Trevor Noah QUITS The Daily Show

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Why would someone quit a cash cow?

If only we had a link…

^ look it up yourself...are you lazy?

^ I feel a Third Reich reference coming...

[quote] I feel a Third Reich reference coming...

Why? This is the first post about this

He looks somewhat despondent in the pic at your link, OP.

[quote] ^ look it up yourself...are you lazy?

Provide a link to the fact you’ve just asserted…are you a moron?

Were the ratings down or did he just inherit a South African diamond mine? Because they're no other reasons for him to leave the show given its the best job he'll ever get as he was the luckiest fucker ever and only got it in the first place because John Oliver, Samantha Bee and everyone else in line for it fucked off to do their own shows.

[quote]He says his life is moving in a new direction

In the direction of my buss-he

No, but I’m not the Op of the thread Op. That’s your fucking job as the OP, not just to post what you think or what you’ve heard, but the ‘receipts.’ But you know that Ed, you know.

Receipts = proof, as if you didn’t know.

With that face and that ass, bro could do onlyfans

Here, someone had to find it and post.

Since OP is a lazy cunt, who also gets belligerent when called on his laziness, here is a link.

See, OP, it isn't hard to provide a link, you sad twat.

R15 you have anger issues

He’s dating Dua Lipa.

Never liked him.

It’s so easy, even Op couldn’t do it!

[quote]He says his life is moving in a new direction

He asks you to respect his privacy while he completes his transition.

Maybe Samantha Bee can finally take over.

I’m glad. I don’t like the idea of importing some snide cunt from another country to talk about how shit the USA is. I have the same issue with Oliver. Fuck then both. Let them go back to their respective basket case countries and do that there. They’d both be run out of town on a rail for doing so.

The OP is a loser

Will he be returning to Seth Efrica?

smug, entitled hypocrite

R21 very Ugly American of you.

Whatever, he's lucky he had it so long. Marginally funny and oddly unappealing. When COVID hit and all the comedy hosts tried to broadcast from home and/or without an audience, he sank. He just doesn't have ther skills to wing it on his own. I remember watching some of TDS episodes he broadcast from his home, and it was painfully awkward. Like a "flop sweat" situation.

Bring back Craig Kilborn and Beth Littleford!

I stopped watching The Daily Show when reality seemed more ridiculous than the parody, i.e., in 2016. It had nothing to do with Trevor.

He was ok, but I think Oliver is better, and John Stewart is Gawd.

Wish we could have Craig Ferguson but I don't think he wants to stay in the US as much as he'd have to

Why can't John Stewart come back ?

R27 Time for Old Craig to make his comeback. lol

Fired

Good.

He was cute but terribly unfunny.

I want Rosie O'Donnell!

I suspect he’s leaving due to being pussa whipa’d.

One fewer racist on television

Never cared for him.

John Stewart really got high on his own supply after 9/11. The show got weird. I might write an intellectual history on the Daily Show. It has been a fascinating run.

R33 called it. Read between the lines of the Variety article.

Definitely agree with R37. In what country are multiple Americans hired to ridicule their host country?

Wow, what is he doing next? Maybe a stand up tour? then an once a week show? Or is he going into acting? This is surprising!

Noah is simply not funny. And kind of a phony I suspect.

How did he survive so king? I remember the initial reviews unanimously expressed astonishment at how unfunny he was. Yet here he is years later.

Don't most hosts/performers/acting sign a seven-year deal? Maybe he just fulfilled his contract and didn't want to renew and he wants to simply move on.

Plus Samantha Bee's show was cancelled several months ago.

It's amazing the grating Samantha Bee's show wasn't cancelled several YEARS ago.

They're smart enough to know not to ever hire that unfunny cooter.

[quote] How did he survive so king?

Perhaps because he is not a mood and is not goals.

R50: "Perhaps because he is not a mood and is not goals."

And we wonder how Trump got elected in 2016.

What an INCREDIBLE LOSS to the world of television comedy A moment of silence as a giant leaves the field

Hope this nothing to do with his BOTCHED surgery he had few years ago.

R52 there's already a moment of silence everytime Trevor attempts a joke.

He has the biggest ass. I bet it looks amazing. Would love to see it

Is he going to marry Dua Lipa?

R51, the post you reference was making a joke about a notorious DataLounge poster who overuses the words king, goals and mood. It made sense to anyone who knows that poster and his predilections.

R50 isn't stupid, but the poster to which he refers is that and worse. You're better off not knowing more.

[quote]Why can't John Stewart come back ?

Isn't he basically doing a show for Apple TV that's practically an exact copy of the Daily Show? Honestly, I don't know why he left the Daily Show to basically come back and do another version of the Daily Show. I thought he was done with that, yet here he is going the same song and dance.

Is anybody still watching Late Night TV?

Not in years. Certainly not since they all went lockstep.

I still watch the Colbert and Kimmel monologues, a couple times a week. I think they're pretty funny.

Never watch the celebrity interviews though. Ugh.

Jordan Klepper

I've been watching Jimmy Kimmel this week as since he's broadcasting from Brooklyn. I have to say his David Letterman interview was rather unappealing, however it was Dave who was off.

I guess the big thing now will be Noah's replacement. I do hope it is a white male, just to see Twitter explode.

Noah alleges in the suit that all care he was given at the Hospital for Special Surgery "was performed and rendered in a negligent and careless manner, and constituted professional negligence," according to court documents.

In a statement, the Hospital for Special Surgery, or HSS, said the allegations are "meritless." It said it sent "Noah’s attorney a detailed rebuttal to the claims, which are meritless."

-He's an entitled whiny baby. Wouldn't be surprised it the allegations are meritless

Maybe he is too progressive and anti Trump for his corporate bosses.

Hee went in for bott ree-docktion surgery. He always had a beeg bott.

Hospital for Special Surgery? There is such a thing? “Special”?

He was never funny.

HSS is the best hospital for orthopedic surgery.

My cousin is a surgeon there and he's brilliant. He's also gay.

So uppity.

Very funny as a standup, too tryhard as TDS host. Good move.

R37/R43 it's because the white liberals (who hired them) are self-loathing Americans. Liberals love to talk shit about the U.S. and relish hearing/seeing foreigners bash America, too.

Also, they have a fetish about seeing Brits/Aussies/Europeans cosplaying as beloved American characters/icons. Hence all of the foreign actors currently on American TV and movies.

In general, LA and NYC (center of U.S. entertainment industry) have gotten so out of touch with the rest of the country. Many Americans are waking up to the fact that the New Left has become very anti-America on top of everything else (i.e., wokeness, open borders). Who wants that running/representing the country?

As the country becomes more conservative in the coming years, you are going to start seeing a lot more nationalism. Thus, liberalism will be passé and these foreign hires will become rarer, if not personas non gratas.

I think Noah senses this, as did James Corden when he announced in the spring that he will be departing THE LATE LATE SHOW next year.

He's being deported.

USA Uber Alles.

R67. The Hospital for Special surgery in Manhattan is where a lot of professional athletes go for orthopedic surgery; it’s got a great reputation.

I want to lick both sets of his dimples!

r73, liberals don't "bash" America as you claim. Liberals understand the hypocrisy of the idea of America and the reality of America. A real American would admit that this country, while great, has many, many flaws including a past built on the backs of genocide and slavery. America promises shelter for refugees and gives it but doesn't seem to care about our own citizens living in cardboard on the streets of our great cities. America promises equality for all and yet, women are still paid less, black men and women are still oppressed due to hereditary poverty and racism is still real. Gay men and women in this country are, once again having to fight for our rights when we were already granted them and women just had their rights to body anonymity taken away. A liberal understands all this and usually we are trying to make America better.

Your lot believes America doesn't need to be better. In fact, you think it needs to be worse for so many. It's truly sad how Conservatives think.

[quote]while great, has many, many flaws including a past built on the backs of genocide and slavery

ZZZZZZZZZZ. Stopped reading here. No, the country WAS NOT built on the backs of slaves. A few (relatively) old southern men got wealthy from slave labor...mainly farming. That's it. The US was built by immigrants. Explosive growth occurred during the industrial evolution.

I think it was a "mutual decision". His ratings had plummeted.

"Trevor Noah QUITS The Daily Show after 'wokery' saw viewing figures slump to around 363,000 a show - seven years after taking over from Jon Stewart who routinely pulled in an audience of 1.5MILLION"

He is doing worse than most of those awful Real Housewives shows.

Time to crack a history book R79. Do your people read?

[quote]Your lot believes.....

Not an American.

Rumor Mill around Hollywood was CBS was circling John Stewart to take over James Corden Show. Maybe Comedy Central booted Trevor to get back John Stewart. JS was on Kimmel tonight plugging his ratings dud Apple show.

Stewart ain’t coming back to late night on a regular basis.

I met Trevor a few times and was disappointed. He was boring, didn’t come across as witty or intelligent. On television he looks pretty muscular, but in person he’s just doughy.

I want him to sit on my face so I can tongue his hole for hours.

The answer must be ratings. Why isn't there more coverage of his ratings? Zero mention of this in Variety!? It seems like late night ratings are down in general, but my impression is that his were esp. weak even in the 18-49 demo that counts so much. Trump was a godsend to these shows.

He was fired for being a kaffir.

CANNED! Unfunny.

I watched Daily Show since Craig Kilborn, and Jon Stewart got lightning in a bottle with the latter Bush/Cheney years. Gaffe after gaffe, and people were exhausted with the wars and recession. It was a great escape to mock our powers that be at a very stressful time (nationalist post-911 fervor). God I remember howling at the skit about Cheney shooting his friend in the face while hunting captured quail.

Noah comes in during the Trump years in a very crowded field in which everyone and their mother makes fun of Trump non-stop. He’s nothing exceptional. If he and the Daily Show wanted to be counter cultural they would be ripping the horrid, gaffe-machine Biden/Harris admin, but they won’t. What’s the Daily Show’s purpose then? More anti-Trump?

[quote] My cousin is a surgeon there and he's brilliant. He's also gay.

Is he single, r70?

Who cares?

Most people stopped watching the regular channels twenty years ago and in recent years people left and right have gotten rid of broadcast ( cable) tv altogether and just watch through streaming.

Lucky guy. Made enormous amounts of money for seven years being barely adequate.

Oh no, I forgot to ever watch this and now I won't ever know how unfunny he was.

It's funny with comedians. The medium they appear in matters so much. Right after he started the Daily Show I saw one of his own shows when he came to my city. He was brilliant. Insightful and yet very funny. But I never liked him in the Daily Show. His delivery on the show is so predictable, always has been. He sounded smug, and simply not funny. (I do appreciate his outside perspective though. Same with John Oliver. Their perspective is often a better mirror on US society than someone from within.) Will certainly go to his show again. As person and comedian I like him, just not in the Daily show.

I’m sorry to hear this. I like Trevor, he’s absolutely adorable and funny.

Jordan Klemperer or Michael Kosta should absolutely be in the running for the spot. Maybe Samantha Bee, but her show didn’t do well in the ratings.

[quote] I do hope it is a white male, just to see Twitter explode.

Won't happen. See the last paragraph in R15's Variety link:

"Noah’s exit means that late-night will be less diverse, particularly after the exits of Bee and Singh and the end of the “Desus & Mero” program on Showtime. That dynamic could play a role in how executives at Comedy Central choose to proceed."

Seems like the market for political humor is crowded. Do we really need a Daily Show?

Someone gave me a copy of his autobiography. They couldn't make it past the first Chapter. I couldn't make it past page 2. Put it into our little free book house in front of the Local P.O. 6 months later, still there .AND I live in Woke central Hudson Valley.

Tried to watch twice. Unfunny, unappealing..Amazed he lasted this long.

I do not find him funny or insightful.

[quote]Noah is simply not funny.

I went to his stand-up act several years ago. A friend bought the tix and I didn't know what to expect as I don't watch The Daily Show anymore.

I thought he was very funny. And likable.

His ratings became very low, hence his "quitting". I am sure he will be paid a large severance fee to keep his mouth shut. CC doesn't want to be seen as racist for booting this unpopular host out.

Are low ratings (a matter of public record, surely) really not a good enough defense against charges of racism, were he to have been fired? I can see that he is quitting to save face and avoid being fired, and it's nicer for everyone that way, but that's different from saying they couldn't fire him without being seen as racist.

I have a feeling his quitting was somewhat forced as a result of lower ratings and budget. Of course his ratings are lower than Jon Stewart's. Cable networks are not raking in as many viewers anymore as they did. Streaming was stealing them away. Throughout his seven years Noah was probably also able to negotiate a pretty hefty salary since he was THE face for Comedy Central. Then streaming and Time Warner Discovery came. Time Warner Discovery has an already established history of thinning out original cable content. Examples were mentioned above. So dwindling ratings, and too-high-salary for the host probably made them look elsewhere for someone more affordable.

John Oliver is probably next. And then they will both come back, either on Paramount or Netflix. I'm sure they're happy to take them on.

Comedy Central is not own by Time Warner Discovery, R103.

never watched this show.

Not John Oliver too? Man.

To be honest, I canceled my cable services a few months ago. Strictly streaming now and I catch up on Trevor and John via YouTube. Hopefully Trevor can get with a streaming network because he is funny and charming to me anyway. Same with John Oliver.

What’s Samantha Bee been up to since her show was axed?

I agree with the poster above...i cannot stand foreigners who come over here to tell us what the fuck is wrong with our country. why don't you fuck off if you think it's so bad? go back to your own shitty country and fix that first before you criticize others

I was a Craig Ferguson fan and I remember when he started to make fun of hicks in the Midwest and South as part of his act - and I thought, oh no Craig, don't go there! Unlike Brits, Irish, Aussies, etc., Americans do NOT like to laugh at themselves. Or at least the audience for television at that time - already getting older and older.

And maybe an American could do it - but a Scottish man with an accent? Just no.

(I personally liked it but I was thinking of the audience at large. And he quit doing it and got sort of depressed or something... maybe he got a good talking to or was told he wasn't gonna get Dave's spot - and he'd always had a skinny production budget because of Dave's paranoia - thus the skeleton.)

Back to subject, I like Trevor but I detect some anger or disgust sometimes that is offputting. And once again, harder to take from a foreigner than homegrown Jon Stewart.

[quote]When COVID hit and all the comedy hosts tried to broadcast from home and/or without an audience, he sank.

This is exactly why I stopped watching him. I couldn't stand to hear him call it "The Daily Social Distancing Show." It was just such a stupid, stupid name.

John Oliver is critical of some aspects of US culture and rightfully so. No one gives him a hard time about it. I see what is going on here…

It would help if these foreign cunts are cute but they are not, I'm not gonna waste time to look at these ugly mugs.

Noah's handsome imo. No comment on Oliver - but I like his quick acerbic wit (or delivery when scripted). It doesn't have the undercurrent of chastisement I felt from Noah, if that's the word. He leaves me more depressed. Oliver makes it more, "it's just a laugh ha ha" (Trump, politics, life in general) He lifts my mood while Noah drags it down and I feel like he's putting me down (even though my attachment to my country is very tenuous)... though he's hot ymmv.

With Trevor leaving late night goes back to being all white

[quote] "Trevor Noah QUITS The Daily Show after 'wokery' saw viewing figures slump to around 363,000 a show

The king of late night talk shows is on Fox but the New York-Los Angeles media doesn't like to mention that

Notice any gender imbalance R113?

Rosie! Sarah Silverman!! Wanda Sykes!!! Don't give them one chance and give up - Joan 50 years ago - nervous Samantha Bee for 5 minutes. Was Chelsea Handler any good?

Wanda would check off two minorities (on latenight) at once! Hell, bring Oprah back. Nobody's watching but old people anyway.

Dulce Sloan could be the hostess…she is funny when not being preachy.

Or hijack Amber Ruffin from Peacock. She’s funny.

Chelsea Handler's show was ok while she let it about a slut talk show hostess, but then she followed the pack and became just another political pundit who wasn't smart enough to carry it off

I've never watched a full show with Noah, I've only seen clips.

Rosie, Sarah & Wanda are smart. Oprah has the confidence to walk out to an audience and just force you to believe in her and what she's saying.

And when they pick someone, give them time! Though maybe Chelsea had time - I never figured out when/where she was on (I almost never watch tv)

I just need a monologue (or lecture, if it's Oprah) to get my recumbent bike minutes in.

[Quote]Notice any gender imbalance?

Yes, I have R115 especially in daytime shows: The View, Ellen, Oprah, Roseanne Barr, Joan Rivers, Rosie, Meredith Viera, Rachel Ray, Kelly Clarkson, Martha Stewart, Katie Couric . . .

Current top 10

[quote] The top 10 female daytime talk show hosts on TV right now

Makes you thank god for TCM

[quote]This is exactly why I stopped watching him. I couldn't stand to hear him call it "The Daily Social Distancing Show." It was just such a stupid, stupid name.

I always love learning what the final straw is for some people.

Ellen and Wendy Williams are on that list. Whew - a lot has changed since February (or they don't read any gossip columns)

I do think Oprah's still viable despite some slippage.

But daytime is the junkyard of tv.

As for replacements for Trevor:

Roy

Jordan

Desi

In that order.

[quote]Lucky guy. Made enormous amounts of money for seven years being barely adequate.

R92 reminds me of a featured RenFaire performer I saw in S. Louisiana 20+ years ago. Was billed as "Barely Adequate." Which was the ONLY funny thing in his act--which included his 3 pet white rats (they were funnier than he). After his act ended he tried mightily to pick me up, using his white rat in his endeavor; but my lesbian friend put an end to that with a quickness.

Re: Trevor Noah? I got nothing. From jump he seemed terminally anti-charismatic (much like RenFaire Guy). Then again, I'd tired of Stewart's shtick 5 years before he left.

I think people eventually outgrow the "Look at me, I'm so clever" pundits like Noah, Stewart, Maher, Oliver, Bee, etc.

Even Vicki Lawrence had her own chat show and here she Dinah Shore who had her own daytime talk show.

I think he quick to get ahead of some kind of metoo story coming out. That’s the only way this makes sense

R129 that's a very good point. They're sanctimonious and too blaming/shaming. Plus they're preaching to the choir. The ones they're addressing are watching Fox News.

[quote] I'd tired of Stewart's shtick

Make an incredulous face and repeatedly say " fuck " . That's quality television.

I didn't get tired his shtick but he got too angry. I did get tired his "both siderism" but seems like that didn't last too long. Didn't he make Colbert join him for some rally - Let's never blame one side! - or some such shit. He got weird at the end.

R110 Oliver was criticized as well upthread. I find them both annoying and phony. Noah and Oliver just seem to radiate disingenuous moral outrage. Oliver makes a big thing about being some far left critic but he married some creepy military Republican. Noah will jump on right wing assholes but he himself made bigoted jokes early in his career.

[quote] Noah will jump on right wing assholes but he himself made bigoted jokes early in his career.

The Russians must have hacked him too

Well, I'm glad she's finally taking a bread and going forward with completing her transition. That half-done look Noah has been sporting is pretty ridiculous.

Hot couple

R94 Are you me? That's totally my take on Noah. His stand-up is hilarious, but his stint on The Daily Show not so much. On YouTube, I stumble upon some Daily Show clips with him every once in a while and I might chuckle a little but it's never laugh out loud uproarious. I don't think TDS is the best fit for Trevor. I would love to see Klepper get a shot in the main seat. He actually cracks me up in that format.

R131- A much more straightforward explanation is that his ratings are weak, he's seen what happened to Samantha Bee and he decided to get out ahead of it. He's already made a ton of money and became well-known and can tour and think about another vehicle. A lot of the MeTooing was by gross old guys with power like Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey or (not gross, but old) Charlie Rose. This guy is not at all in that category. Not saying a cute young guy can't also be inappropriate, but zero reason to jump to that conclusion.

[quote]I do hope it is a white male, just to see Twitter explode.

Right, because look how it totally melted down over Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon, O' Brien, Seth, Corbin, Oliver. I mean, my God, there were just mass hysteria among the woke!

And as for foreigners: Do you prefer the type of scum on the conservative side like Seb Gorka, Boris Epsteyn, Lara Logan, Peter Thiel and Elon Musk who come here, get all of the advantages offered to them and then attempt to turn the nation into a Fascist, racist one?

R113 SHEILA GRAHAM!

Jordan Klemper has a podcast with John Kasich. He doesn’t have much personality. I had to unfollow.

R143, I think you mean Klepper.

You mean the left hasn't melted down because he's doing a podcast with a Republican? Gee, it's almost like liberals can tell the difference between a traditional Republican and a sack of deplorable shit.

R104, mea culpa. I got that wrong. CC is owned by Paramount, not Warner Bros Discovery (or whatever they're called these days).

LOL, R90. No, he's not single. Sorry.

So the idiots who push "Make America Great Again" are apparently screaming at liberals because they don't think America is currently great? Do I have this right?

Whoever owns it, if only we were permitted à la carte channel packages I'd dump Comedy Central in a flash, along with Bravo, TLC, and ESPN.

He's decided to come and out and will be asking me to marry him.

Not that there is anything wrong with that.

[quote]I have a feeling his quitting was somewhat forced as a result of lower ratings and budget. Of course his ratings are lower than Jon Stewart's. Cable networks are not raking in as many viewers anymore as they did. Streaming was stealing them away.

The late-night format is so ancient and Trevor is still young and viable. He will definitely land a huge deal with a podcast or other digital media, I'm surprised he did the gig this long.

I might be biased because I want to have sex with him, but he is extremely charming in addition to being handsome, smart, single, etc. He checks off a lot of boxes for people, so he just needs to find the right form of media and he will flourish.

R9, if I recall correctly Samantha Bee said she was never offered the job.

R150 Probably podcasting and some standup routines. Also, he does speaking engagements for various major corporations and large professional organizations. He did one to for a professional org that I belonged to. So there's that. A lot of currently famous celebs do it.

[quote] He did one to for a professional org that I belonged to.

I guess Flo wanted too high an appearance fee

LINK = James Cordons ratings are in the dumper and have been for years.....And Trevors ratings are really low......CBS and Comedy Central are probably thrilled, and probably pulled the plug....

ratings are low because nobody is watching coz they suck! it's that simple! if you're funny and good, lots of people will tune in but they are not!

good riddance

Oh Trevor

did he get a nose job? his nose looks very pointy in 1R56

What were his gay jokes from years ago? Anyone of them?

I read here that he got some procedure done that left him permanently disfigured in some area of his body? it was a strange story. People were guessing that he had a botched adult circumcision or something like that. I dont think he would ever cut his face tho, he's too handsome

Greg Gutfeld is now the king of late night.

R159 I thought it was knee or leg surgery

Greg is ugly but he's very funny.

R152, I think the job of a late night host is to go after those in power with humor. To avoid the obvious Biden/Harris jokes is why they are not funny. Kimmel's propping up of a clearly declining Biden in that interview was sad. This is why Gutfeld is so popular ... every other host has left the field to him.

TL:DR

He tanked the show. Stewart had pretty good ratings. 1.5 million every night even at times as high as 2.5 million viewers.

Noah, who is pretty much just a smart ass and not funny, has a viewership of 350,000. One FIFTH of the show before he took over.

So he comes here from his shit hole country after living a privileged life there and immediately trashes the US and becomes very rich. Fuck him. Of course he was about to get fired. Thet gave him a graceful out.

Maybe I'll start watching again. When's his last unfunny day?

[Quote]Is anybody still watching Late Night TV?

Insomniacs who don't have cable or subscribe to streaming services

All of you who find him witty or insightful - you know there is a whole team writing these jokes? Like for every other late night host?

Johnny Carson would gently show his liberal political leanings in discussion with authors on his show like Paul Erlich but his humor was equal opportunity. His audience was the entire country.

Noah and the rest of them are strictly doctrinaire. Their "humor" doesn't aim for laughs. It is to be applauded and cheered in Manhattan, San Francisco, and similar markets.. Attacking and sneering at half the potential audience just seems like bad business but each network is locked in to it.

r163, late night hosts used to make fun of anyone in headlines, not just people with power. The Trump era made late-night hyper-political. Now that time-period is hopefully forever behind us. If your audience was tuning in for politics, they are likely tuning out.

r164, the show will NEVER be what it was with Stewart. That is like someone saying a daytime host will be like Oprah. That era of TV has been in sharp decline for many years and it's not coming back. There is no "next" Stewart or Oprah. People have many media/entertainment options and they won't tune in every night at the same time.

I blame DULA PEEP

Roy Blount Jr and Samantha Bee should divide it up

R163, but does Gutfeld have a variety of guests on? Does he have a band? Does he do skits or other types of bits?

I don't watch him. I've only seen short clips where he is pontificating about something. It just looks like a regular Fox opinion show that happens to be on late at night.

Whoever upthread said Wanda Sykes checks off 2 boxes....surely you meant 3?

1 Wanda's black.

2 Wanda's gay.

3 Wanda's a woman.

Wanda's also very funny and very smart.

Greg Gutfeld has a huge audience because nobody over 50 watches late night programming. Those still alive who watch Johnny, Dave, Jay, etc. are all aging Fox News viewers who are very, very reluctant to turn off Fox for another station....unless it stars Tom Selleck or Patricia Heaton.

Also, Greg is perpetually irritated just like his perpetually irritated audience. Hence his high ratings.

He just never registered. Jon Stewart registered as a cultural figure. Trevor was always just kind of there, barely noticed by the culture. I'm not sure they can do anything about that, but maybe.

[quote] All of you who find him witty or insightful - you know there is a whole team writing these jokes?

That was made abundantly clear. Some of the late show hosts still stayed witty and interesting when they had to retreat to their homes during the pandemic. I assume some of them perfectly capable like Conan O'Brien. Noah just floundered. He truly needed that audience and that surrounding master staff propping him up.

Good riddance.

They still had writers when they were at home.

The talk shows that are 5 days a week are a real grind. I'm not sure someone like Noah had the mindset to do this almost blue-collar like job until retirement age.

John Stewart....Come Back!!!

r178 it is a grind, and cable is an extremely fickle format. There are so many people to please. Think about Dave Chappelle who folded under pressure from that network. Noah did it for 7 years, which is a long time in TV, especially cable. Chelsea Handler's E! show was also on the air for 7 years, before she folded. That is a good run, and it wouldn't make sense for him to stay in that TV format being a younger person.

People also need to remember that Noah has been at the helm for the duration the tumultuous race protests in the U.S. in the late 2010s and early 20s. To me that was the area he handled best.

Larry Sanders lasted 10 years hosting a talk show on cable.

Good.

Wow. I can't believe people on here are complaining about John Oliver. The show is brilliant and has won the Emmy practically every year it's been on. Trevor Noah isn't funny. And he laughs at all his awful jokes. I stopped watching after the first episode I saw. Thank god he's leaving.

He probably wants to do an once a week show. Also, do some stand up. Or he wants to do acting? He got me through the nightmare of trump and Covid.

I do like John Oliver too, but I do admit he stays in his lane a little too much sometimes. There are actually things to laugh at on the left, including Trans stuff, but I know he never, ever, never, ever will. It always has to be from the exact same perspective every single time. The Right is largely shit, that much is true, but I wouldn't mind him expanding his horizons a little bit sometimes. Tavistock was tailor made for the John Oliver treatment, but of course, it would never ever happen.

John Oliver is smug and unfunny. Also, why is he always shouting?

r79 Not sure where you are getting your "facts:". You can't just say stuff.

The top 1 percent of the South you speak of were fabulously wealthy - three times wealthier than the top 1 percent of the North. However, the early years of the country, the first half of the 1800's, were all about the South, mainly cotton. In 1817, Mississippi was the wealthiest state in the USA.

What you speak of - the industrialization of the North, and it's affluence, came later. The historical revisionism you are describing is a way right leaning conservative American historians have of erasing a bit of history that is unpleasant and embarrassing. Without slavery there would be no economy in the South, and without the South, the USA would have never developed into what it is now. Therefore, it is not incorrect to say the USA was built on slavery. Very literally built in the early years, before 1850, and later as established infrastructure and institutions built during this period (legal system, educational system, etc.).

the Right really, really, really misses slavery. They love that shit. They wish they could have it, now and forever. They will settle for wage slavery, but they really truly deep down crave the real thing. It's where the modern American Right is heading, if they can get away with it.

This show had a season for a reason. It was post 9/11 Bush era pro war idiocy. It's no longer funny, it's no longer enjoyable. Time to move on because I sometimes feel like that show was the worst thing to happen to both comedy and journalism.

John Oliver shouldn't even be considered a talk show host. His show is only 1x week and has a completely different format. It's like a comedic version of 60 Minutes.

The Daily Show isn't a talk show either so I can see how someone isn't going to do it forever. The Daily Show just seems like a ripoff of SNL's Weekend Update.

Oh come on r190. Although it has changed a lot with Trevor, under John Stewart it was very much a cultural touchstone. Wingnuts hated it, but it doesn't change the fact that it really was a big deal. Now, it's just a meh. Not sure they can revive it at all, but who knows.

Amen r186 - why is he always so loud and shouting and smacking his hands on the desk. its so fucking annoying!

[quote] They will settle for wage slavery

Poor unfortunate wage slave Trevor Noah and his $16 million a year contract. Toby would feel sorry for him.

No Trevor is fine, that ain't the issue r193. The issue is what the wingnuts want for the rest of America. Their pissiness about the Left and Hollywood are immaterial, always have been. But damn, they crave slavery for the rest of us.

R191, I agree it was a big deal but it's not something someone would want to do forever.

I remember when John had Jimmy Fallon on and he was remarking how Fallon's show was just about having fun. I think John just got burned out by dealing with real life topics all the time and that's not something that someone who is comedian can do until they retire. Meanwhile, John was pointing out that Fallon was dressing up as Neil Young to sing with Bruce Springsteen.

Even NBC (which owns Comedy Central)---had an NBC Story on last night which said it was RATINGS....They even said he was only averaging 200,000 viewers.

My wife would be excellent for the job. You really should give her a call. Did I mention we're thinking of building a television studio attached to our house in Montecito?

r189 gets it. The show had its moment and it worked back then. Its a new time now and no matter who is hosting it just won't work as well.

Gay sex scandal!

Another thing about Noah is that he’s young. I think his relative youth has made his career more challenging because he is working with people that have had nighttime shows for years and John Stewart was on MTV before that

I enjoyed his autobiography and he is funny as a stand up. I never watched his show because he wasn’t funny. John Oliver is smug and pandering. Which is what happened to Jon Stewart at the end.

Unless they find someone who will skewer both sides and is funny I won’t watch. But ultimately this type of show has had its day. Hood luck Trevor!

Good….betting internet money a female POC gets the job.

I wish I was part of it r199 😔🤷🏽‍♂️

[quote] the Right really, really, really misses slavery. They love that shit. They wish they could have it, now and forever. They will settle for wage slavery.

That is such an unfortunate statement. It's why things can't get better. Like things aren't bad enough, you assume things out of nothing (I ever heard or read from anyone that they wanted actual slavery back). When you hyperbole the current bad situation you're only making it worse. You should know that at some point you will have to work with the right or their center right friends in order to improve things. Villifying the ultra right will not do anything. We already know they're bad. Go and find a way to improve, not make it worse. Thanks!

R200, I don't agree that his youth was the problem. Conan was a writer and was around 30 when he got his first hosting job. Fallon was 33 when he got his first hosting job.

Also, Noah didn't lack hosting experience. According to his Wikipedia, his career started in 2002 when he was 18:

"Noah began his career in South Africa in 2002. He had several hosting roles with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and was the runner-up in the fourth season of South Africa's iteration of Strictly Come Dancing in 2008. From 2010 to 2011, he hosted the late-night talk show Tonight with Trevor Noah, which he created and aired on M-Net and DStv."

I think the format was a big part of the problem as as R189 points out. They should have let Noah remake the show into anything that he wanted.

"Quit"

[quote]Samantha Bee and everyone else in line for it fucked off to do their own shows.

Samantha Bee wanted the show and got fucked over.

R206, but what is the 18-45 demo number? That's the only thing that advertisers care about despite the media in recent years trying to push total number of viewers as being the most important thing.

[quote] I have the same issue with Oliver.

I agree Bootsy…John Oliver was good for a year then it became exhausting week after week listening to his grievances. They should change the name of the show to Shit John Oliver Hates This Week. It’s just not healthy to subject yourself to such negativity week after week.

Oh God enough with Samantha Bee. She is like this century's Bonnie Hunt.

He quit for the same reason that James Corden quit--low ratings.

Damn! Stephanie Ruhle is kicking ass on MSNBC since she replaced Brian Williams. She gets twice as many viewers as Don Lemon at CNN. She's almost beating Jimmy Fallon!

Stephanie Ruhle is a Wall Street conservative. Makes sense she decent ratings like Gutfeld since there is less choice of shows for conservative viewers.

1. Yes, it was ratings.

2. The demo matters and the Gutfeld booster(s) don't post his ratings in that 18-49 category, because he is not as strong there. Of course when almost every other host is liberal or apolitical (Fallon) there are going to be people who want someone who agrees with them.

3. Noah is cute and charming. People like that don't usually become comedians, because they don't need to, so it's interesting he went that way. He already made a mint and will find other things to do.

4. Samantha Bee had terrible ratings too! That's why HER show ended. Why would anyone think they would replace him with her? Do they think her show was destroyed by a tropical storm or something?

5. Late night is polarized because the country and culture are polarized. It's a business and if someone could make more money being down the middle like Johnny Carson was, someone would be doing it. BTW, according to his lawyer/business advisor Henry Bushkin Carson, was a moderate Republican. (Not a surprise for a WASP son of a utility executive from Nebraska.) But people could watch and mostly not know where he was coming from except being vaguely socially liberal.

How do we know they didn’t encourage him to leave? His ratings declined every year from the year he took over from Stewart. It was down to about 5.2 this year.

r214 I dont think it matters; it seems like it was a mutually beneficial move for both Noah and network. As has been said many times, the show's format is now stale, its been going on since the 2000s and its time to reinvent. Noah is an industry favorite and not being confined to this show means more opportunities for him.

I'm not calling any of you racist, but I do believe consciously or subconsciously you just prefer getting your liberal and progressive news and commentary from white people. Because Trevor's show kept the basic spirit of The Daily Show. A humorous spin on the news of the day. Trevor is biracial, but he brought in more black and brown correspondents and writers. They were talking the same talk, I'm just not sure how Trevor ruined the show.

And for the poster above Paramount/CBS owns Comedy Central - not NBC.

R216 well if it makes any difference, I don't like Oliver or Noah and thought Stewart was very lame towards the end. I can't speak for everyone else.

r206 shows the guy's ratings were even smaller than Don Lemon. That's really bottom of the barrel.

[quote] That is such an unfortunate statement. It's why things can't get better.

Besides being a total non sequitur to the topic.

[quote] I'm not calling any of you racist, but I do believe consciously or subconsciously you just prefer getting your liberal and progressive news and commentary from white people.

So you're not calling us racist, but you still think we are. Who is 'you'? And what did we say to make you believe that color was our deciding factor? See my question as a genuine concern about the language we (sub-) consciously used that made you associate a post to racial bias.

I didn't call you racist, because I don't think you're racist. Don't get bent out of shape. Noah's take on the news, can make some people uncomfortable when coming from someone nonwhite. You see it all the time.

R220, it's not about nonwhite. I don't get the obsession with race. It's about someone who was nonAmerican. Who literally just got here and started trashing the country that would make him rich.

Anyone who didn't watch No-Wah is racist. Also, if you don't defend the Lemon,Queen of the Left, you're racist!! Fixed it for ya' R 216

R216 or maybe getting "liberal and progressive news and commentary" from a comedian is outdated and needs to be once again confined to a couple of minutes on SNL's Weekend Update.

R216 it sound like you're saying that Millennials and Zoomers are racists.

[quote]Hope this nothing to do with his BOTCHED surgery he had few years ago.

I want to know what this was about. Why won't he come clean about what he was having done? Was he getting his legs lengthened?

"Trevor is biracial, but he brought in more black and brown correspondents and writers."

With hands in pockets, first looking to the right, then looking to the left and now whispering: "....Yes, and that was the problem! Being diverse does not automatically mean they are funny.

[quote] Hope this nothing to do with his BOTCHED surgery he had few years ago.

[quote] I want to know what this was about. Why won't he come clean about what he was having done?

As part of many tribal cultures in South Africa, males undergo teenage circumcisions. This might be the botched surgery and he won't talk about it as it would be embarrassing.

[Quote] John Oliver is smug and unfunny. Also, why is he always shouting?

to prevent the audience from falling asleep

[quote] The demo matters and the Gutfeld booster(s) don't post his ratings in that 18-49 category, because he is not as strong there.

He beats in that category as well.

Trevor's farewell to The Daily Show

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑲𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒂 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝑽𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝑹𝒆𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒕

MSNBC bought his documentary. Maybe there is a future for him there. I saw an advertisement for it coming up on MSNBC but I don't remember when and my cable guide doesn't show it anywhere.