He comes from a place that is really unique-the kind of place where most comedians don’t come from. Norton added: “He’s smart, and he’s got an interesting take on things. And he doesn’t force his opinions he’s certainly not a guy who muscles his jokes-which is perfect for television.” “The fact that he was able to develop into a good comedian so fast is a pretty strong statement about how good he is. “He’s a funny guy, he looks good on camera, he’s very original, so it’s not a surprising choice,” Norton told The Daily Beast. Ganeless added: “The short list is a very well-kept secret, but Trevor was on it.”Ĭomic and Vice television host Jim Norton-who has spent time with Noah at New York’s Comedy Cellar and on the defunct Opie & Anthony radio show where Norton was a regular-also praised the selection. You have to be an incredibly talented and prolific comedian in order to sit in that seat and do it justice.” When Jon told us he was going to leave after this year we sat down and thought about what it takes to host this show and quickly realized there was only a short list of people who could do that. “Jon Stewart is like no other, so we had to find the next great voice. “It was difficult and a little bittersweet because you’re replacing somebody who can’t be replaced,” Ganeless told The Daily Beast. It’s clear, however, from other sources, that Stewart played a major role in the choice, inviting Noah to join the show as a contributor more than a year ago. 10 announcement that he plans to retire after more than 16 years at the anchor desk. Ganeless declined to comment on Simmons’s speculation nor did she offer much insight into the search for Stewart’s replacement since The Daily Show host’s Feb. He gets out and watches people, and then puts them in as part of his act that night.”ĮSPN’s Simmons, who claimed that Poehler, Schumer, and Louis CK were each offered The Daily Show and turned it down, tweeted about Noah’s pick: “Young/cheap/upside was smart audible.” Ganeless continued: “He’s done standup all over the world, and he doesn’t sit in his hotel room when he goes to a new city. He’s a true student of the human condition he’s a citizen of the world his comedy is very layered, and he’s a very quick study.” What’s also remarkable about him is he thinks on his feet. “You can hear his brain working as he’s talking. “It has been a great joy to spend time with him, he is truly an extraordinary guy,” she said. No way!”Īttributing the dearth of women hosting late-night shows to the sexism endemic to showbiz-and an inchoate fear by television executives that male viewers won’t watch them-Behar insisted, “It’s anathema to the networks.”Īsked about the absence of women late-night comedy hosts generally, and whether a woman was seriously considered to host The Daily Show, Comedy Central President Michele Ganeless stoutly refused to address the hot-button issue, responding as though she would rather have a poke in the eye.īut Ganeless-who, after all, is not a man-was eager to talk up Trevor Noah in a brief phone conversation with The Daily Beast. Not for Conan O’Brien.”ĭespite the success of Chelsea Handler on the E! channel before she left for Netflix, “with these primo jobs, they’re not gonna give it to a woman.
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It’s Comedy Central! That channel appeals to the male audience.”Īnd even though Comedy Central has given series to female comics such as Schumer and Sarah Silverman, and currently features female stars on the sitcom Broad City, “women are not for this spot,” Behar says. “People were talking as if there was any scintilla of a chance they would put a woman in there. But he’s a guy-and that is the only thing you have to know,” Behar told The Daily Beast. “I never heard of him, he’s not an American, and I don’t know anything else about him. There would have been lots of different managers I know, all trying to pitch various clients if they were doing their jobs.”Ĭomedian Joy Behar-a familiar television personality as an original panelist on ABC’s The View, who went on to host cable interview shows on HLN and Current TV-also was not surprised, but for a different reason. “Comedy Central keeps things very close to the chest. “This search turned into a fun guessing game,” Brandstein said. The rumored candidates for the plum job included Daily Show regulars Samantha Bee, her husband, Jason Jones, and-according to a Monday morning tweet by ESPN commentator Bill Simmons-popular comics Amy Poehler and Louis CK as well as Comedy Central personality Amy Schumer.
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