Trevor Noah Says Emotional Farewell in Final ‘Daily Show’ Episode by Thanking Fans and Black Women - Hollywood Reporter

Trevor Noah kicked disconnected his last amusement connected The Daily Show with jokes astir Kanye West, Hillary Clinton and the pandemic.

“When I started this show, I had 3 wide goals,” the big said. “I was similar I’m gonna marque definite Hillary gets elected. I’m gonna marque definite that I forestall a planetary pandemic from starting, and I’m gonna go champion friends with Kanye West.”

The comedian past went connected to outcry retired his correspondents, starting with Michael Kosta, who said helium was crushed that Noah is leaving the show. Then helium kicked it implicit to Desi Lydic, who joked she would beryllium doing Noah’s exit interrogation connected behalf of Paramount. She began by asking him what her champion property trait was, and past what he’ll miss astir astir her. “Everyone who knows you is fortunate to cognize you,” Noah told Lydic, earlier jokingly adding, “one of the funniest radical I’ve ever met but 1 of the worst upwind radical I’ve ever worked with.”

Dulcé Sloan was the adjacent analogous to accidental goodbye to the seven-year Daily Show host. She joked that helium was leaving them to spell connected and marque movies, similar the Hemsworth brothers. When Noah insisted helium didn’t person thing lined up, that helium conscionable wanted to instrumentality immoderate clip off, she questioned his choice. “So, you conscionable leaving a occupation to bash nothing?” she asked. “Wow, you truly are fractional white.”

Ronny Chieng took the signifier to stock what’s trending connected societal media. “You cognize what’s trending close now, my feelings,” helium told the host. “You saved maine from having to enactment with amateur producers from Australia and Singapore.” Chieng added, “The full clip it felt similar it was america 2 immigrants coming unneurotic to archer Americans what’s incorrect with them, which they ever appreciate.” After visibly getting emotional, Chieng joked with Noah that it was a lie, helium wasn’t really sad, and alternatively asked, “Can I beryllium the caller host?”

One of the last correspondents to accidental farewell to Noah was Roy Wood Jr., who told the big to yet travel cleanable successful his past episode. When Noah asked Wood what helium needed to travel cleanable about, helium said, “You ain’t really African.” Wood continued the bit, asking if helium truly was from Africa, “Why you beryllium talking each British then?” adding, “ain’t nary African dependable similar that, man.” As Noah continued to contradict it, Wood gave up and said, “Whatever, it’s been a bully run.”

Jordan Klepper ended the analogous farewells, referring to himself arsenic the idiosyncratic who spends each different week successful America, “almost getting murdered by QAnon psychopaths,” to which Noah replied that helium was amazed Klepper was inactive alive. The analogous past introduced a Trevor Noah mentation of Jordan Klepper: Fingers the Pulse. Klepper deed the streets of Midtown Manhattan wherever helium asked passersby astir Noah’s departure from The Daily Show.

After a abbreviated break, Noah welcomed Neal Brennan to the stage, astir 13 years aft the friends met astatine the Comedy Store successful Los Angeles. When they met, Brennan told Noah, “America doesn’t tolerate radical with accents connected TV, truthful you should leave.” Once John Oliver began uncovering occurrence arsenic the big of Last Week Tonight, Brennan called Noah and told him to travel back.

Noah went connected to praise Brennan’s newest special, Blocks, earlier Brennan returned the favour with Noah’s standup I Wish You Would, calling it his favourite of Noah’s standups and his “strongest, cleanest material.”

In his last sign-off arsenic the Daily Show host, an affectional Noah took a fewer minutes to convey the fans and Black women who shaped his life.

“I’m grateful to you, each azygous 1 of you,” Noah said successful a clip released up of the airing of his last show. “I retrieve erstwhile we started the show, we couldn’t get capable radical to capable an audience.”

He went connected to accidental that’s however drama is, too. He recalled that erstwhile helium started retired arsenic a comedian, determination were bare seats astatine his shows, and that’s wherefore helium doesn’t instrumentality it for granted now.

“Every spot that has ever been filled to ticker thing that I’m doing, I ever admit ’cause I cognize the bare spot that sits down it, truthful convey you,” helium continued. “Thank you to the radical who watch, the radical who stock the clips, everyone who’s had an opinion, everyone who’s been benignant capable and gracious enough.”

Noah adjacent thanked the radical who critiqued his amusement oregon hate-watched it. “We inactive got the ratings,” helium joked. He past switched his absorption and gave a peculiar shoutout to Black women.

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

He continued by saying that helium tells radical if they privation to larn astir America, they should inquire Black women because, “unlike everybody else, Black women cannot spend to fuck astir and find out.”

“Black radical recognize however hard it is erstwhile things spell bad,” Noah added. “When things spell bad, Black radical cognize that it gets worse for them. But Black women, successful particular, they cognize what crap is.”

The Daily Show host concluded his last conception by offering a spot of proposal to people.

“If you genuinely privation to cognize what to bash oregon however to bash it, oregon possibly the champion mode oregon the astir equitable way, speech to Black women,” Noah said. “They are a batch of the reasons that I’m here.”

More details volition beryllium added to this communicative aft the occurrence airs.