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Shortly after Trevor Noah entered the shoes of Jon Stewart as the host of The Daily Show, his new bosses had panicked, though short, a crisis of belief in a new star of the show.
Not because of the extraordinary criticism that followed their choice, or scandal because of the old and somewhat problematic tweets who came back to persecute him. Not. Their suspicions, says executive producer of the show, Steve Bodow, were due to Noah's insistence during last year's US elections, which will become Donald Trump's 45th president of the United States.
This is one of the first things Bodow remembers when he talks about the beginning of Noah's two-year performance at the show. He "cursed up and down that Donald Trump would win. I thought we might have a bit of trouble, but we'll humor him, go with her," Bodow told laughter at the Tribeca TV festival in New York. ...
Bodow was joined on a discussion panel by Noah, The Daily Show head writer Zhubin Parang, as well as writers Michelle Wolf and Joseph Opio.
Noah turned out to be right and so too, it would seem, Comedy Central’s choice to tap him as the new host of an iconic late night television favourite. The show’s ratings are at an all-time high, and Noah’s contract was recently renewed through to 2022, to which Noah responded in typical dry humour: “It’s really exciting to renew this contract for either five more years or until Kim Jong-un annihilates us all — whichever one comes first.”
Both Noah and the show have moved beyond critics’ initial dismay at his appointment and Variety’s Maureen Ryan’s comments that the changeover was “as if our reliable attack dog had suddenly lost its teeth and self-medicated with Xanax,” has since lost its own bite.
‘AN EVOLUTION, NOT A REVOLUTION’
If lack of substance or stance was the problem at the start of his tenure, it certainly isn’t anymore.
To wit – he knows what he’s doing. His takes on racial discrimination especially have been lauded by viewers and it’s showing in the numbers. Noah was, and still is, patient for people to come around.
“One of the hardest things to understand when taking over The Daily Show is that progress was going to be incremental and, in many ways, it would be an evolution, not a revolution” says Noah.
“I remember Jon said, ‘take your time, it took me three years just to figure out how to sit in the chair’.” For his part, Noah says sitting in that chair is much harder than it looks…
But, he adds, he knows what his goals are. His mandate from the network was to garner new viewers, younger people who are no longer watching TV traditionally, and choose social media and streaming services as their source of entertainment.
Enter the Instagram clips and behind the scenes videos from the set that keep us transfixed long after we should have gone to bed. But ultimately, whether via social media or the show itself, he – and the rest of The Daily Show team – are telling “the story of America and how it is dealing with the force known as Donald Trump.”
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Noah turned out to be right and so too, it would seem, Comedy Central’s choice to tap him as the new host of an iconic late night television favourite. The show’s ratings are at an all-time high, and Noah’s contract was recently renewed through to 2022, to which Noah responded in typical dry humour: “It’s really exciting to renew this contract for either five more years or until Kim Jong-un annihilates us all — whichever one comes first.”
Both Noah and the show have moved beyond critics’ initial dismay at his appointment and Variety’s Maureen Ryan’s comments that the changeover was “as if our reliable attack dog had suddenly lost its teeth and self-medicated with Xanax,” has since lost its own bite.
‘AN EVOLUTION, NOT A REVOLUTION’
If lack of substance or stance was the problem at the start of his tenure, it certainly isn’t anymore.
To wit – he knows what he’s doing. His takes on racial discrimination especially have been lauded by viewers and it’s showing in the numbers. Noah was, and still is, patient for people to come around.
“One of the hardest things to understand when taking over The Daily Show is that progress was going to be incremental and, in many ways, it would be an evolution, not a revolution” says Noah.
“I remember Jon said, ‘take your time, it took me three years just to figure out how to sit in the chair’.” For his part, Noah says sitting in that chair is much harder than it looks…
But, he adds, he knows what his goals are. His mandate from the network was to garner new viewers, younger people who are no longer watching TV traditionally, and choose social media and streaming services as their source of entertainment.
Enter the Instagram clips and behind the scenes videos from the set that keep us transfixed long after we should have gone to bed. But ultimately, whether via social media or the show itself, he – and the rest of The Daily Show team – are telling “the story of America and how it is dealing with the force known as Donald Trump.”
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