CNN is considering hiring a comedian to host one of its prime time shows. The “news entertainment” personality could fill the 9 to 11 p.m. hours with a nontraditional version of the news, five people familiar with the planning said. CNN executives have floated names including Bill Maher, Trevor Noah, Arsenio Hall and Jon Stewart, and have looked at other comedic news-focused talk shows for inspiration.
The comedian gave a tearful goodbye to his fans in his final address at the desk, thanking everyone who has ever watched the Comedy Central show and giving particular praise to Black women for their support.
Paramount is facing the exits of both Trevor Noah and James Corden, just as scrutiny of late-night TV is beginning to match that of its counterparts in primetime. It’s no secret that streaming is eroding live viewership of NCIS and Chicago Fire. Now, it is also eking away at the traditional ways in which people watch their favorite wee-hours programs.
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Sources close to the show note that execs will meet with the outgoing host to set a date for his departure as talks for a replacement will not begin until after he is properly celebrated.
The host, who took over for Jon Stewart in 2015, told the audience Thursday, “My time is up.” Although he did not specify a timeline for how soon he would leave, he made it clear it would not happen immediately and that details were still be ironed out. “I’m not disappearing — don’t worry. If I owe you money, I’ll still pay you,” Noah quipped.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trevor Noah, the host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, will be the featured entertainer for the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on April 30. It […]
Greta Thunberg, Dr. Jane Goodall and Bill Gates appeared as guests across late night on Wednesday to discuss the issues of climate change. As Gates shared, “We have a lot to do here on Earth.”
Host Trevor Noah will bring Comedy Central’s latenight comedy series The Daily Show back to the studio tonight, for the first time since March of 2020. Noah had been hosting the show (renamed The Daily Social Distancing Show) from his apartment ever since New York City first shut down in the early weeks of the pandemic. However, The Daily Show will be leaving the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in Manhattan (where it has originated since Craig Kilborn hosted the program), and move to parent company ViacomCBS’s corporate headquarters in Times Square.
Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert criticized officers’ use of force against Black men, citing two cases in which traffic stops turned violent.
It has become a ritual — a somewhat inexplicable one, as TBS’s Conan O’Brien noted — for these comics to come on the air after acts of terrorism, school shootings or other national traumas to try to make sense of them for their audiences. “Today feels very different,” O’Brien said Monday night. “It doesn’t feel right to talk about my feelings of sadness and anger. That truly feels inadequate and somehow wrong.”
The Daily Show‘s Trevor Noah is streaming from his couch, Jimmy Fallon is checking in from his back yard and Jimmy Kimmel continues to offer quarantine “minilogues” as late night hosts continue their digital efforts to reach out connect with their sheltering-at-home viewers.
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah got inventive as it tries to navigate the television production shutdown brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Following the example of other latenight shows that have broadcast segments produced remotely, on Wednesday, The Daily Show‘s YouTube channel posted a video introducing the The Daily Social Distancing Show.
Latenight hosts dedicated a portion of their Monday night shows to speak out about gun violence in the wake of the tragic events that unfolded in Las Vegas on Sunday night. Jimmy Kimmel choked up in an emotional response to the deadly attack, while Seth Meyers had a pointed message for Congress.
NEW YORK (AP) — One day after an emergency appendectomy, Trevor Noah was expected back at his “Daily Show” anchor desk, taping a new episode set to air Thursday night. […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Comedy Central says “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah underwent an emergency appendectomy Wednesday morning. The procedure went well and Noah was expected back on the […]
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show will expand its original content for digital platforms as new host Trevor Noah comes on board. Comedy Central has hired Baratunde Thurston to that end to oversee the expanded digital content.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Incoming “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah said politics and the media will remain targets of the program but the perspective will be distinctively his. “The […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Comedy Central says Sept. 28 will be opening night for Trevor Noah as the new host of “The Daily Show.” The 31-year-old South African comedian will […]
Just-named new host of The Daily show, Trevor Noah, was a trending topic on Twitter today as he drew fire for jokes described as tasteless, hateful — and unfunny.
NEW YORK (AP) — The deal was done only last week, says Trevor Noah, the 31-year-old South African comedian who will take over “The Daily Show” from longtime host Jon […]
