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Trevor Noah Announces Exit From ‘The Daily Show’ After 7 Years

<p><strong>Trevor Noah<&sol;strong> bid his audience adieu in a special announcement on &&num;8216&semi;The Daily Show&period;&&num;8217&semi; On Thursday night&&num;8217&semi;s episode&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;people&period;com&sol;tv&sol;trevor-noah-exits-the-daily-show-after-7-years-my-time-is-up&sol;">Noah revealed<&sol;a> that he is leaving his late-night talk show after seven years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>One of the overriding feelings I found myself experiencing&&num;8230&semi;was a feeling of gratitude&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1575664029162475521" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>There are so many people who make this thing come together&comma; and I want to say thank you to the audience for an amazing seven years&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s been wild&period; I remember when we first started&comma; so many people didn&&num;8217&semi;t believe in us&period; It was a crazy bet to make&period; I still think it was a crazy choice&&num;8230&semi; What a journey it&&num;8217&semi;s been&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;top-5-reads-from-last-nights-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-tomi-lahren&sol;">&&num;8216&semi;The Daily Show&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;a> premiered in 1996&comma; and saw two hosts before the position was handed to Trevor Noah in 2015&period; Since then&comma; he&&num;8217&semi;s interviewed some of the biggest names in Hollywood and politics including Tyler Perry&comma; Mark Cuban&comma; Beto O&&num;8217&semi; Rourke&comma; Jenifer Lewis&comma; and even our Forever President Barack Obama&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Noah reflected on some of the most unexpected parts of his career&&num;8211&semi;including navigating the pandemic&&num;8211&semi;and has this to say about his journey&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>I&&num;8217&semi;ve loved hosting the show&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s been one of my greatest challenges&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s been one of my greatest joys&period; I&&num;8217&semi;ve loved trying to figure out how to make people laugh even when the stories are particularly sh&ast;t on the worst days&period; We&&num;8217&semi;ve laughed together&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ve cried together&period; But after seven years&comma; I feel like it&&num;8217&semi;s time&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><iframe title&equals;"YouTube video player" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;embed&sol;1FhXEGg8ADE" width&equals;"560" height&equals;"315" frameborder&equals;"0" allowfullscreen&equals;"allowfullscreen"><&sol;iframe><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Jon Stewart&comma; who hosted the show for 16 years before Noah&comma; spoke about the evolution of the talk show once Noah started hosting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>It&&num;8217&semi;t not meant as a denigration of me&period; The evolution of the show was also about opening our eyes to some of the realities of business around us&period; It was pretty much everything in late-night comedy&&num;8211&semi;that sort of Harvard Lampoon school of pasty white guys sitting in a room&period; Evolving the show past that took a really long time&period; It was a lot of work and often times it came with defensiveness&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>It&&num;8217&semi;s unclear where Trevor Noah&&num;8217&semi;s career is going next&comma; but we&&num;8217&semi;ll keep you updated&comma; Roomies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"99300" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;trevor-noah-announces-exit-from-the-daily-show-after-7-years&sol;" data-secure&equals;"b4292fe731"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; 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