6/10/2023 0 Comments Trevor who hosts the daily show![]() When Stewart announced his retirement back in February 2015, Noah was, from the outside, nobody’s top choice for the job. The Daily Show with Trevor Noah was never going to be appointment TV – that age for late-night or political comedy passed before Stewart left – but he turned it into informative, irreverent, at times essential viewing. The show he leaves behind is one of the most dynamic and actually insightful in a genre that has long felt stymied, stale and in a perpetual identity crisis over how to handle Donald Trump. Noah and his writers capitalized on his perspective as an outsider, both as an immigrant to the US and as one of the few late-night hosts of color (and the only one on a show prominent enough to be included in nightly recaps, including at this outlet). Noah has said that his first exposure to The Daily Show was through watching CNN, which broadcast it in foreign countries he assumed Stewart was just an especially loose news anchor.īut over seven years, Noah managed to make The Daily Show his own, one that appealed to younger audiences with short online clips, digital culture-heavy jokes and references rooted in Noah’s experience as a (sometimes) single millennial attached to his phone. The two had vastly different perspectives: Stewart was a 52-year-old Jewish man from New Jersey 31-year-old Noah, the son of a white Swiss father and Black Xhosa mother, had immigrated to the US from South Africa only four years prior. Taking over from Stewart was never going to be easy, especially for a show crafted and streamlined to fit his sensibilities for so long. “And now it feels like the family has a new stepdad, and he’s Black.”) (“And it’s weird, because dad has left,” he added. Or, as Noah put it on his first night as host, a collective “political dad”. Over the course of 16 years, Stewart helmed The Daily Show through its transformation from scrappy, fratty Comedy Central outsider to arguably the defining political comedy series of the 2000s, one that turned its satirical correspondents into stars (Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Samantha Bee and Ed Helms, among others) and its host into a world-weary moral authority. The South African comedian took on a near impossible task in September 2015: succeed Jon Stewart.
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