As former Daily Show host Trevor Noah accepted an Emmy for his final season, the correspondent Roy Wood Jr. emphatically mouthed a silent plea from the stage: “Hire a host. Please.” After Noah dropped the surprise announcement in September 2022 that he was stepping down, Comedy Central struggled to formulate a plan to hand off its most enduring franchise, complicated by a New Yorker article accusing Hasan Minhaj, widely assumed to be Noah’s heir apparent, of fabricating anecdotes about his personal experience of racism. Three weeks after Wood’s lip-synced entreaty, the network announced its decision. The new host of The Daily Show would be … no one.
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