Trevor Noah Exits The Day-to-day Demonstrate After 7 Years: ‘My Time Is Up’

Or now not it’s a long way the wreck of an generation at The Day-to-day Demonstrate.

Longtime host Trevor Noah, 38, launched Thursday in a clip shared on Twitter sooner than that evening’s episode that he’s leaving the gradual-evening focus on value after seven years.

“If truth be told one of many overriding emotions I came upon myself experiencing … became a sense of gratitude,” he started, reflecting on his time on The Day-to-day Demonstrate.

“There are so powerful of of us that plan this divulge come together, and I are wanting to explain thank you to the target audience for an unprecedented seven years,” he persisted. “Or now not it has been wild. I be conscious when we first started, so many of us didn’t consider in us. It became a crazy guess to plan. I aloof assume it became a crazy different… What a lope it has been.”

He then discussed likely the most important enormous events that took place all the design by his dash.

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“Or now not it’s one thing that I in no design anticipated, and I came upon myself pondering all the design by the time, the total lot we like gone by — the Trump presidency, the pandemic, staunch the lope, the extra pandemic,” said Noah. “And I observed that after these seven years, my time is up. But in doubtlessly the most vivid system, genuinely.”

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Noah added, “I’ve cherished hosting the pricetag. Or now not it has been one of my splendid challenges. Or now not it has been one of my splendid joys. I’ve cherished attempting to figure out uncomplicated the vogue to plan folks chortle even when the tales are namely s—– on the worst days. We like laughed together, we like cried together. But after seven years, I occupy prefer it’s time.”

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“I’m in actuality grateful to a community who believed on this random comedian no one knew on this aspect of the world,” he concluded. “I in no design dreamed that I would be right here. I variety of felt like Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing facility. I came in for a tour of what the old value became, and then the following divulge I knew, I became handed the keys. I could presumably perchance now not like performed it with out [the audience], and I build now not like wished to attain it with out you.”

The Day-to-day Demonstrate premiered in 1996 with Craig Kilborn as host. Jon Stewart, now 59, took over from 1999 to 2015, when he handed the reigns to Noah.

In 2020, Stewart unfolded about how the The Day-to-day Demonstrate had developed since Noah stepped in as host.

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“Or now not it’s now not intended as a denigration of me,” said Stewart whereas on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Demonstrate at the time. “The evolution of value became moreover about opening our eyes to just some of the realities of trade around us.”

Reflecting on the pricetag’s early years, Stewart said “it became — like moderately powerful the total lot in gradual-evening comedy — that variety of Harvard Lampoon college of pasty white guys sitting in a room.”

“Evolving the pricetag past that took a extraordinarily very long time,” he admitted. “It became quite just a few work and on the total cases it came with defensiveness.”

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Stewart added that “it took 16 years to alternate it at a glacial tempo.”

“Because that extra or less mindset, to me, which ability that of I didn’t grow up in it … it’s now not a chunk of me,” he persisted. “For Trevor, it’s a chunk of him. It flows from him naturally. You don’t attain it which ability that of necessarily it’s a long way the merely divulge to attain — it makes it greater. The associated charge is greater.”

The Day-to-day Demonstrate with Trevor Noah airs weeknights at 11 p.m. ET on Comedy Central.