Trevor Noah celebrates his last episode hosting "The Daily Show" after 7 years behind the desk - CNN

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Trevor Noah’s last nighttime arsenic big of Comedy Central’s satirical quality study “The Daily Show” celebrated his 7-year anchoring tenure and featured a packed audience, afloat formed of correspondents and star-studded farewell messages.

“Don’t beryllium sad,” Noah said successful his closing monologue, adding, “It doesn’t consciousness similar 7 years. Well, not astatine the desk. Obviously I went location successful between. But still, it’s been a chaotic ride.”

A lineup of correspondents’ segments paying tribute to Noah and a video montage of goodbyes from Oprah, Issa Rae, Kamala Harris, Tracy Ross, Bill Gates, Hillary Clinton and much helped usher the big done the night.

“I would ne'er unreal to recognize America, you know, successful the comparatively abbreviated clip I deliberation I’ve been here,” said Noah, whose position arsenic a South African comedian brought an outsider’s position to the show. But helium did connection a fewer lessons helium has learned.

Noah noted the beardown power American governmental parties hold, encouraging his assemblage to see issues extracurricular the lens of politician oregon enactment ideals.

“As we unrecorded successful a nine wherever we progressively present ourselves to things that abstracted us, we hide that existent friendships travel from the similarities, and past the disagreements are however we polish each different arsenic quality beings,” helium said.

“Issues are real, but authorities are conscionable an inventive mode to lick those issues,” Noah said. “It’s not a binary. There are not conscionable 2 ways to lick immoderate problem. There are not conscionable 2 ways to be.”

In the past minutes of the show, Noah thanked Black women, peculiarly those who took the clip “to pass me, to amended me, to reason with me.”

“I’ve often been credited with, you know, having these expansive ideas … Who bash you deliberation teaches me? Who bash you deliberation has shaped me, nourished me, informed me. From my mom, my gran, my aunt – each these Black women successful my life,” the big said.

“If you genuinely privation to larn astir America, speech to Black women,” helium continued.

Noah took implicit the programme successful 2015 from long-time big Jon Stewart whose 16-year tally of the amusement shaped it into a late-night staple.

The comedian had appeared arsenic a analogous connected “The Daily Show” for lone a fewer months earlier helium was tapped to capable the anchor chair. Though little-known to American tv audiences astatine the time, Noah had already garnered a important pursuing extracurricular the US.

He rapidly molded the programme astir him, puckishly guiding his assemblage done singular nationalist experiences specified arsenic the Trump presidency and the Covid-19 pandemic.

When Noah announced his exit from the amusement successful precocious September, helium hinted that his determination was inspired by a tendency to execute retired from down the desk.

“I spent 2 years successful my apartment, not connected the road, and erstwhile I got backmost retired there, I realized there’s different portion of my beingness retired determination that I privation to transportation connected exploring. I miss learning different languages. I miss going to different countries and putting connected shows,” Noah said.

The comedian is lone taking a little hiatus earlier hitting the signifier again. He kicks disconnected his “Trevor Noah: Off The Record” circuit successful Atlanta connected January 20.

When the amusement returns connected Tuesday, January 17, the web has announced a lineup of comedic greats who volition capable successful arsenic host, including Chelsea Handler, D. L. Hughley, Leslie Jones, Hasan Minhaj, Kal Penn and Wanda Sykes.

But the semipermanent aboriginal of the amusement remains unclear arsenic the web has yet to accidental whether guests hosts volition revolve indefinitely oregon if a imperishable big volition beryllium installed successful the chair.