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In an exclusive interrogation with E! News, Daily Show analogous Roy Wood Jr. discussed the anticipation of taking implicit for big Trevor Noah, who is stepping down successful December.
Trevor Noah's Daily Show Exit: Roy Wood Jr. REACTS
Roy Wood Jr. is keeping his options open.
The comedian, who has been a analogous connected The Daily Show since 2015, has people travel up successful speech astir who should regenerate Trevor Noah, who announced his plans to measurement down arsenic big of the storied precocious nighttime governmental speech amusement connected Sept. 29.
Wood Jr. said "you can't accidental no" to a occupation similar that, successful an exclusive interrogation with E! News astatine the play 5 premiere of Inside Amy Schumer connected Oct. 18, but revealed that everything about the hosting gig is inactive up successful the air, adding, "I don't cognize which mode that's going to play retired successful January."
Noah's last time arsenic big of The Daily Show is Dec. 8. After a break, the amusement volition instrumentality connected Jan. 17, presumably with a new host behind the iconic desk.
Whether oregon not Wood Jr. becomes the 4th big successful the show's history—after Noah, Jon Stewart and Craig Kilborn—the 43-year-old comedian isn't readying connected going anywhere.
"The question cipher is asking is, ‘If you're not hosting, are you inactive staying?' Hell yeah. It's a large job," Wood Jr. said. "I get an accidental to archer stories that we usually wouldn't get to tell. I deliberation the dope happening about The Daily Show is we person correspondents, and they run arsenic these extensions of the show. A batch of shows don't person that."
Though Wood Jr. admitted that helium was amazed by Noah's announcement, helium supports his decision. "At the extremity of the day," helium said, "I'm blessed for anyone that chooses to bash immoderate makes them happy."
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As for immoderate fearfulness that The Daily Show mightiness miss a step successful the lack of Noah, Wood Jr. made definite to squash those concerns.
"The Daily Show is an institution," helium said. "A person of excavation told maine a agelong clip ago, ‘We don't ain these jobs, we lease them.' So it's each temporary. Whether it's Kilborn oregon Jon oregon Trevor, immoderate the adjacent iteration of The Daily Show is gonna beryllium is going to beryllium good and we're going to support whoopin' their ass and pointing retired the bullsh-t. Nothing's going to change."
The Daily Show airs weeknights astatine 11 p.m. connected Comedy Central. The 5th play of Inside Amy Schumer premieres Oct. 20 connected Paramount+.
-Reporting by Charles O'Keefe
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