‘Daily Show’s’ Roy Wood Jr. Returns!
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
When Trevor Noah announced he would be stepping down as host of ‘The Daily Show,’ he cited a conversation with Roy Wood Jr. as part of what made him decide it was time to move on. In his return to the podcast, the longtime ‘Daily Show’ correspondent, who started the same day as Noah, talks about this huge moment of transition for the show and addresses the speculation that he is on the short list to take over as host. Wood also opens up about how Jerrod Carmichael’s ‘Rothaniel’ special lit a fire under him to put out his own deeply personal hour of stand-up and previews how he might cover Herschel Walker when ‘The Daily Show’ travels to Atlanta for the midterms.
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| 0:00.0 | When Trevor Noah shocked fans by revealing he would be stepping down as host of The Daily Show last month, this is how he began his announcement. |
| 0:09.4 | Before we go, I was chatting to Roy Wood Jr. yesterday when we finished the show, and he reminded me that it has been seven years since we started the Daily Show with Trevor Noah. |
| 0:24.6 | Yeah, this week is our anniversary. |
| 0:27.6 | And one of the overriding feelings I found myself experiencing throughout the night and even today waking up |
| 0:39.5 | was a feeling of gratitude. |
| 0:41.6 | You know, Ronnie, like the journey we've been on together |
| 0:45.0 | has been wild, you know, Roy, you know, |
| 0:46.8 | all the correspondence, everyone. |
| 0:48.6 | There's so many people who make this thing come together. |
| 0:51.1 | And I want to say thank you to the audience |
| 0:52.9 | for an amazing seven years. |
| 0:54.1 | It's been wild. |
| 0:54.9 | It's been truly loud. |
| 1:02.5 | This is the last laugh. |
| 1:04.4 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, |
| 1:06.6 | and this week I am so excited to welcome back on the podcast, the man who Trevor was talking |
| 1:12.3 | about in that clip, Roy Wood Jr. Roy, who was first on this podcast about a year and a half ago |
| 1:18.6 | and is one of my absolute favorite stand-up comedians, join the Daily Show right alongside |
| 1:24.1 | Trevor Noah in the fall of 2015. So this is a big moment for him as well, and not just because his name has popped up on |
| 1:32.2 | a lot of lists of potential successors to the Daily Show throne. |
| 1:37.0 | After Roy did a really funny bit with Trevor on the show a couple of weeks ago about his |
| 1:41.1 | apparent role in the host's decision to leave, I couldn't wait to invite him |
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