Trevor Noah is officially leaving The Daily Show on December 8 - The A.V. Club

Trevor Noah has present acceptable the day for his last time arsenic big of The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, with Comedy Central issuing a property merchandise contiguous stating that Thursday, December 8 volition beryllium Noah’s last broadcast.

Noah amazed many—including, reportedly, immoderate radical connected the show’s crew—when helium announced to his audience, backmost connected September 29, that his seventh twelvemonth hosting the bid would beryllium the last. Noah has expressed a tendency to get backmost to doing much touring arsenic a stand-up comedian; already an established planetary beingness erstwhile helium took implicit the bid from Jon Stewart backmost successful 2015, Noa commented back astatine the time that helium was taking thing of a wage chopped by moving to the series, which massively curtailed his quality to tour.

In the property release, Comedy Central noted that the week starring up to Noah’s Thursday nighttime swan opus volition beryllium spent paying homage to his tenure. The web besides announced that the amusement volition spell connected hiatus for the twelvemonth pursuing December 8, returning connected January 17, 2023— “with further details forthcoming.”

That, obviously, being an allusion to the large question present hanging implicit The Daily Show, i.e., “Who’ll beryllium the 4th big of 1 of Comedy Central’s astir long-running and palmy franchises?” Early speculation centered connected Noah-era regular contributor Roy Wood, Jr.—whose effect to said speculation mostly involved making amusive of TMZ’s photograph choices for him connected Twitter. The questions surrounding the bid are besides exacerbated by reports of problems precocious up astatine Comedy Central, with a caller THR piece suggesting that caller CEO Chris McCarthy—who issued a connection contiguous praising Noah, and got 1 from the outgoing big successful return—has failed to found beardown relationships with the endowment who really makes the network’s shows.