Comedian Samantha Bee revealed on The Daily Beast Podcast this week that she is preparing for a three-night performance run next week in New York City—and it concerns a very personal topic.
Bee’s show, “How to Survive Menopause,” will focus on the former Daily Show correspondent’s experience undergoing what she calls a “period of metamorphosis.”
Bee says anger was the first sign of the changes she was undergoing. And that’s saying something for the Canadian-born comedian, who says she was not prone to throwing tantrums for most of her life.
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“I’m not really generally a hot takes type of person, and I do like to think about things and consider things, but the anger inside of me would boil. I would rage boil in a nanosecond,” she said. “It was such a powerful feeling... I was throwing things. Privately, my personal anger was overtaking me.”
“I never really did that in anybody’s presence, but it was like a private inner turmoil. And I thought, ‘I really need psychiatric care. This is very out of character,’” she said, adding that once she realized the heightened emotions were symptoms of menopause, she was able to get help and overcome them.
Bee hopes that, by sharing her experiences, she can make women feel less alone should they find themselves in the same situation.
“It’s just good to know that you’re not like wandering around in the forest by yourself,” Bee said. “There are other people like you and you just need to identify who they are.”
“How to Survive Menopause” runs Oct. 17-19 at the Minetta Lane Theatre in Manhattan.
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