At a recent TCA panel, Noah explained that, while “The Daily Show” was in part a response to the “emerging 24 hour news cycle”, the media landscape is very different now.
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Comic Kevin Hart will be the first of an eclectic list of guests on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” during Trevor Noah’s first week as host.
In contrast, the man he will be replacing is a widely revered comedian who over the course of 16 years on the job transformed “The Daily Show” into essential election-year viewing and the Emmy-winning jewel in Comedy Central’s crown.
“One thing I always grew up with in my house was laughter”, he said. Meanwhile, Entertainment Weekly points out that Noah, like Stephen Colbert, made sure to include celebs, politicians, and industry execs in his first week.
“I speak from the most honest place possible when dealing with race, and I’m not angry…”
“I don’t try and shock people, I don’t try and say things for the sake of being controversial”, he says.
Hart is working on a number of projects, including a sequel to his comedy with Ice Cube (Ride Along 2), the pseudo-reality series Real Husbands Of Hollywood, and the animated film, The Secret Life of Pets.
He made his stand-up comedy debut earlier that year at a small campus event.
“Should we erase our history because someone will judge us by that now, in the present?” poses Noah, and says no. “I think history is a reminder of what not to repeat”. “It’s easy to create any narrative you choose to, if you pick the right excerpts of anybody’s life or things that they’ve said”, said Noah.
By way of explanation, he invokes another metaphor: As a child, Noah would ask his mother for help locating misplaced belongings and she would gently steer him in a more self-reliant direction.
“It’s a process”, says Noah.
“I want somebody to go, “I can not imagine the show without him”.
The set of “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah“.
“It worked out well, so I just kept doing it”, says Chieng. “I go look for the answer as if Jon Stewart doesn’t exist”. “He’s smart and he’s really amusing, and that’s what I look for”. The 31-year-old is nervous, just like anybody would be on their first day on a new job.
And if his foreign born status conjures up that classic “Mean Girls” moment-after all, He’s not even from here!-well Noah is in on the joke, too.
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“I’m as worldwide as Trevor”, he adds, “so I think that’s what I bring to the table, a different perspective in terms of where I’ve come from, where I’ve lived”.
