Time for a bit of news about our favorite real couple in fake news! Daily Show correspondents Jason Jones and Samantha Bee have signed on to co-write and co-star in a CBS comedy. Jones will star as a celebrity chef and Bee will play one of the two ladies that run his most likely Rachael Ray-esque empire. Some semblance of hilarity will ensue, hopefully.

Doing a sitcom be a departure from what TDS fans are used to seeing from these two. I can only vaguely remember Bee's one or two, super-brief sitcom guest spots and and the only non-TDS thing I remember Jones doing was that weird crafting battle show on Style. No, I did not dream that; there was definitely a show called Craft Corner Deathmatch. It was extreme as it sounds, with a lot of intense hot glue and bric-a-brac.

Also, this probably means that the two of them will be taking off TDS permanently to commit to this show. Jones joined Jon Stewart's gang in 2005, but Bee has been on the show since 2003 and is the only correspondent left from those golden years. Steve Carell departed the correspondent seat for The Office, and Rob Corddry attempted this a few years ago to work on FOX's The Winner, which did not garner quite the same results. Insert lame joke about the titular irony. Insert lamer joke about "titular."

Hopefully, Bee and Jones will have better luck, turning their married couple chemistry to full blast, as they once demonstrated during this piece on the Eliot Spitzer scandal:

[via Mediabsitro]