Trevor Noah announces that he’s leaving The Daily Show With Trevor Noah
"After seven years, my time is up. In the most beautiful way. I’ve loved hosting this show," Noah told his audience tonight.
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Seven years after taking over the satirical Comedy Central news show, Trevor Noah is reportedly preparing to leave The Daily Show. This is per Deadline, which reports that Noah announced the news to the show’s audience at the end of a taping today.
South Africa-born comedian Noah took over The Daily Show in 2015, stepping into the unenviable position of host in the wake of the high-profile departure of long-time lead Jon Stewart. His tenure on the series has seen the rise of a number of new talents, including Roy Wood Jr., Desi Lydic, Ronny Chieng, Michael Kosta, Jaboukie Young-White, and Dulcé Sloan, all of whom joined the show’s cast of contributors during Noah’s time at the helm. That same period saw the show navigate the Trump presidency, the 2020 election, the COVID-19 pandemic (including obligatory tape-from-home measures), and more, with Noah emphasizing early on an increasing focus on millennial viewers and more youth-aimed news sources, as opposed to Stewart’s frequent and specific skewering of Fox News.
In his message to fans today, Noah thanked both his frequent collaborators, and his audience. “I remember when we first started, so many people thought it was a crazy bet, I still think it was a crazy choice, this random African… what a journey’s it’s been. It’s been absolutely amazing, After seven years, my time is up. In the most beautiful way. I’ve loved hosting this show.” Noah said he will continue hosting the series for “the time being”; no timing for the departure has been set as of yet.
Comedy Central issued a statement this evening, thanking Noah for his service on the series: “We are grateful to Trevor for our amazing partnership over the past seven years. With no timetable for his departure, we’re working together on next steps. As we look ahead, we’re excited for the next chapter in the 25+ year history of The Daily Show as it continues to redefine culture through sharp and hilarious social commentary, helping audiences make sense of the world around them.”
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This was still on?
Maybe the next host will be good. Could be like a Star Trek movie thing–odds suck, evens rule.
I like Star Trek 1 and 3 better than 2 and 4.
That’s crazy talk, and you know it.
I can understand liking TMP better than 2 and 4 if you’re going for that late-70s psychedelic sci-fi feel, but 3!? Holy shit is is arguably the absolute worst film in the entire franchise. If I had to choose between Nemesis and The Search for Spock as the only Trek movie to keep, I would probably choose Nemesis. At least it has really cool ship-go-pew-pew.
I like Nemesis too.
Nemesis is a lot of dumb fun. People take it too seriously.
I liked Craig Kilborn
Nice try, Craig.
I preferred him on his own Late Night show on CBS. I liked that he was his own announcer.
He was great as an anchor, delivering pre-prepared segments and reading the news, but was very, very awkward doing interviews or “off-the-cuff” stuff, which Stewart absolute crushed him at.
I wonder how it will survive. I read that its ratings cratered in the year after Stewart, from 1.5 to 2 million viewers, to something like 300K.
Admittedly, I never really watched any of his tenure. But I wish him luck.I wonder what’ll come next for TDS. I don’t know any of the current cast people who could take up the reigns, and late night doesn’t seem to have much of a future.
So you did not watch any of it but then made the bold claim of “I don’t know any of the current cast people who could take up the reigns” AND “late night doesn’t seem to have much of a future.” How could you possibly know either of those things if you never bothered to watch any of it? I’m genuinely puzzled about what kind of logic is at play here.
Also, neither Jon Stewart nor Trevor Noah were cast members on the show prior to hosting. Why would they start that now?
Because picking Trevor Noah showed that they should have gone with one of their cast members. Noah has his fans, but the show just really hasn’t been part of the national conversation the way it was under Stewart. John Oliver’s show has been, even Samantha Bee’s show, tucked away on TBS, had more relevance. Heck, Jordan Klepper’s segments on the show proved to be immensely popular on youtube, and he was a correspondent near the end of Stewart’s tenure. Trevor Noah as host wasn’t a disaster, but neither was it really a win either.
I watched it on and off—-his delivery was never smooth, which is odd because he’s great at standup. I guess reading from a script and focusing on a teleprompter requires a different set of talents.
Daily Show writers have always been a mixed bag with good days and bad.
What a pity! When Trevor took over he was an awkward fit, in oversized shoes, arriving at a difficult time. Better comedians than Trevor failed to skewer Trump on a regular basis, so with Trump dominating the news it was inevitable that the show would flow or grow. Turns out, it grew in a good way, with recent episodes feeling fresh and quick and sharp. I recommend to anyone who hasn’t caught it in a while to tune in again. It’s a good time.
UH OH!
The Daily Show with Trevor? No-a!
I urge them to go with someone who grew up in, and understands, the U.S. culture, history and institutions inherently, rather than needing to be briefed on them by the writers pre-tape. Maybe it can be relevant again, or even a force.
Interesting. I found his outsider’s perspective refreshing, especially considering most other late night show hosts are American.
Also the more Americans are exposed to international news, the better.
His refreshing outsiders perspective included punching down at dead migrant miners before he came here.He came from money, he’s a really sick and hurtful person, watch any of his stand up for 5 minutes and you’ll feel the same.I hope his career craters, and he just settles on hoarding his familial wealth and staying away from culture.
hahahahahahahaha
I watched him perform stand-up live for an hour. He was hilarious.
You think Trevor Noah came from money?
Exactly! He did NOT come from money, that guy must be kidding. A struggling South African black mom and estranged white father (because of the saws against miscegenation) are his roots.
I’ve watched multiple Trevor Noah specials in their entirety and did not find him at all “sick or hurtful” in them.
Who the fuck you talking about, Elon Musk?
They didn’t really DO international news though- felt like it was still just US news but like the US being roasted by somebody who didn’t seem particularly invested in it. Stewart didn’t pull punches but he also obviously cared a lot about the country and believed it could be better
Maybe it’s just me being cynical, but I think he’s accomplished as much as he could with that show and anything more would be redundant.
The only thing missing would’ve been an Emmy, and he’s never going to beat John Oliver on that one.
He might as well move on, it’s easier now with his current popularity.
The world needed the Daily Show during the Trump years to be the lifeline that it was during the Bush years, but it wasn’t. They dropped the ball and hired a guy who was not in any way even remotely up to the job. I’m not sure that anyone except Jon Stewart could do it, but I know for 100% sure that Trevor Noah couldn’t.
Eh, both are valid perspectives. Outsider views are constructive, but having a personal history with a country’s pop culture, political history and the like probably makes for better connection with the audience.Ultimately I just never felt like Noah was especially funny. I gave up after way too many episodes where I sat there stone-faces, wondering when the jokes were coming. Most seemed like limp one-liners about the quality I get at the office water cooler. I don’t see him being especially missed.
Except that we already have a ton of late night hosts that talk about our pop culture, political history and the like. Didn’t hurt to have Trevor around to break the mold and be different than the rest.And Noah is miles funnier and wittier than Fallon, Kimmel, or even Colbert these days. The only real gripe is that he didn’t push the envelope as hard as Stewart did.
Obviously comedy is subjective but I thought Noah was boring as all hell. I don’t need him to push the envelope – the job is to be entertaining. Not many people can consistently do political comedy well, and Noah’s not one of them.
Pushing the envelope is what got Stewart and company like old days Colbert, Bee, Minhaj on the map in the first and above generic dross like Fallon. No, he isn’t as good as the former, but again, he’s much better and relevant than the latter.
Pushing the envelope is great, provided you can deliver. Colbert really doesn’t any more, I’ll confess I haven’t see Bee, and Oliver does it only once a week. I think my point stands that there are VERY few hosts who can actually make an engaging and entertaining show focusing on political humor. We’re seven years on from Stewart and no one has come close.
Stewart never pushed the envelope at all, it was always the most low effort west wing style liberal griping. Please join us on the left cause that liberal shit helps the rise of fascism.
Ultimately I just never felt like Noah was especially funny.This.
Well he is. Sorry you don’t get it.
Totally agree, and you said it better.
I guess it’s all subjective. I liked Trevor Noah’s charisma and comedy delivery. Even when his writers gave him “water cooler” quality lines he at least tried to make the most out of them. And I think he expanded (or at least maintained) The Daily Show’s audience of younger viewers and probably more international viewers. He will certainly be missed by them. He didn’t seem to have any problems connecting with anyone, the opposite as far as I could see.
Never noticed much of that except when he would use it to point out weird American customs. Dude has been American for a while tho.
The only appropriate replacement at this point would be Andrew Callaghan. I stopped watching years before Stewart stopped, so I don’t really know if Noah’s show was materially better, but the basic premise of TDS is just unworkable these days. If they’re not going to kill it, they need to reinvent it.
Obviously, Callahan’s not gonna want to do the hosting job, but I bet he could be a good correspondant.
Do you have this same criticism of John Oliver?
John Oliver isn’t the host of the Daily Show?
Aha! Racist trap SPRUNG! Well done, good and faithful servant.
Generally, yes. But Jon has better writers, is upfront about his pretenses, and is a funnier comic, imo.Obviously, I expected someone would attempt this. Yes, I’d like to see someone like Sam Bee, or Larry Wilmore, or Jessica Williams, but younger and fresher.
He was good. He’s funny. You just don’t follow John Stewart.That’s a can’t win situation
Just look at John Oliver and you’ll see that’s not necessarily true.
I’ll bite. John Oliver consistently misses the complexities of issues that are crucial to understanding them. The whole concept of “news coverage as jokes” is disingenuous at heart. Watch long-form news instead. Do long-form reading. Trying to view news through keyholes (Twitter, Daily Show, social media) does a lot of harm. There’s no shortcut to understanding complex shit, and these programs make people dumber. Let complex things be complex.
I’m not sure, but it seems like you’re talking about something else. I think Oliver is more familiar with America and its history and institutions more than Noah. I think you’re talking about the writing on the show.Is there anything in particular that Oliver’s missed? Does he miss the complexities any more than real news shows on CNN or 60 Minutes?I don’t know if it’s disingenuous. John Stewart said once that the Daily Show was a comedy program on a comedy network that came on after puppets who make crank calls. It’s not like they’re on CNN or anything. They’re better than Fox News.If someone’s only getting their news from the Daily Show, they probably weren’t going to be reading the news from a serious source anyway. It’s better that they pay attention to it in a simplified form so they’re at least somewhat informed.
I struggle with this. It’s more fun to watch comedy news, but we’re also supposed to eat our vegetables. I remember a Jon Stewart interview, where he touched on this for a couple sentences. He acknowledged the show was the #1 source of news for Americans (might have been a certain demographic, but it might have been all Americans). Then he said they shouldn’t be getting their news from The Daily Show. Which prompted the thought: if they know, and they know it’s bad, why don’t they do anything about it? If Jon Stewart was as concerned about the nation as he ostensibly was, why didn’t he seriously drop the act every show and tell people “here’s where to learn more”? Or something of that nature. These shows want to have their cake and eat it. They want to make the jokes, but they want people to take them seriously; that’s the format! They’re terrible information diets. They’ve contributed to the idea that current events can be taken sarcastically, at a comedic distance, without understanding the issue fully.
I’m not sure they’re in a position to do anything about it. Some people will check out the link to learn more, but others won’t. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.I think if the show is on a literal comedy network, then it’s on the audience to watch real news. If that’s not happening, it’s beyond the scope of a half hour TV show to do anything about it. The Daily Show’s popularity was a symptom of real news decaying. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a shame, but the reasons this is happening are much larger. You could say the same of Weekend Update. Should we just not joke about the news then?I don’t think they really want to be taken seriously. If they did, they would do the show on a news network.
Eh, I think the producers know the score. I think they know they’re a source of news, and play on that, and benefit from it. They’re not doing anything to discourage it. You could say the same about tobacco or food, and the respective warning labels that didn’t get there by choice. Anyway, it bugs me because I spent years studying communication, and believe me: we’re very affected by our media. Nobody “gets their news from a variety of sources”, they just don’t.
Better The Daily Show than South Park I guess.
I bet he knows more about “U.S. culture, history and institutions” than most Americans.
OR… just spit-balling here, but they could…. you know, get someone to host who is actually…. funny? I know, I know, crazy talk…
Nobody understands US history “inherently.” It has to be taught, and taught well, which is why the vast majority of Americans don’t understand US history at all.
Heck, I was gonna say, most Americans are ignorant of US history.
Of course I’m talking relatively. The average dumbfu-k US kid has retained more about US history, which they snoozed through and had a textbook ending with Reagan, than someone in their 20’s that grew up *anywhere* else. And Americans are steeped in and “get” American culture, even the parts they disdain – something that you will never fully engage with overseas – even the kids that preferred US tv and echo our pop culture trends.
“The average dumbfu-k US kid has retained more about US history”I just don’t think that’s true. I mean, if you’re talking about obvious shit like Lincoln freed the slaves, maybe, except he didn’t actually free anybody, which is the part they don’t know. They might “inherently” know that George Washington was the first president (though that’s not what “inherently” means). Your average dumbfuck kid couldn’t tell you when the Civil War started, or who killed JFK, or who JFK’s VP was, or what year the Challenger exploded, or what city MLK was assassinated in, what a Freedom Ride was, what manifest destiny was, what Thomas Jefferson did before he became president (or maybe they’ll get this one if they’ve seen Hamilton), or the evolution of the AIDS epidemic….I could go on. So I’m not taking your point at all. I don’t think most people in the US know US history at all. At. All. They might know a few random dates and events, but knowing history isn’t knowing a few random dates and events. It’s understanding how those dates and events fit in the context of history as a whole, and that’s not something people in this country get at all, inherently or otherwise. In fact, I would put Trevor Noah’s knowledge of US history up against your average American’s any day of the week.I won’t argue with you on culture because of course an American will be more familiar with American culture, though I don’t grant that a foreigner’s take on that isn’t valuable as well, since they are able to study it without all the biases you gain when you are steeped in it. An outsider’s perspective should always be welcome.Also Trevor Noah’s not in his 20s, and wasn’t even when he started hosting.
Wow, your xenophobia sure is gross.
Sounds like a dog whistle.
Just say you want a white guy instead of dancing around it.
Pretty gross racism here.
He was ok, nothing special though. I lost interest after 2 years of him hosting – he was never bad, but also not especially good. At least he wasn’t like Fallon, who I find insufferably awful and causes me physical pain to listen to even for a few seconds in clips.
Yes, Fallon is genuinely the worst. (Though the one I’ve never watched is Corden, so I suppose he’s also in the running…)
Corden’s a lot like Fallon but he doesn’t really break or flub — just a cold, calculated celebrity interview & pop culture ‘comedy’ machine. However, during the stretch when COVID made doing all his terrible singing celebrity remotes impossible, he started doing 20-30 minutes of ad-libbed riffing with his band and writing staff each night, and it briefly became the best Late Night show on TV…
I’d put Corden and Kimmel under Falon. Kimmel is so insufferable and douchy.
Fallon gets shit for fake laughing, but Kimmel beats him hands down by doing it with an even more annoying laugh.
Fallon at least seems to actually read up on his guests, and even if he’s faking his enthusiasm, he’s successful in actually making it seem like the guests are having a good time.Kimmel looks dead in the eyes and could barely pay attention to his guests, talks as if they hadn’t rehearsed the convos at all and is just reading from his cue cards, and makes the “talking points” structure of these talk shows so apparent. Basically no people skills.
“Kimmel is so insufferable and douchy”My problem with Jimmy Kimmel is that he often gets clowned by the people he mocks—-like when he lost that game of pickup basketball to fat slob Ted Cruz or when he flubbed the Mr. Pillow interview to the point where I almost felt sorry for….Mr. FREAKING PILLOW.It shouldn’t be hard to deliver an interview exposing how insane Lindell’s entire worldview is, but somehow Kimmel managed to make HIMSELF look like the clown instead of Pillow Boy, who is close to being locked up in a padded cell.That’s just amazing.
The saddest thing about Corden is that he’s a really talented comedic actor* (unlike Fallon, who is mediocre at best), and his talk show is a complete waste of everyone’s time and energy.*Which isn’t to say that he hasn’t been in some garbage, but he’s done some good work too.
Corden was good if he’s able to channel his British Sarcastic Material which appear during Covid (no audience, banter with the crew that riffing on him). But when he has to please the studio audience, he just turn into fat Jimmy Fallon.
dear GOD if they replace Noah with Corden, that would literally be the end of TDS because Corden is pure Hollywood talk show bullshit, he would suck at satire of any kind, but he is the one person who could be an even better kiss-ass than Noah LOL.
I kind of lost interest during the covid lockdowns. The timing was all off when it was just him talking to the camera without an audience. It also didn’t help any that I could no longer watch it on Hulu. Watching clips on Youtube is a lot less likely to become a daily habit than just hitting play on a streaming service.
But…but…Jimmy F has a beard now!
Jordan Klepper seem to be the obvious choice to succeed him, especially with his “troll Trumper tour” being so successful.Michael or Desi I could see.Roy Wood was hilarious every time I saw one of his segments.
Klepper couldn’t get his own show off the ground, but who knows, maybe helming an established show would help him.
To be fair, nobody has been able to get a show off the ground after TDS other than Colbert.The sad thing is, they cancelled Wilmore right as the show was finding its groove and being consistently funny.
You and I might be the only people on the internet who remember The Nightly Show fondly. The Bill Nye segment killed that show’s chances before it even really started to find its groove. It was terrible, but that was partly due to the show not really knowing where it wanted to go with the interview segments at that point. They’ve tried to replicate it with Hell of a Week which is a very similar format and tone, but it’s just not the same. And Charlemagne the God is just irritating.On a side note, the dude who owns the barber shop I go to now reminds me so much of Ricky Velez, it’s hilarious. Even though I fuckin’ hated that dude on the show.
I thought the Nightly Show was great. When it just focuses on the round tables and really got good discussion going, it was a fantastic show. Sometimes the sketches, though, fell flat and it seemed like, as the show progressed, that part got more prevalent, but also worse, while the really good discussions were sidelined.
Yeah, once they slimmed down the interview portion, it got exponentially better. Sadly everyone who wrote the show off never came back afterwards…
Other than Stephen Colbert, John Oliver has had the most success by far.There’s also Samantha Bee, whose show was only recently canceled. It had been quietly airing all these years and lasted a long time (seven seasons).I’m still salty about Larry Willmore’s show. Especially because as the show went on, it started going into more hard-hitting topics (especially as the Trump 2016 election nightmare progressed). I suspect that might have played a part in it’s cancellation.
I found it sort of fascinating that Mo Rocca went in an Animal Planet direction. (He’s fun as a Fox News style idiot on The Good Wife/Good Fight)
Yeah, sorry, I was talking about the time slot on Comedy Central following TDS, like Klepper’s show or The Nightly Show or whatever else they tried to put in that slot.
To be fair, nobody has been able to get a show off the ground after TDS other than Colbert.
John Oliver would like a word.
Sorry, wording should have been “after TDS” as in the following time slot.
you mean the guy who’s won literally ALL the Variety Talk Show Emmys since starting his own show? OK fine, I guess his show was a success LOL
I think John Oliver would like a word (or more likely a 15000 word highly researched comedic dissertation) with you.
Again, my apologies for not being clearer—-I was referring to the half hour time slot following TDS, not “success after leaving TDS”.
I love Larry Wilmore, but I really don’t like the format he used for the show, sort of like Politically Incorrect. It’s just a half hour show, not enough time for so many guests.
he’s a funny guy but his guests were not great for the most part and his show always left me feeling “meh”. the funniest thing I remember him doing was the bit about the gun nuts sponsoring a raffle and going on about how important completely 2nd Amendment freedom was UNTIL a black guy won it and then suddenly his tune changed LOL. it actually led me to learn about the Mulford Act of 1967.
Nobody? Really? There’s not another Daily Show alum with a successful show? Maybe even one that airs on HBO and is better than the current Daily Show?
I can’t go back and edit my post to make it clearer—-what I was talking about was the actual 11:30 ET time slot on CC after TDS which is littered with cancelled series, and is now occupied by an extended TDS (40-45 mins show), with Seinfeld and South Park reruns.
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Agree on the Nightly Show, cancelled just as it hit its stride.
Unfortunately seems to be the case with a lot of shows—they aren’t able to save themselves in time.
Sam Bee’s show ran for 7 years until only being cancelled because TBS is getting out of scripted content altogther. Admitted, it wasn’t a 4-5 times a week show so maybe a different category.EDIT: OK, I see your later clarification of “in that 11:30 time slot”.
I thought his show was always meant to have a limited run? Looking it up now aaand oh wow it had 128 episodes?! Shows how much I been paying attention…
I think his “Colbert 2.0″ schtick was doomed from the outset, but at least it proved what a genius Colbert is for being able to do that SO well for so many years. I’d give Klepper a crack at hosting just being himself.
His resume isn’t any worse than Noah’s was when he took over. Even after all this time Noah never felt like he was comfortable in the seat, so maybe Kleppers’ arrogance (real or put-on) would help in that regard.
I only recently started watching regularly after not following it for a few years, and the recurring traffic segments with Roy Wood were always fucking hysterical. I don’t know if he can run a whole show but he’s funny as hell.
Roy Wood is blowing up, he might not want the job!
That’s what I thought too
Idk maybe these types of shows don’t need to exist anymore?
I think now we need it more than ever, with the ever encroaching and expanding Murdoch media empire.
Trevor Noah announces that he’s leaving The Daily Show With Trevor NoahEven after he leaves, they should still call it ‘The Daily Show with Trevor Noah’
Has any show ever tried that? I would have definitely watched “The Tonight Show with With Steve Allen With Jack Paar Starring Johnny Carson.”
Let’s have “The Tonight Show with Jon Stewart with Trevor Noah with Rollo Tomassi with Hagbard Celine, starring the desiccated corpse of Ayn Rand,” just to confuse everyone.
Rollo Tomassi the fictional (fictional) unknown criminal or Rollo Tomassi the Sheffield based progressive Mathcore band?
Porque no los dos?
*Whole village cheers*
Ruth’s Chris Steak House.
Ebert’s movie review show kept his name on it for years after he left for health issues, but maybe that was different because they were hoping that he might recover enough to return.
The did change the sitcom Valerie to “Valerie’s Family” after Valerie Harper left, before the show became “The Hogan Family.”
I like the sound of “The Daily Show with Craig Kilborn with Jon Steward with Trevor Noah with [insert new host here].” It’d be especially great if Stewart came back.
All subsequent versions (I mean, I guess there’s only been two, but…) should’ve been called The Daily Show Without Craig KilbornThey still could…
I’d be happier if they called it “At Midnight” and instead of political satire it was a dumb game show with Chris Hardwick LOL
As long as they still bring in contestants like Brett Gelman, Milana Vayntrub, and Ron Funches…count me in.
I miss @Midnight. That was a legitimately fun show.
same. I was so surprised and disappointed when I heard about that. Great funny show to end the day.
The Daily Show made Trevor Noah a better interviewer, and dare I say Trevor Noah made The Daily Show funnier. It’s going to be hard to find a comedian to host with as much charisma.
It’s barely recognizable from the Stewart era at this point, and I mean that in a good way. Or, like, a neutral way. I grew up watching TDS during the Bush years and it was absolutely pivotal in my political education, so it will always hold a sacred place in my heart. Noah’s TDS is great too; it’s just a very different thing. Folks may not realize that the show changed dramatically when Stewart took over from Kilborn too. In the early days, it was more or less just a 30 minute version of Weekend Update. There was hardly any political content by comparison.
I think Lizz Winstead and Jon Stewart have both talked about how Kilborn had a somewhat mean style, making fun of people for dumb shit and scoring cheap laughs, and that Stewart deliberate eschewed that when he took over. I remember watching it early on and enjoying it, and being really annoyed when Stewart took over for at least a few months before I started to catch on to the new vibe. My favorite bit in the Kilborn era was his five questions, though looking back that’s not as big a sell as I thought it was. But yeah, the transformation it went through over Stewart’s tenure was pretty incredible, especially in those first four years. I still remember him pleading with his audience on Election Night 2004 to make his job harder.
There’s no question Kilborn leaned hard into his golden boy looks and charisma to make fun of pretty much whoever he felt like. He has more than a little Tosh in him. But again, I think that was by design. Stewart was an entirely different animal and rightly changed course pretty dramatically.
“Folks may not realize that the show changed dramatically when Stewart took over from Kilborn too. In the early days, it was more or less just a 30 minute version of Weekend Update. There was hardly any political content by comparison.”
True, but not instantly – there was a huge marked shift after 9/11, especially after Stewart’s return and moving statement was so widely seen.
Kilborn was even better at reading the funny news headlines/segments than Stewart ever was, but he was an often terrible interviewer.
Agreed. People also forget that culture and communication itself changed drastically between Stewart and Noah’s tenures. I think they were both great for the times they were in.
agree with the charisma (which is why I think he’ll become the awards show host of choice in the future) but the way he kissed his guests’ asses was unbelievably cringey.
Noah is an appealing TV personality, but I always felt like the public discourse lost something when Stewart stepped down. Back during the W era, Stewart would absolutely flay conservative guests, who would keep coming back for the publicity. Early in the Trump administration, Noah repeatedly shared his platform with alt-right fascists, but then nodded and smiled as they did their bit without enough pushback. He was too eager to please, too reluctant to speak truth to power. Stewart’s show is long in the past at this point, but I’d like to see someone with a little more weight as an interviewer do this show next.
I don’t recall Noah having very many conservatives at all on the show, let alone alt-right types. Stewart had people like John McCain on pretty regularly.
The MAGA Barbie girl. Forgetting her name. Thankfully. But he had her on in a misguided attempt at reaching across the aisle. I’m not recalling any others though.
He just had like 3 this past year, and had that useless waste of space Tomi Lahren as well, multiple times.
I do understand the difference, and I commend Noah for the great work he did accomplish.
But John Stewart would’ve told that little piece of crap straight up:
“Why do you think racism is necessary for your party?”
interesting that you chose McCain as a Republican Jon Stewart had on his show, if he were still alive he’d absolutely be leading the charge against Cult 45, and would probably be one of the few voices the media would pay attention to. Instead we got stuck with his hairbrained “look at me, I just said something provocative, aren’t I a caution?” daughter.
I mean it’s not like McCain did a whole lot to oppose Trump while he was alive
He did save ACA.
very true, that whole “renegade” brand of his was utter bullshit, but I appreciated his very public thumbs down (sorry, “fuck you”) to both the GQP and t***p not to kill the ACA. It was a small thing but also big and I appreciated it.
Indeed he did.
Trevor Noah had alt-right personalities like Tomi Lahren on early in his tenure, and I remember him just getting rolled by her in particular. After a while they just stopped booking right-leaning guests. Jon Stewart routinely booked conservative guests, but they were always more tied to the establishment, and he was able to engage with them and make their nonsense look silly. I didn’t feel like Stewart was granting a platform to unacceptable views.
miss me with that bullshit
Nope, bullseye.
Noah is a fascist that’s why he platformed so many. Hia family is rich, he has conservative views under a liberal veneer.Hows that saying go? Scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds?
That’s beyond absurd. Clearly, you never actually watched the show.
So his mother, a black woman who was an adult under apartheid, was rich prior to her son’s success?
“James Rock” obviously just signed up to avoid saying “he’s black”.
Posting fake Trevor Noah tweets from alt-right bot accounts is not a good look to you.You should stick to posting random gifs and denying climate change.
Those Tweets are 100% legit and there are many more.
stick to posting random gifs and denying climate change.
WTF? You’re a fucking moron.
https://www.reuters.com/article/television-dailyshow-trevornoah/comedian-trevor-noah-comes-under-fire-for-past-twitter-comments-idUKL2N0WX1CJ20150331
https://time.com/3764913/trevor-noah-twitter-backlash/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/trevor-noah-criticized-as-anti-785447/
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/mar/31/trevor-noah-backlash-highlights-jokes-jews-women
https://deadline.com/2015/03/trevor-noah-controversy-twitter-comedy-central-1201402001/
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2015/04/01/critics-rail-against-trevor-noah-for-racist-sexist-tweets
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jaimieetkin/some-old-tweets-are-getting-trevor-noah-in-trouble-already
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/04/01/396637366/trevor-noah-is-a-quarter-jewish-does-that-make-his-anti-semitic-jokes-okThat’s just page one of Google, genius.
Unresponsive.
Oh my God he’s the devil! Exorcise him!!
Yeah dude you don’t need to reply to me sixteen times to signal to me and everyone else that you have severe mental problems and should log off to seek help over your Trevor Noah hate obsession.
Never seen the new Daily Show as I don’t have cable. I don’t find anti-Semitism funny but I am aware that there are some that do.
https://www.reuters.com/article/television-dailyshow-trevornoah/comedian-trevor-noah-comes-under-fire-for-past-twitter-comments-idUKL2N0WX1CJ20150331
https://time.com/3764913/trevor-noah-twitter-backlash/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/trevor-noah-criticized-as-anti-785447/
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/mar/31/trevor-noah-backlash-highlights-jokes-jews-women
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2015/04/01/critics-rail-against-trevor-noah-for-racist-sexist-tweets
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2015/04/01/critics-rail-against-trevor-noah-for-racist-sexist-tweets
You’re an angry little fella aren’t ya?
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jaimieetkin/some-old-tweets-are-getting-trevor-noah-in-trouble-already
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/04/01/396637366/trevor-noah-is-a-quarter-jewish-does-that-make-his-anti-semitic-jokes-ok
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/trevor-noah-criticized-as-anti-785447/
Never seen the new Daily Show as I don’t have cable. I don’t find anti-Semitism funny but I am aware that there are some that do.
“Hows that saying go? Scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds?”Wha? That would seemingly say that everybody on the planet is actually right wing.
A better way to express this is “A conservative is a liberal who got mugged. A liberal is a conservative who got arrested”, expressing that people assign importance to order and civil rights largely based on the problems they personally experience.
I feel like I need to get onto a mountain with a megaphone and shout out “THERE ARE POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES LEFT OF LIBERALISM.”
If your beliefs are so changeable, then you probably didn’t hold them that strongly.
You… are aware that there are political ideologies left of liberalism, right?Right???
That’s just how right-wingers think they make friends.Hasn’t worked so far, of course.
Have your meds run out?
Sounds like a pretty stupid saying to me. Luckily it’s not one I ever hear.
The fuck you on about? Bitch, you ever hear of apartheid?
I think he spoke plenty to power, but I think power didn’t want to appear on his show. He had good insights when he wasn’t doing jokes. Hell, he was an illegal child born during apartheid. Not everybody has that kind of experience.Meanwhile Jon Stewart’s new franchise does have him doing tough interviews, but only in the sense that he’ll ask some good questions and just let whoever he’s talking to say whatever the fuck. Like a recent one with a SDNY attorney. Jon: So why did Cohen go to jail for doing Trump’s dirty work but Trump is still free?Attorney: The people of the Southern District work hard. The people of the Southern District work hard. The people of the Southern District work hard.Jon: I accept this as an answer and will move on to something else.Not the best work.
He’s leaving at the right time. Mediocre late night shows get the sheen of transgressiveness when criticizing the ruling party, even if ineffectually and superficially, and reinforcing their viewers views.Not only do they look worse when playing defense, much of their previous viewership just doesn’t need them anymore. This is a contraction period for late night shows.
It used to be that although most of the late night shows leaned left, they still appealed to the majority of the country. Like Carson (who was a liberal) didn’t let his political leanings become the entire focus of the show. Or later, even Letterman or even Leno.Jimmys F and K and Colbert are all very obviously liberal, Gutfeld is obviously very conservative. There’s no middle ground of late night anymore.I guess Conan, while liberal, was the last attempt to be a middle ground show.
Is the problem that late night hosts are “more left” or that the political right is a fucking shitshow?
Lots of people root for that shitshow, though.
The thing is, Jimmy’s F and K and Colbert ARE middle of the road. They’re not exactly out here storming the barricades.This false idea that the most milquetoast of middle of the road commentators are “liberal” is the problem, to be honest.
I disagree, especially on Colbert, who has basically built his entire Late Show career centered around Trump.Now, I realize that Trump himself and his loudmouth minions are to blame for not going away in defeat, but its hard to watch an episode of TLS and not say its heavily left biased.
Not at all. Liberals are milquetoast and middle of the road.
this
That depends on whether your late night show presents itself as political commentary, or simple entertainment. A show like TDS is clearly in the former camp. Its audience is largely liberal, so it dwindles either because they don’t need their daily fix of Trump bashing or the show starts laying more heavily into questionable shit Democrats in power are doing and the audience is alienated.This is why for all the shit Fallon and his ilk take, they largely stay away from political comedy.
The taping-from-home era really helped the show step out of Stewart’s shadow. But I can understand when he’d want to leave while things were still good. Good luck to him.
Shame. Trevor was probably a poor choice of host going into the Trump presidency, but lately, his even-keeled approach has been made him, at times, even more interesting to watch than Colbert. It’s just a constant culture war these days and Trevor’s one of the few hosts that don’t make you feel like you’re just screaming into the usual echo chamber.
How will they find another Trevor Noah to fill the role though??
Now is the time for Paul F Tompkins and the panel from No, You Shut Up! to shine.
Last month I watched my first ever episode of TDS with Trevor Noah, and I have to tell you… it was terrible. The ‘comedy’ was cheap, juvenile, intellectually vacuous, and it punched down. I’m absolutely, 100% glad I never invested a minute into it.
I usually judge a talk show host by how good they are off-script. Noah was excellent off-script, i.e. when answering audience questions off the cuff. He always seemed incredibly eloquent and intelligent. Check out his response after the scandal of Liam Neeson saying that he wanted to hunt down a black man after a friend of his had been raped. Noah’s comments were measured and very thought-provoking.
Yeah, on the Neeson thing Noah actually seemed to be listening to what he was saying rather than going straight to the ugliest possible conclusion.
Not to mention his response to the George Floyd murder. That was incredibly moving.
Dang – I’ve really enjoyed watching Trevor. I also enjoyed Jon back in the day, but seeing a Black man bring his perspective from Africa during the Trump years was a gift. Watching him ease his style during the pandemic and keep his natural hair was also great to see on TV.A shame that the top comment here is racist/xenophobic.
Samantha Bee would be a fine choice.
I say Michelle Wolf, but they tell her to turn it down about 20 percent or so
I preferred Between the Scenes than his Daily Show. BTS revealed Noah as a very considerate, candid interviewer and speaker with the skill to kindly and precisely dismantle an argument. I remembe him talking about reparations or the Liam Neeson racism comments in a way that really layed down a wider perspective on things and I sorta wish the full show went in that direction, because his regular hosting work was mostly impressions, funny accents and canned sarcasm without the bite and indignation which Stewart brought.
Agreed. I stopped watching the show but regularly watched the Between the Scenes videos and found them very well done. He came across so much better when not desperately trying to be liked. And as you said, provided a perspective that wasn’t shown elsewhere.
Knowing Comedy Central, they’ll just replace him with That 70s Show reruns
“That’s My Trump!”
“One of these days, Melania, I’m gonna punch you in the face!”
“…this random African…”Comedy Central’s auditioning process is very forward thinking.
Let it die.
They should get Stuart Wellington to be a writer on the next one, just for completism’s sake.
I never gave him a chance, because his standup special was called “You Laugh But It’s True.” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1671547/
Bring back Craig Kilborn
This actually would be kind of a baller move.
I wasn’t joking.
Neither was I. Just signal that hey TDS is never going to be what it was during Stewart, and Noah et al ran it into the ground, and now we’re turning it back into what it as, a lighthearted take on late night.
this wasn’t a huge surprise to me, he seems much more comfortable as a host of the ESPYs or Oscars where he can probably make the same money doing a fraction of the work. He was an embarrassingly shameless kiss-ass of his guests and I never felt like he had the same venom towards the conservatives that Jon Stewart had (not that I’m advocating for Stewart to come back either, he seems to have lost his mind a little the past few years). I had to stop watching TDS last year because the endless breathless coverage of t***p and the GQP just became too much to stomach right before I fell asleep so maybe a new host and new vision might lure me back (having said that, none of the current correspondents interests me, even Jordan Klepper who excels at trolling t***p supporters).
That’s a shame. He’s a racist anti-Semite and the ratings for the past two years were appalling.
Nothing against Trevor Noah, who seems like a fine person and a good standup comic, but they should have ended the show when Stewart left. It ran its course years even before that. I tried watching it when he started, and have seen clips since, and it was not good.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/mar/31/trevor-noah-backlash-highlights-jokes-jews-women
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/trevor-noah-criticized-as-anti-785447/
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/04/01/396637366/trevor-noah-is-a-quarter-jewish-does-that-make-his-anti-semitic-jokes-ok
Does he wear a wig?
“Roy Wood Jr., Desi Lydic, Ronny Chieng, Michael Kosta, Jaboukie Young-White, and Dulcé Sloan”wow, the next generation. some heavy hitters here.
The main problem with Trevor Noah’s version of The Daily Show is that it never really understood that it was supposed to be self-serious parody of the news.Noah is a good comedian, but he’s supposed to be pretending to be a respectable News Anchor (and thereby satirizing the news) rather than just a comedian telling jokes about current events. And he never quite nailed that even when the jokes landed.
I stopped watching the day he took over. Sam Bee should have gotten the spot, and although she did just fine, I really have never thought that Noah was funny. And that’s odd, because usually I can always find some comedian funny, even if I hate their stuff. But not him. Ugh.
I like(d) Trevor Noah. But I don’t think he was remotely up to the task of filling the shoes of Jon Stewart after he left. But to be fair, I don’t think anyone was in that position to helm the mantle after Stewart’s departure. They tried to replace Joe Montana with Blaine Gabbert, when they really should have gone after a Steve Young.
TDS??? Is that The Daily Show or Trump Derangement Syndrome? I guess the two are not that much different.
really needs to be an american, or canadian in the seat. i stopped watching when he went on the anti-israel rant.
Bring back Craig Kilborn! JK, nobody wants that
After all these years a really think The Daily Show owes the hosting gig to Smapdi.
Trevor’s interviews, when it’s someone he clearly respects, are some of the best interviews on any network or platform.