Getting used to Trevor Noah as the new host of The Daily Show is not going to be one of the easiest things for anyone, including Noah and the crew of the show. But one plan for the show, at least in the first week, is to take a few days to ease everyone into this huge change in our fake news-consuming habits. Rather than jump in headfirst and do things exactly the way former host Jon Stewart did (and yes, it was even weird for me to write that phrase), Noah and Company are going to present the new host’s first week as a four-day “miniseries” to introduce the new show.
We learned this week that Noah’s first guests will be — in this order — Kevin Hart, Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe, New Jersey Governor and GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie, and Ryan Adams, who will be performing from his cover of Taylor Swift’s 1989. But the overall format of the show will serve as a “reintroduction” and an explainer on how the new show is going to look. Noah explained to Rolling Stone:
…[Y]ou can’t just go off one episode like, Oh I know what this is about, I know what this is. It takes a lot more time. You’re building a relationship. So what we’re doing is dividing the first week into a four-part miniseries that will set the tone for what we hope the show will be.
That doesn’t clarify a whole lot, but it’s very clear that Noah will be working to make The Daily Show his own as time goes on. As he should, because when Stewart took over the show from Craig Kilborn, he made it clear that things were going to be different with him as the host. Not out of disrespect, but because this is going to be The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, not The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, but Jon Stewart Is Still Hiding Under the Desk Longing for His Old Job.
Get ready for the future, kids. It’s a brand new Daily Show, and it starts Monday, September 28.
Source: A.V. Club
