Amber Ruffin Reveals If She Wants to Host The Daily Show

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Trevor Noah's Daily Show Exit: Roy Wood Jr. REACTS

Amber Ruffin won't be swapping precocious nighttime shows anytime soon. 

The host, who leads Peacock's The Amber Ruffin Show, has confirmed she hasn't been contacted to host The Daily Show since Trevor Noah announced his departure on Sept. 29. 

"I deliberation The Daily Show is an institution," she told E! News exclusively astatine the Ebony Power 100 event. "It's a large show. It's not the amusement I'm doing."

Ruffin added that the amusement has a "deep roster" of existent and erstwhile correspondents who could perchance regenerate Noah, including Roy Wood Jr., Jessica Williams and Ronny Chieng, saying they're "doing good implicit there."

Ahead of Noah's final time connected Dec. 8, the show's correspondents are being looked astatine arsenic imaginable replacements. And the thought isn't retired of near tract for Wood Jr., who told E! News connected Oct. 19 that you "can't accidental no" to a occupation similar that. But, helium reminded anxious fans that the hosting gig is inactive up for grabs, saying, "I don't cognize which mode that's going to play retired successful January."

Either way, Wood Jr. shared that he'll beryllium staying connected committee satirical quality show, which was antecedently hosted by Jon Stewart and Craig Kilborn during its 26-year-long run. 

"The question cipher is asking is, 'If you're not hosting, are you inactive staying?'" helium said. "Hell yeah. It's a large job. I get an accidental to archer stories that we usually wouldn't get to tell. I deliberation the dope happening astir The Daily Show is we person correspondents, and they run arsenic these extensions of the show. A batch of shows don't person that."

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The Daily Show airs weeknights astatine 11 p.m. connected Comedy Central.

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