What barrier does Hannah Baxter remove when she acknowledges and comments directly to the audience?
Fourth wall The fourth wall is a performance convention in which an invisible, imagined wall separates actors from the audience. While the audience can see through this "wall", the convention assumes, the actors act as if they cannot. From the 16th century onwards, the rise of illusionism in staging practices, which culminated in the realism and naturalism of the theatre of the 19th century, led to the development of the fourth wall concept.
Samantha Bee Samantha Jamie Bee (born October 25, 1969) is a Canadian-American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actress, media critic, and television host. Bee rose to fame as a correspondent on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart", where she became the longest-serving regular correspondent. In 2015, she departed the show after 12 years to start her own show, "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee".