Trevor Noah departs from ‘The Daily Show’

The late-night-talk landscape is about to change, with prime evidence now at hand.

James Corden will leave CBS’ “The Late Late Show” in mid-2023, but first, Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” will undergo a transformation. Trevor Noah – first the “Senior International Correspondent” for the weeknight program, then its host since Jon Stewart (who succeeded original host Craig Kilborn) departed from it in 2015 – will sign off from it with the Thursday, Dec. 8, telecast.

As any host of such a showcase typically does, South Africa native Noah has put his own stamp on “The Daily Show,” to the extent that he was invited to host the Grammy Awards in both 2021 and 2022 ... plus the White House Correspondents Dinner earlier this year.

By 2017, Noah had accrued enough support of his work to earn him a fiveyear extension of his deal. However, he and the show faced a major challenge with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. “The Daily Show” was converted into “The Daily Social Distancing Show,” done from Noah’s home, and continued in that fashion until the series went on hiatus for the summer of 2021. It picked back up from a studio that fall without an inperson audience, which returned last spring.

Noah has suggested that he’ll largely go back to in-person comedy performances, something he felt the urge to do once he started traveling for work again after the height of the coronavirus pandemic. In fact, he recorded his third Netflix stand-up special (“I Wish You Would”) in Toronto recently; it premiered on the streaming service just before Thanksgiving.