Later today Comedy Central (DStv 122) will name South African comedian Trevor Noah as the replacement host for The Daily Show on Comedy Central (DStv 122) The New York Times reports.
After only three appearances since December
on The Daily Show, the Viacom pay-TV
channel will announce that Trevor Noah is taking over as the new host in the
place of Jon Stewart who announced his retirement last month. Jon Stewart's
contract ends in September.
News leaked over the weekend that Trevor Noah
was the frontrunner to replace Stewart.
Before
appearing on The Daily Show since
December, Trevor Noah appeared on The Late
Show with David Letterman in 2013, and early in 2012 became the
first South African comedian and "first African comedian" to appear and do
stand-up on The Tonight Show with
Jay Leno.
His Showtime channel stand-up special, Trevor Noah: African American was
broadcast in 2013.
Although Trevor Noah on The Daily Show plays an uninformed
American, clueless of international events and is seen as African-American, his
mother is South African and his father is Swiss.
Noah, repped by Creative Artists Agency in America,
previous did his own local talk show, Tonight with Trevor Noah on M-Net from August 2010 which
lasted two seasons. His Nationwide
Comedy Tour has just been added by MultiChoice to DStv's DStv
BoxOffice video-on-demand service.
Trevor Noah's appointed as new host of The Daily Show comes after only three
appearances on the satirical news show.
"I'm thrilled for the show and for Trevor," Jon Stewart
says in a statement. "He is a tremendous comic and talent that we've loved
working with. I may rejoin as a correspondent just to be a part of it!"
