“It’s been wild,” Trevor Noah told his audience after revealing that his “time is up” on hosting The Daily Show. The news was certainly wildly unexpected.
Deadline understands that Noah told his studio audience of his departure before telling many members of the Comedy Central series’ staff, news that blindsided many.
The Daily Show sources said that it was “imperative” for Noah to share the news with his fans during yesterday’s taping as he wanted them to hear it from him first.
But that fact that Noah told a few hundred strangers, admittedly some die-hard fans but likely including many tourists keen to get a ticket to a show, before he told some members of his production team was hard to take for some.
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