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Trevor Noah to Succeed Jon Stewart on ‘The Daily Show’

 

In December, Trevor Noah, a 31-year-old comedian,

as an on-air contributor on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” offering his outsider’s perspective, as a biracial South African, on the United States.

 

“I never thought I’d be more afraid of police in America than in South Africa,” he said with a smile. “It kind of makes me a little nostalgic for the old days, back home.”

 

Now, after only three appearances on that Comedy Central show, Mr. Noah has gotten a huge and unexpected promotion. On Monday, Comedy Central announced that Mr. Noah would be the new host of “The Daily Show,” succeeding Mr. Stewart after he steps down later this year.

The network’s selection of Mr. Noah comes less than two months after Mr. Stewart, 52, revealed on Feb. 10 that he was leaving “The Daily Show” after a highly successful 16-year run that transformed the show into authoritative, satirical comedy on current events. (An exact timetable for Mr. Stewart’s departure has not been decided, Comedy Central said.)

 

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I suspect most will never have heard of him: I hadn't. But I went to youtube and spent a good hour watching/listening to his stand up (I was at work so what else did I have to do?).

 

Impressive. A talented mimic and impressionist. Calls it like he sees it. I think he may do very well.

 

But I never really watched the Daily Show even though I like Jon Stewart. I doubt I'll start watching now. So personally it won't make much difference to me.

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Trevor Noah defends self in backlash to old tweets

NEW YORK (AP) — Trevor Noah, the newly announced host of "The Daily Show," rejected the backlash over his graphic tweets targeting Jews and women as an unfair reflection of him and his comedy.

 

 

"To reduce my views to a handful of jokes that didn't land is not a true reflection of my character, nor my evolution as a comedian," Noah posted Tuesday on his Twitter account, the same one that included past tweets others deemed offensive.

 

Comedy Central also came to his defense, calling Noah a "provocative" comedian who "spares no one, himself included."

 

"To judge him or his comedy based on a handful of jokes is unfair," the network said in a statement, adding that he has "a bright future at Comedy Central."

 

Noah was announced as Jon Stewart's successor Monday. The next day, he was a trending topic on Twitter as he drew fire for jokes described as tasteless, hateful — and unfunny.

 

Roseanne Barr was among those calling out the 31-year-old South African comic, who has an international following and 2 million Twitter followers.

 

"U should cease sexist & anti semitic 'humor' about jewish women & Israel," she tweeted late Monday.

 

Noah's controversial tweets were posted between 2009 and 2014.

 

In 2009 he wrote: "Almost bumped a Jewish kid crossing the road. He didn't look b4 crossing but I still would hav felt so bad in my german car!"

 

A 2012 post derides "jewish chicks." Another one from 2011 jokes about "a hot white woman."

 

In a post from 2011, he writes: "Oh yeah the weekend. People are gonna get drunk & think that I'm sexy!" He attributes the joke to "fat chicks everywhere."

 

He also slammed the United States' midsection in a 2013 tweet, writing that "When flying over the middle of America the turbulence is so bad. It's like all the ignorance is rising through the air."

 

The tweets showed a different side to Noah than the picture painted by Comedy Central and the comedian himself just a day earlier: In a phone interview Monday from Dubai, where Noah was traveling on a comedy tour, he likened himself to the New York-born Stewart, saying, "One thing we both share: We are both progressives." He added, "traveling the world I've learned that progressives, regardless of their locations, think in a global space."

 

Noah, the son of a black South African mother and white European father who speaks six languages, was being pitched by Comedy Central as reflecting a new age of global multiculturalism, "a citizen of the world," in the words of Michele Ganeless, the network's president.

 

He was named a little more than a month after Stewart unexpectedly announced he was leaving "The Daily Show" following 16 years as the show's principal voice. Although no dates have been disclosed, Stewart is expected to depart by the end of the year, with Noah taking over soon afterward.

 

On Monday, Ganeless spoke of the advantage of introducing Noah to a mainstream U.S. audience through "The Daily Show," with viewers coming to the show he hosts with no preconceptions. "They will get to discover him, and form their opinions of him, as they watch him host."

 

But by Tuesday, some opinions were already forming. Weighing in on Noah's selection, a Slate column compared his vetting to that of Sarah Palin as a running mate for presidential candidate John McCain.

 

The choice of a new host for "The Daily Show" is a critical decision not only for the satirical-news program, but for the network, whose identity has largely been forged by the "Daily Show" franchise, which for years was followed by the likewise signature "The Colbert Report."

 

By the end of this year, Comedy Central will have completely remade this programming block. In January, African-American comic Larry Wilmore replaced the "The Colbert Report" hosting "The Nightly Show."

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Jon Stewart is just this side of irreplaceable, but I think that on this show, the writers are the most important aspect. If the writers stay, Trevor Noah will do just fine. He won't be Jon Stewart, but who is?

 

He is irreplaceable but i hope his style of informative comedy goes on, unfortunately with a foreign accent America's criticism may not go far enough..

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Jon Stewart is just this side of irreplaceable, but I think that on this show, the writers are the most important aspect. If the writers stay, Trevor Noah will do just fine. He won't be Jon Stewart, but who is?

 

Nobody could be a new Jon Stewart but looking so different (age, ethnicity and accent) will make us avoid comparing him to the former host.

 

I'm not sure I would take jokes about my country from a foreigner like him and may I recommend him going easy on jokes about Jews...

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