Trevor Noah, the South Africa-born comedian recruited to replace Jon Stewart at the helm of Comedy Central’s influential “fake news” program “The Daily Show,” will be officially taking of the job on September 28.
“Late night will NEVER BE THE SAME. Or maybe it will,” a tweet from “The Daily Show” Twitter account said Thursday.
Ironically, it was tweets that initially gained Noah a considerable amount of unwanted notoriety stateside. Relatively unknown to American audiences, the 31-year-old biracial funnyman was inundated with bad press earlier this year when some of his past tweets deemed sexist and anti-Semitic were unearthed in the wake of the breaking news that he would be filling Stewart’s shoes.
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“To reduce my views to a handful of jokes that didn’t land is not a true reflection of my character, nor my evolution as a comedian,” Noah tweeted in response to the backlash.








