host of the podcast “I’ve Had It”  joins Sam to talk about taking a midlife gap year in Manhattan and how the country is led by people with no shame, and you just can’t shame the…

S3E32 Cookbook Author or Restaurant Chef? (with Padma Lakshmi)

Mar 05, 2026 54m

Television host and cookbook author Padma Lakshmi joins Sam to talk about her new show, America’s Culinary Cup and how she’s a triple threat on it serving as creator, executive producer, and host.…

S3E31 Real Wife or TV Wife? (with Sarah Chalke)

Feb 26, 2026 57m

Actress Sarah Chalke joins Sam and they revel in having both been married to Jason Jones—Sam in real life and Sarah on How I Met Your Mother (which people still yell at her in airports for). They…

S3E30 Controlled Burns or Fires of the Future? (with Jacob Soboroff)

Feb 19, 2026 55m

Reporter and author Jacob Soboroff joins Sam to talk about his new book Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster and the debate between the native communities’…

S3E29 TV or Radio? (with Christa Miller)

Feb 12, 2026 47m

Actor Christa Miller joins Sam to talk about the new season of Shrinking and her other role where she serves as music supervisor. Christa talks about how she loves giving new artists their big break…

S3E28 Secular Saint or Church Guitarist? (with George Saunders)

Feb 05, 2026 59m

Author George Saunders joins Sam to talk about his new book Vigil and why people are so obsessed with turning him into a secular saint (and his childhood role of church guitarist). George explains…

S3E27 Bea or Twila? (with Emilia Clarke)

Jan 29, 2026 45m

Actress Emilia Clarke joins Sam to talk about her new show PONIES and how for the first time ever she was given the choice of which main character to be, Bea or Twila. They compare stories of…

S3E26 1929 or 2026? (with Andrew Ross Sorkin)

Jan 22, 2026 52m

Financial journalist and author of the new book 1929, Andrew Ross Sorkin, joins Sam to talk about the parallels between 1929 and now and, and how while history does repeat itself, there are some…

S3E25 Moscow or ‘Merica? (with David Remnick)

Jan 15, 2026 52m

The New Yorker editor David Remnick joins Sam to talk about if The New Yorker is the “slow food movement” of news and how today’s current events remind him of living in Moscow at the end of the…

S3E24 Carrots or Grapes? (with Emily Oster)

Jan 08, 2026 55m

Economist and author Emily Oster joins Sam to ring in the New Year and talk about why so many people try to reset in January and if they believe in New Year’s resolutions. They unpack why some…

Choices We Made: City or Country? (with Leslie Bibb)

Jan 01, 2026 50m

Choices We Made: Actress Leslie Bibb joins Sam while Mercury is fully in retrograde and they quickly agree that their shoulders only fully relax when they’re in the country despite both living in the…

Choices We Made: Magazine Makeup Artist or Cosmetics CEO? (with Bobbi Brown)

Dec 25, 2025 44m

Bobbi Brown, Founder of Jones Road Beauty, joins Sam fresh off the plane from Paris to discuss her new book, Still Bobbi, and to explore her career trajectory from behind-the-scenes makeup artist to…

Choices We Made: Bread Baskets or Bougie Butter? (with Tony Shalhoub)

Dec 18, 2025 49m

Actor Tony Shalhoub joins Sam to discuss living out both their dreams while traveling the world eating bread for his new CNN show Breaking Bread. He talks about how bread is the “OG social media,”…

Choices We Made: Wealthy or Wise? (with Michael Lewis)

Dec 13, 2025 1h 5m

Author Michael Lewis joins Sam to celebrate the 15th anniversary of The Big Short and talk about if we’ve learned any lessons since its publication—like why we so often conflate wealth and wisdom.…

S3E23 Act or Direct? (with Michael Showalter)

Dec 11, 2025 51m

Comedy legend turned director extraordinaire Michael Showalter joins Sam to talk about how he made this career shift and how he now realizes he hates acting. Michael tells Sam that he’d ultimately…

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