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Samantha Bee is joining the boys club on Monday — the former "Daily Show" correspondent debuts in her own late-night comedy show.

"Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" is different from the competition. Andy Cohen, Stephen Colbert, James Corden, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Trevor Noah, Conan O'Brien and Larry Wilmore all have one thing in common — they're all men. And that seems to be a requirement for late-night comedy in American TV.

Bee makes it clear that "Full Frontal" is not a women's show, but she realizes that the mere fact that she has a show is significant.

"I don't think it's fair" that the medium is so dominated by men, Bee said. "It makes complete sense to me that it be a part of the conversation. I mean, there just has not been a wealth of women in late night. So, of course, that's going to come up."

"Full Frontal" is not like all those other shows, however. There will be only one new show per week. It's a half-hour long. It's not a talk show. Bee won't sit behind a desk. She won't have guests. She'll stand in front of video screens on a news set.

Bee will do comedy about current events and air pre-taped pieces — pretty much the same sort of thing she did on Jon Stewart's "Daily Show," where she was a correspondent longer than anyone else (2003-15).

" 'Full Frontal' is going to have a pretty heavy field element because that was work that I loved doing so much," Bee said. "I'm really passionate about it, and I thought it would be a really interesting and unique thing to keep going. We are going to broaden the style and try a whole bunch of new things."

Executive producer/head writer Jo Miller said the show will be "more like a weekly news magazine than a nightly news show, but comedy."

"So thick, juicy headlines," Bee added.

They will joyfully court controversy. They're planning a report on the rise of Islamophobia during election cycles. Bee went to a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan where she joined an American cultural orientation class.

And then there's a report on how the Veterans Administration is unprepared to deal with women's health issues that is both very funny and infuriating.

"Full Frontal" debuts Monday at 8:30 p.m. on TBS; it repeats Thursday at 10 p.m., Friday at 10:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 9 p.m. (It's not a late-night debut in the Mountain Time Zone, but it will air later in other parts of the country.)

And, while it will sometimes address women's issues, "It's not a show all about women's stuff," said Miller.

Bee, also an executive producer on the show, said "women's issues are extremely important to me" but they are "not going to be the only thing that we talk about on the show."

"What we want to do is take stories that we don't think receive enough attention and stab them with the hot poker of comedy."

Scott D. Pierce covers television for The Salt Lake Tribune . Email him at spierce@sltrib.com; follow him on Twitter @ScottDPierce.