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Sep 2024
44m 53s

Actor or Annapolis? (with Carrie Coon)

LEMONADA MEDIA
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Carrie Coon joins Samantha Bee to discuss being a classic midwestern middle child, almost attending a naval academy, how the first decision she ever made in her life was to go to graduate school, why comedians are the darkest people, and how when she was younger she would collect boyfriends and leave the country rather than break up with them (didn’t we all? ... Show More
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