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" Samantha Bee is wasting no time in her ascent to TV talk-show stardom. The Daily Show alum who will soon host her own weekly late-night show on TBS talked to Esquire yesterday after Turner&amp;#039;s 2015 Upfront Presentation about her dream list of office demands. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t have a rider but I should get one, right?&amp;quot; she said, declining various skewered hors d&amp;#039;oeuvres at Tao in downtown Manhattan. Bee&amp;#039;s had a long time to brainstorm requests for when she&amp;#039;s in charge (just two weeks ago she completed her 12-year tenure as a correspondent on The Daily Show).  To start, she&amp;#039;d revive a former Colbert Report set piece. &amp;quot;Obviously a fireplace is essential,&amp;quot; she says. Although she has no food stipulations \u00E0 la Van Halen&amp;#039;s M&amp;amp;amp;M&amp;#039;s or Jack White&amp;#039;s very particular guacamole, Bee does have a recipe for bliss in mind. &amp;quot;Onset reflexology. Wouldn&amp;#039;t that be nice?&amp;quot; Also: &amp;quot;Someone has to shave me and put cream on my legs... oh God, everything on my rider is disgusting.&amp;quot;      But more than anything, Bee wants a very special literary sidekick. &amp;quot;I just want Joan Didion to sit there. Can she just be there? She can just sit there. We just have to have chitchat like once in a while. I&amp;#039;m not going to put a lot of pressure on her. She can kind of do what she wants.&amp;quot;  Despite all the gags, it turns out Bee is pretty choked up about her exit from Jon Stewart&amp;#039;s home at Comedy Central. &amp;quot;I actually begged them to not make me talk because I knew that I would not get through it,&amp;quot; she says of her last episode on The Daily Show. &amp;quot;They were like, &amp;#039;We&amp;#039;ve got to do something. We&amp;#039;ve got to do a bit together,&amp;#039; and I was like, &amp;#039;You don&amp;#039;t understand.&amp;#039; You know, as much as I was happy to leave\u2014it was just time to leave like for a million reasons\u2014I was like, &amp;#039;Please don&amp;#039;t make me talk. Must not talk.&amp;#039; So all I could do was really clutch Jon. He was kind of emotional too. It was nice.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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