Trevor Noah has met with each Daily Show correspondent to warn them about hosting the show
“I wish someone had told me what a grind it was,” says outgoing Daily Show host Trevor Noah in a new profile
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Trevor Noah’s time at The Daily Show is quickly coming to an end, and names for his replacement are already being thrown in the ring. Correspondent Roy Wood Jr. is a frontrunner for the title, but some reports have suggested that more than one person could end up behind the desk. Comedy Central boss Chris McCarthy “suggests his phone has been ringing off the hook with interested parties” in a new profile for The Hollywood Reporter. Noah apparently doesn’t have a say in the decision, but he’s been making sure that his team knows what they’re getting into if they do get tapped to host.
The comedian told THR that he’s sat down individually with all the correspondents (“most of whom he handpicked, all of whom he’s close to”) to give them the 411 on what the hosting gig is really like. “I wish someone had told me what a grind it was,” he explains to the outlet. “You’re also running the show, so everything from HR to designing the set, you’re a part of, and it doesn’t stop when you leave the building. There’s no moment when breaking news happens where I go, ‘Oh, wow, I don’t care.’ No, I have to care; being informed is part of my job.”
How consuming the role is, on top of his obligations with his book deal, stand-up schedule, and running a production company, are all part of the reason that Noah decided to quit. However, he was apologetic about springing the news on the audience, the Daily Show team, Paramount, and his own representatives at the same time. (“Part of the reason I did it that way is because I didn’t want anybody to be the person who then tells somebody else, who then tells somebody else, who then tells somebody else,” he shares.)
Now he relishes the freedom to do whatever he wants, highlighting opportunities to do voiceover work and write his own screenplays in his conversation with THR. “I’d love to make great movies, and I’d like to act in some of them, but I think stardom is a byproduct of a job well executed, so that’s not something I’m too concerned about,” he says. “If anything, I wouldn’t mind a little less stardom so I can eat a few meals uninterrupted.”
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Explains the lack of passion
Passion fer smashin’!
I wish someone had told me what a grind it wassays the guy, who got rich and famous hosting a comedy show. This guy was a virtually unknown comedian, when Jon Stewart handpicked him for the gig and now he is maybe one or two interviews away from claiming total mental exhaustion.
He must be tired. He looks like he doesn’t have time to run a comb through his hair.
Fuck you you fucking racist creep.
Get him
Thank you.
You seem kind of racist.
Still calling men with long hair girls, Chuck?
What an asshat comment.
It’s a deliberate style
…wut? What the f*ck? What an amazingly ignorant and thoughtless comment. Yes, let’s make fun of the black guy’s hair for being messy. That totally doesn’t have centuries worth of racist connotations or anything. Fucking weirdo…
Dude
He’s Black. That’s Black hair. It’s not the kind of hair one “runs a comb through.”
I got the joke. It’s just not really a funny one, though, when you consider how our hair has been weaponized against us for literally hundreds of years, and how we’re kind of tired of being told our hair is unkempt when that’s just the way it grows out of our heads. And being told it’s unkempt is probably the least of our worries, as we have also been fired from jobs, kept from getting promotions, kicked out of schools, and had our heads forcibly shaved because of it. So. I got the joke.
I took it more that the OP was being a bit of a dick with their comment, so “The Kinja Caffeine Spider” (known for their joke one-liners, often calling out stupidity by using humor) made the obvious joke (that you point out) to highlight how the OP was being a bit of a dick.
Not really funny, as you say, but also something you and others seem to have missed.
Certainly possible! Nevertheless, I appreciated the opportunity to explain the problem because if the joke was as you say it was, I feel like most of the likes it got were actually thinking it was making fun of his hair.
Oh cool, a fucking racist dipshit.
Nice borderline racist comment
Yeah, that’s racist AF. He has a pretty standard and wonderful hairstyle for anyone with his texture of hair, which is to say black. But I’m assuming you knew what you were trying to say without saying it.
He did get saddled with the 2016-2020 years, which lasted about five centuries. I don’t blame him for not wanting to deal with another Trump candidacy where the satire is real and there’s nothing you can say to mock it that won’t eventually come out of a Republican’s mouth.
Seriously. After 2016 I shut off news alerts on my phone and I kept my TV off during Election Day this year. I have friends who work in journalism covering politics and I cannot fathom in any way how they stay sane.
Shoot, to this day I still try to avoid the news as much as I can on the weekends, to try to salvage what’s left of my sanity. I feel ya
On the flip side, he never had to hunt for material.Granted that meant we got nothing but Trump jokes for four years.
Jesus, I hadn’t even thought about that. What a time to try and make fun of stuff for a living, when reality is too fucking absurd to be believed, and the dumbest most unhinged shit you can come up with ends up being the GOP’s talking points in like a week! 😱
Many American comedians mentioned that struggle during the Trump years; a lot of the time they were making jokes about such sad/infuriating/batshit insane stuff that it just started affecting them psychologically.
I think this is partly why Stewart quit as well: it has to be pretty demoralizing while fighting the war against bullshit when real life starts to look like parody and somehow people are still beholden to it.
T&P’s. can’t imagine the trauma associated with . . . telling jokes throughout a republican presidency
Maybe money and fame is worth a “grind” to you. But it isn’t to most people, and maybe Trevor is beginning to think it wasn’t worth it.
Just because it’s a unique kind of job doesn’t mean it isn’t a job. It’s work. It’s long hours. It’s mentally taxing.No, he’s not digging ditches, or fixing cars, or doing… uh, math (full disclosure I don’t understand what most white-collar jobs entail), but that doesn’t mean the job of entertaining millions nightly is easy.
*points to Twitch and TikTok*
Eh, the idea of fame is worth it to a lot of people, let alone money.
I’m not even sure he’s saying it wasn’t worth it. He just wishes he had been more prepared for it, and maybe someone else might think it’s not worth it and he doesn’t want them stuck in the job if so.
thingHe chose a career path that leads to fame and money. if he didn’t want fame, he wouldn’t have chosen to host a national TV show. It’s not like anybody forced him to do this show. And it’s not like South Africa doesn’t have other opportunities to make a living that don’t require “showbiz”.
the worst part of being famous and relatively well off is no doubt the endless army of morons who are waiting to pounce on them saying anything other than “having tons of money is the best thing in the world and I’m physically unable to do anything other than smile and laugh and love every aspect of existence in perpetuity!”small, small people, and I don’t mean physically or in wealth. people who cannot reconcile the idea of being happy and thankful while simultaneously being able to express critical thought or opinion missed out on some critical baking time in the emotional oven of turning into an adult. or maybe they’ve just never seen the outside of whatever stockroom they work in, I dunno
So was Trevor forced to take the job or not?
cool to know you’re not allowed to make the observation that commitments you choose to make can have qualities you did not anticipate maybe you can see into the future, but more likely it’s that this is just the thinking of a person who lives a small life who lacks the facility to see things from perspectives other than their own limited experiences
Not to take away from how hard his job must have been, I do acknowledge it was a challenge and mentally draining.
Most people wouldn’t trade 2 years of a hard grind for 16 million dollars?Wow most people must be stupid, they’re doing the same thing or worse and can barely make ends meet.
He’s wrong. That kind of money sets you up for life wisely spent. He won the lottery, so he should stop bitching.
says the guy, who got rich and famous hosting a comedy show.So what, he’s not allowed to walk away if he’s burned out? Fame and fortune doesn’t always equal happiness. He can still be thankful for the incredible opportunity and be mentally exhausted. Not all shows are built the same, Letterman had so many people running his show he basically just showed up and hid in his office until show time. The fact that he was green at the time probably meant he was naive to the amount of work it would be, especially during the Trump-era news cycle, which exhausted the entire planet.
perfectly allowed to walk away, it’s just the whining and oh I’m so overworked that’s gross and tone deaf to how lucky he is to make the kinda cash he is.
Just because you didn’t know him doesn’t mean he was unknown. The dude was already playing stadiums on sold-out tours before he got hired for The Daily Show.
Stadiums?? Why?
I don’t see how this is some sort of “gotcha.” He can be rich and famous from the gig and also say he didn’t realize going into it how much work it would be, so he wants to stress that to people who are considering taking the job. I’m guessing you went straight to the comments from the headline and subheading, so you skipped over the part where he’s not just reading lines and making funny as a host, he is also heavily involved in the production and has to stay on top of the news all the time, which sounds genuinely exhausting. The ungratefulness you seem to be taking from that quote isn’t really there.
It seems disingenuous to claim that your central responsibility is a grind, after voluntarily loading yourself up with a book, a production company, etc. As far as producing the show, the host would certainly have a leadership role, but much of the day-to-day management should be delegated to producers. He shouldn’t be “running the show”.A lot of his specific complaints sound like self-inflicted wounds. Many of these are easy mistakes to make, but they are his mistakes nonetheless.
He may have been unknown here, but he was already a self-made millionaire before he took the job. A very popular performer.
He’s giving a heads up to people who are jumping into a position that is difficult to have a full understanding of from the outside looking in.
If you were thinking of applying for a position your friend held, you’d want a heads up to what you were jumping into. Why is this any different? And why would you attack him for showing kindness?
Burnout is a real thing.
He’s not saying he regrets it, he just wants the next person to be well informed about the job when making the decision to take it or not.
And don’t foget the year and a half he’s done his job in pijamas from home. Poor guy.
I’d love to see a running tally of how many times you’ve complained about YOUR job…
He was FAR from unknown – he was only unknown in the US. He was quite prolific as a comic across parts of Europe and all of South Africa for quite a few years before the Daily Show offer came in – at which point he was already growing his name in the US as a stand-up comic. The Daily Show merely accelerated his already growing name.
In your mind, what should he do? Blank check. Blue sky.What could he do that would make you NOT judge him?
I fail to see what your fucking point is.
ok and? A fuck ton has happened globally in the years he was hosting
It’s a grind when your not funny.
Even worse when you can’t spell
How does that take away anything from the points he made? Because you seem to be throwing shade at him for saying his job is a grind no matter how much he was paid. So should people not complain if they’re paid well?
So because he was an unknown, he’s not allowed to be tired and eager for new opportunities after doing an incredibly hard job for seven years? Jesus…
You don’t think doing a TV show that airs almost daily, and spending the rest of the time in between flights to do stand-up somewhere is mentally exhausting? He was already famous and successful before he hit the jackpot (which happened because he’d been working that hard for a long time and is that good in his craft; a stand-up comedian so good that the producers of one of the most important talk shows in the world hand-picked him from international obscurity, knowing full well he’d become a global star overnight), and has been very open about the downsides he didn’t immediately envision.People’s minds work differently. Jon Stewart lasted twice as long, sure. But just looking at the toll the show took on Jon Stewart’s mental health should be enough to let everyone know half as much time doing The Daily Show is enough if you want to keep your sanity.
lol. some people are just mad I guess
Boy oh boy does this make you sound like an awfully small person.
Which is quickly confirmed by a glance at that guy’s comment history.
what exactly is your point here? are you just recapping the story for us?
I’m not sure what this means. He’s not allowed to be tired or to have been surprised by how much nonstop work it was because he was “virtually unknown” (which he definitely wasn’t)?
Yes? I mean, he lists what was so exhausting about the show. It’s not worth the money and fame to keep going at that level. It happens.
“Virtually unknown”? He was not popular in the States but he was well known elsewhere, from his bestselling book + audiobook, sold-out comedy tours, appearing on British television as a guest personality, etc. This comment reads as a caricature of American self-importance.
You are gatekeeping someone else’s life, my guy. Not a great look.
and we all know comedy isn’t work, right? It just falls out of you all packaged and funny. And putting together a daily tv show that’s funny? What could be considered work about that?
You’re really grossly underestimating how demanding a gig like that must be. Yes, fame and deep compensation come along with it, but precious few people are up to that task. I can imagine it would be exhausting indeed.
Being famous doesn’t make you less tired.
No reason to run the show 4 days a week. Make it weekly like John Oliver’s.TV consumption is not the same as it was when TDS launched like 25 years ago. Do people really want a daily show?
But… it’s called The Daily Show. Bit of a tell there in the name.
Hire a replacement host with the last name “Daily”, problem solved!
Tyne Daily. What a laugh-fest that would be.
John Daly, which would indeed be a laugh fest. You ever seen anyone else drive a golf ball across a busy interstate with a two-by-four? No you haven’t.
She and her brother could co-host!
The Daley Show, showcasing the legendary wit of former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley.
The father Richard J. Daley (also a former Chicago mayor) would be better. So what if he’s dead? He was infamous for having dead people vote for him, so it would be appropriate.
If dead people are eligible I have to advocate for former Pistons head coach Chuck Daly.
Tim Daily, a guy who sounds like Superman 😉
With correspondents Tony Shalhoub, Crystal Bernard, and Thomas Haden Church(If the image isn’t showing up properly, and you haven’t guessed it by now, it’s Tim Daly)
Why not Andy? He’s quite funny! Not usually topical, though.
I’d watch a Daily Show type program with Andy hosting it in character as Forrest MacNeil, just constantly missing any nuance and focussing on entirely irrelevant details.
Give me
Ooh, great idea.. Carson Daly is still kinda famous. I know he’s occupied, though
Having it once a week would be funny, so that’s justification right there
It appears to work for John Oliver.
put daily in quotes
he got better as he went on but he was never particularly good at this job, even compared to craig kilborn.
It’s incredibly difficult to live up to the standard set by Jon Stewart. Pretty much need a pole-vault with a rocket-assisted takeoff to get over that bar.
He’s personable enough but I really question the quality of his writing staff. So many of his jokes are office watercooler-quality. But I also can’t imagine having to pen a show from scratch every single day.
I think the problem is that he hosts a show about American politics, but he doesn’t see himself as an American. He doesn’t use us/we pronouns on the show. It should have been Sam Bee, but Roy Wood or Jordan Kepler I think could both handle it.
Actually that is one of the BEST things about Trevor Noah, as he has brought a WORLD view to the show making it unique from all the other talks shows in this country
But did anyone ever say there was a ‘problem’? Seven years is a respectable run at any job and Trevor Noah is not even 40 yet. Sure, he never achieved Jon Stewart-like status, but he’s still got his best years ahead of him to try new things now that he has somewhat of a name to get some of those things brought to fruition.
At least Kilborn gave you “A moment of Zen” at the end of each episode. Heck, I refer to my early morning view of the mountains just before I get to the office as my own “moment of Zen”. John Stewart Leibowitz was good at the beginning but the show eventually took its toll on him as well. And for the record, Kimmel peaked with The Man Show. Who didn’t love “girls jumping on trampolines’? or the Fox doing the “Ziggy Zacky” cheer before downing two full pints of beer?
I enjoy his standup comedy a lot, all his specials were excellent. But as host on daily show he was “meh” to me and I lost interest after the first year. I watch and will watch any and all of his standup though.
As a South African I loved him. I do find Americans struggle with our humour though…I don’t mean that as a put down. I humour is just different and tends to be more british leaning, but darker.
I feel like John Oliver kind of secured the ‘follow up Jon Stewart’s TDS’ title before Trevor Noah really even got his feet wet. That’s even especially true the last couple of years since Jon has his own show again. I feel like the shift to in-depth topic weekly shows is where the target demo for TDS has drifted.
Yeah, kinda sad that Stewart is now doing a not as good version of Oliver’s show.
I can handle about one of those shows a week. It’s just too much spirit crushing social malaise to handle. And I prefer Oliver. Maybe with him going on break for a couple of months I’ll get caught up on Stewart’s, show, but TBH I haven’t totally gotten over the incredibly childish and unprofessional treatment of Andrew Sullivan, even though he’s a certifiable ass. It was such a turn off to see him become an IRL Twitter troll.
Honestly, it’s the celebrity interviews. If it’s a journalist or writer or historian, we’ll watch. But if it’s a celebrity promoting a movie or album, nine times out of ten we switch it off. Often we just don’t even bother.
The target demo for TDS when it started way back in 1996 with Kilborn was the typical Comedy Central audience: mainly 20-something Gen Xers (my generation), who were in our 30s during the Stewart years. The TDS target demo still skews young with Noah, but the hosts just keep getting older as the audience gets younger, which is one of the reasons I believe Stewart left TDS when he did — he didn’t want to look like Walter Cronkite to millennials. I think TDS is the kind of show that has to constantly change and evolve with the times and with its audience. TDS didn’t even become a political show until 9/11. Before 9/11, even with Stewart at the helm, TDS was just a bunch of lighthearted and eccentric “kicker” stories like the ones you see at the end of your local newscast with a celebrity interview tacked on at the end. 9/11 changed the entire voice and tone of TDS.
I’ve been watching since the early days of Jon Stweart’s tenure and I loved Trevor Noah since day one. I do think he’s only gotten better since, but I couldn’t agree less that he was never particularly good at his job – the show only got better the more creative liberty he got. And he was the first to nail the pandemic format. While everyone else was struggling with monologues without an audience he was reinventing the format within insane limitations and the result was amazing.I must say, less than a year into his tenure I was already more into the show than I’d the been for the past 3-4 years, and I can say without a hint of exaggeration that I liked him better overall than Jon Stewart. Maybe he wasn’t as popular in the USA, but I feel like his global ratings must’ve kept the producers happy. I know in my circle everybody loves him – he’s very popular all over Europe – and it was a shock to see him announce he was leaving.
definitely agree that there’s a distinct difference between pre-pandemic noah and post, to the degree that i’m sure that’s what’s led to him leaving the gig.but for the first few years i never felt like he had any insight beyond ‘that’s weird’. you could almost set your watch to him saying ‘weird’ like 7 times a night. also, i don’t think his tenure fostered as much talent as the stewart years, which is almost more important than being good at hosting. not necessarily his fault, because so much of the talent got immediately poached to do their own fake daily shows that all failed, but IMO there isn’t anyone on the cast even as mids as noah was before he took over.
His cast was more limited in numbers, but in a way I liked that more than the revolving door of correspondents in the final few years of Stewart’s tenure. I really like Dulcé Sloan, Roy Wood Jr. and Desi Lydic, and some of “his” former correspondents, like Jordan Klepper or Michelle Wolf, are amongst my favourite ever.I was kinda hoping they’d go with Samantha Bee though, rather than promoting one of the current correspondents. It’s the perfect timing since her show was cancelled a few months ago, which was a bummer because at this point in time her voice is more necessary than ever. She was my favourite for Jon Stewart’s succession.
But Sam Bee did get her own show which was unceremoniously dropped when the new CEO of Warner Discovery, who is a vile bigot and misogynist took over.
Craig Kilborn was hilarious, but the show really became The Daily Show under Jon Stewart’s watch. It was never able to regain those heights with Trevor Noah, he just doesn’t have the charisma of Stewart or Kilborn.
He reminded me too much of Craig Kilborn and I stopped watching after a few weeks. Hopefully his replacement will be less grating.I still wish things had worked out better for Larry Wilmore. He was the one I really wanted to see hosting the Daily Show, but instead they tried the Nightly Show, which was such a structural mess it never stood a chance. (Example: Let’s a have a round table discussion with five people even though the whole round table segment is only four minutes long!)
He’s awesome at his job. He did kind of suck at the beginning though–in terms of interviews.
But did he tell them about the tontine and the legend of Kilborn’s gold?
Wasn’t a big fan of his TDS tenure for a lot of reasons, but whenever his name comes up I always take the opportunity to recommend his book. It’s just outstanding on every level. Especially the audio version, which if nothing else, helps with the various accents and pronunciations. It’s funny and quite moving in spots. The stories are very entertainingly told, and the insights are valuable and don’t just apply to issues of race but also for dealing with people who are different than you for whatever reason.
100% agree on the book. I just finished the audio last week and really enjoyed it. I can’t believe what his life was like growing up. I also learned WAY more about apartheid – I had no idea just how bad it was. I knew it was bad…but dear god…
God his book. I read it and I rarely read any celebrity memoir and it’s so beautiful. The story about his mom being shot wrecked me and was so beautiful. It’s to this dad the only celebrity memoir that doesn’t make me roll my eyes and I’ve recommended so much. He had me hooked after that. Not even sure why I picked it up, I had no idea who he was and no concept of the daily show
Yeah, I was tearing up a bit during that last story about his mother.
excited to see Lupita play his mom whenever the film comes out
Roy Wood, Jr. is a legitimate talent with a singular voice and I hope to God he does something else with his time.
I’m hoping he takes over for Corden.
“On the other hand, I drove this show’s ratings into the ground, so you probably wouldn’t do worse than I did.”
I think that’s hardly fair considering he came on the heels of Jon Stewart, who was almost universally agreed on to be the greatest host of the show and someone most millenials turned to for news and info, on top of a Trump presidency and a global pandemic. Not to mention the loss of Colbert in the schedule.
The show has improved steadily and it has found it’s footing with Jordan Klepper and some of the other correspondents, as well as Noah finding his voice, but it’s like comparing whatever the sports equivalent is of something great to whatever the sports equivalent is of a little league team.
He… didn’t? TDS ratings are pretty stellar, and I’d argue he gave the show a stronger social media presence than Stewart did.
This right here. His ratings are fine and his international reach via youtube and social media is through the roof. He also really helped bring in a younger audience who Stewart would have never reached. I’d put money on Comedy Central not being very happy that he’s leaving.
Or why couldn’t it be that after seven years in the same job Noah has simply decided it’s time to move on? Happens all the time in any other line of work. Dude’s not even 40 yet, so seven years in the same gig is a very respectable run. Longer than Kilborn.
Which is probably another reason why Stewart left when he did. He knew a boomer couldn’t sit behind that desk or hop on IG and relate to millennial audience in the same way another millennial like Noah could. And Noah could already be feeling his age as well.
Jon Stewart was the one who picked Trevor for the gig, so I think you should give Jon at least some of the blame for the ratings drop.
Streaming media is the real culprit, if you want to be honest.
If the ratings were in the ground, Comedy Central would pull it and just put another rerun of The Office or South Park in its place.
In other news, CineCraft is a fucking moron and making up lies.
“I wish someone had told me what a grind it was”Because you never figured that out from all the other talk show hosts, before you, who have talked about what a fucking grind it is?
I can totally get the idea of being exhausted by it but I’m pretty sure he had at least one meeting with Jon Stewart where Jon would have kinda went over this “grind” concept on a “daily” show. Anyway, best of luck to him.
Seeing and doing are two different things. Why is everyone so quick to jump up his ass in these comments? Christ this place got miserable.
Yes, jobs are grinds. They all are. Sucks! Enjoy your hundred million dollar fortune, and best of luck starring in those films you’re writing for yourself. If TDS is any indication, they will be totally … there.
Oh hey there Jason Jones!
Sweet labor valuation whine!
I’m really gonna miss Trevor, he’s so damned funny, and his style of humor is different from a lot of the other late night hosts, and I enjoy his insights. Even my mother—who normally couldn’t give half a shit about this sort of thing—made a point of saying that “it’s too bad” because she “really liked him” when she heard he was leaving TDS. 😢I hope he at least returns to standup at some point, because his stuff is a riot! 😂
The saddest part of all this is how conservatives and the MAGA cultists will rejoice and dance on the grave of his stint. It’s telling how many comments here reflect how much he stung their collective ids.
Did this also include a wee peptalk on the dangers of labelling every single person in Britain a racist because we don’t like our Prime Minister (here’s a clue, Yanks: we don’t like Rish! Sunak because he’s brown, or because he’s a multi-millionaire married to a tax-dodging non-dom – we don’t like him because he’s a Tory. Do catch up and stop assigning American socio-cultural filters to everything about my country. Also – eat a fucking salad at Thanksgiving. Your arteries will thank you)
He did something similar to the people of West Virginia. Never cared for him after that.
Feelings aside about how he compares to Stewart or Kilborn (or Colbert, Oliver, Bee, or Minhaj), I think what likely burned him out the most is the fact that he was still touring full-time as a stand-up while also running a show that broadcasted 4 days a week. Oliver still tours too, but because his show is weekly they only produce 30 episodes a year, as opposed 150~160 episodes the Daily Show typically puts out. That much work is bound to eventually burn you out.
He wishes someone told him what a grind it was, and I wish they hired someone good at hosting The Daily Show after Jon left. No one gets what they want all of the time.
this has to be jordans job to lose right?
I was looking for someone to comment this because that’s what I’d think. His segments probably get the most social media traction and he has proven himself to be able to point out the hypocrisy and the absurd in politics in a way that feels smart and funny.
Initially I didn’t like Noah, I thought he was dry and just not as good as Stuart. It didn’t take a genius to realize that 1) he was new, so of course he was going to have to get into the role.
2) He’s not Stuart and holding his first year up to John’s last years isn’t fair at all.
3) Allowing myself to take him for who he instead of waiting for him to turn into John was an eye opener.
After all that, it was clear that Trevor was actually a really good fit for the role and brought a voice and life Experience that Stuart could have never done and the change up was refreshing.
never liked it
Fucking cry me a river. There are tons of us working just as hard if not harder. Poor rich man, for the amount of cash he’s getting paid he should be working his soul off.
Oh for fuck’s sake he’s not asking for your sympathy. He’s complaining about his job like literally everyone does. By your logic YOU shouldn’t complain bc someone has it worse than you.
Can’t believe how microagressy the comments are here. Let’s be honest, folks rarely recognize actual talent when they can’t get past some single flaw. Larry Wilmore is a comedic and writing god and people didn’t watch his show in numbers to keep it going. Michelle Wolf could do it and people will hate it because of her voice. Roy might get the show and people will find a reason to hate it. It would be interesting if John Oliver goes back but I doubt CC could pay him more to do everyday what he does once a week at HBO.
The people who frequent this pop culture website seem to really hate the people who create their pop culture.