Roy Wood Jr. has weighed in on the way forward for The Daily Show following the information that it will quickly be dropping its host. Recently, Trevor Noah introduced that he was stepping away from his internet hosting duties after a seven-year run. The South African comic joined the present in 2015 when longtime host Jon Stewart made his personal exit after a 16-year run.
“I spotted that after that seven years, my time is up. But in essentially the most lovely manner. Honestly,” Noah instructed viewers when he introduced his Daily Show exit, having since lined up a brand new comedy particular at Netflix. “I’ve cherished internet hosting the present. It’s been one in all my biggest challenges. It’s been one in all my biggest joys. I’ve cherished attempting to determine how one can make individuals snicker, even when the tales are significantly shitty on the worst days. You know, we have laughed collectively, we have cried collectively. But after seven years, I really feel prefer it’s time.”
Noah leaves The Daily Show in December earlier than taking a hiatus. The sequence will then return in 2023 with a brand new host that’s but to be named. There has been a whole lot of hypothesis over who could possibly be succeeding Noah, and as a present correspondent, Wood’s identify is one which has come up rather a lot. Speaking in regards to the state of affairs on The Daily Beast’s The Last Laugh podcast (per THR), Wood addressed if he’d be up for taking the job himself if he have been requested.
“You can’t say no to an opportunity like that. You can’t turn your nose up at it, at least. I think you have to sit and assess what you want to do creatively, and that’s something I haven’t thought about yet.”
Who Will Be the New Host of The Daily Show?
An official announcement has not but been made for the brand new host of The Daily Show. If it is not Wood, the correspondent isn’t positive if he’d need to stick round with another person new coming in to succeed Noah. Whether he stays if another person will get the job will depend on that particular person and if he sees himself working effectively with the host.
“It would rely on the host. It would rely on the inventive route of the present. What are you attempting to do? How do I match into that? And does that inventive route match my comedic ability units and provides me a possibility to indicate who I’m?”
Wood additionally identified that Noah’s transition coming in was seen as a bit “tumultuous” on the time, as followers weren’t but aware of the comic. It’s completely different with correspondents who have already got a built-in relationship with the viewers, and with this in thoughts, Comedy Central would possibly need to have a look at who they have readily available earlier than peeking elsewhere. Meanwhile, former correspondent Samantha Bee has been having many followers recommend her identify as effectively after the cancelation of her personal sequence Full Frontal; Bee had initially left The Daily Show to pursue that sequence.
Noah’s closing episode of The Daily Show will air on Dec. 8, 2022.