As Trevor Noah Heads For The Stage Door, ‘The Daily Show’ Team Shocked At Timing Of Exit
01.10.2022 - 01:25
/ deadline.com
“It’s been wild,” Trevor Noah told his audience after revealing that his “time is up” on hosting The Daily Show.
The news was certainly wildly unexpected.
Deadline understands that Noah told his studio audience of his departure before telling many members of the Comedy Central series’ staff, news that blindsided many.
The Daily Show sources said that it was “imperative” for Noah to share the news with his fans during yesterday’s taping as he wanted them to hear it from him first.
But that fact that Noah told a few hundred strangers, admittedly some die-hard fans but likely including many tourists keen to get a ticket to a show, before he told some members of his production team was hard to take for some.
Noah is thought to have quietly re-upped his deal earlier this year and he and his team were recently celebrating scoring seven Emmy nominations – the most since he took over from Jon Stewart in 2015.
The comedian is evidently keen to get back on the road, while also trying new things. Noah, an incredibly popular figure on the live stand-up circuit, is performing this evening and tomorrow at the Toronto Scotiabank Arena in Canada and has other shows in Halifax and Orlando, Florida, booked over weekends off from The Daily Show.
He has been ramping up projects at his Day Zero Productions label as well, having recently hired Sanaz Yamin to run it as President with former Marvel TV exec Devon Quinn hired last year to oversee live-action and animated TV.
Last year, the company said that it had 50 projects in development. Projects in the works have included a feature adaptation of his Born a Crime book and a reboot of The President’s Analyst, while there was talk of a mockumentary comedy series featuring Noah in the works