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That has been disappointing to a lot of viewers. Soon after Full Frontal debuted in February, Steve Almond wrote in Salon, “it’s become painfully obvious that ‘The Daily Show’ squandered its shot at a political comedy dynasty by betting on the wrong host.”

It should have been Bee, he wrote. Instead, the nod went to Trevor Noah, who has made the show worse than unfunny — with a few exceptional moments, he said, “he’s made it irrelevant.”

Meanwhile, critics love her TBS show — she gets 100 percent approval from them on Rotten Tomatoes. And although comparative ratings are hard to tease out, given that her show appears only once a week, there can be no doubt that Bee has, well, buzz.

This year, Dave Itzkoff of the New York Times quoted her husband, Jason Jones, who criticized Comedy Central for evidently never seriously considering her to succeed Stewart: “The fact that she wasn’t approached is a little shocking, to say the least.”

Bee, who is in her mid-40s, grew up in Toronto, where she helped found a sketch comedy troupe, the Atomic Fireballs. She joined The Daily Show in 2003. When she and Jones co-hosted The Daily Show in Stewart’s absence in 2014, the couple said they had recently become American citizens.

In the past few days, Bee made news when she pushed back against a TBS tweet that mocked Hillary Clinton’s laugh and used the hashtag #ImWithHyena. Bee retweeted it with the biting Twitter putdown: “Delete your account.” The network didn’t go quite that far, but it did delete the offending tweet.

After initially dissing Clinton’s choice of Timothy Kaine as a running mate, she took another look. And then another, appreciating his call to do good for others, as his Jesuit high school had instructed. Soon, she was calling him “a walking hug” and “a Ferrari minivan with airbags.”

Smitten, she invited the veep hopeful to “Take my panties, Tim Kaine. I mean my vote. No, I mean my panties.”

As for the two conventions, she described them as “so tonally different.”

“They are worlds apart — for one thing, there are people of colour here.” But as a comedic resource, the Republican convention offered riches at every turn. Not so much in Philadelphia, where she said that she and her team have been feeling inspired and moved at the speeches, but not finding too much fodder for comedy.