EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Colbert joined his old friend Charlamagne tha God to give his thoughts on who should replace Trevor Noah as host of The Daily Show.
The host of CBS’ The Late Show is a guest on this evening’s episode of Hell of A Week with Charlamagne tha God, which he exec produces and airs after The Daily Show with Trevor Noah on Thursday nights at 11:30pm.
After joking that his old friend Jon Stewart “is available”, because he only “does like 10 shows a year over at Apple”, he got serious for a second. “I like Roy Wood Jr.
a lot,” he said. When members of the audience shouted out that it should be a Black woman, Colbert backed Jessica Williams, who was a correspondent on The Daily Show between 2012 and 2016 and went on to host 2 Dope Queens. “I don’t know if she wants it, but Jessica Williams, I thought she’d be great,” he said before joking that she’s got all that “Harry Potter cash”.
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