Interesting choice with Trevor Noah. It’s hard to predict what he’ll be like, but I think he could be good.
There have been some other contributors who never have field pieces, like Kristen Schaal, John Hodgeman, Lewis Black, and Demetri Martin. Larry Wilmore had a few rare times when he was in the field, but the vast majority of his appearances were sit-downs with Jon.
More likely that Jon Stewart identified Trevor Noah as a possible replacement a while back and had him on in December as a sort of audition.
That is pretty much what I was saying.
Yup, pretty good pick, but damn, I was really pulling for Jessica Williams. Ah well…
Huh, so Variety gives good rumor. I’ve have to remember that the next time they rumor something.
Now they need to properly work out the format. Larry Wilmore is great and his monologue section of his show is great. It’s the rest of the show with other people that stinks. The TDS staff need to learn from that.
So, how long before he comes on to the set and starts measuring for his new desk?? 
I’ve seen him once on the Daily Show, and I was impressed. I just pulled up a couple of his links on Youtube–and it’s been a long while since I cried with laughter like that. I love this guy.
Edit: two links (sorry if they’ve already been posted):
Tacos
Live at the Apollo–especially the bit at the end about learning German
Personally, I don’t think he’ll be that strongly embraced by the comedy central audience. Superficially, he just sounds too high faluting with that accent.lol. But also, from what I’ve seen, his act of course has a lot of racial issue stuff. Apparently that’s a big theme on the Nightly Show. Doubt they’re going to get a lot of people to laugh and learn about American race issues an hour every night.
Personally, he’s only so so funny for me. We’ll see but pretty sure they aren’t going to catch lightning in a bottle again. The era of the hippest 11:00-12:00 slot is going to move stations.
John Oliver did fine last summer.
Maybe you don’t have an ear for it, but John Oliver does not have a high faluting accent. That’s man on the street English. Noah sounds like he was sent to the poshest of prep schools.I think critiques of American politics with that accent might rub some the wrong way.
Nobody will notice. Nobody will differentiate. Nobody will care.
The Nightly Show is explicitly about race and racial issues. (I think the working title was The Minority Report.) The Daily Show with Trevor Noah isn’t going to be about race any more than it is now. And as for his accent, remember that the audience is really liberal. If any of us have a problem with it, we’re certainly not going to complain about it.
Yeah, Americans can’t recognize any class difference based on those two accents.
Seriously. Absent the most Cockney accent imaginable, or the chavviest chav you can get–and maybe not even then–American audiences are not gonna distinguish one British accent from another.
Wait, that’s South African? Are you sure it’s not Australian?
You get the point.
Although now that I type that, I’m realizing that he builds a lot of his standup around accents, especially American accents: New York black accent, LA Latino accent, Midwest white accent, etc. He’s quite good at it. I’d be surprised if he lets his true accent get in his way.
As I said when it was just a rumor: I look forward to learning more about his persona, but like the choice overall…
Just want to remind people what I meant when I said I’ve been touting him, and why.
2013
2014
That’s why I really, really like this choice.
I doubt that more than 25% of Americans (perhaps a slightly higher proportion of TDS viewers) would even recognize Noah’s accent as South African. “Say, are you Australian?”
We’ll see. I wish him goodluck but I don’t think it’ll work. Actually, here in Canada the broadcast network that carried TDS & CR dropped Colbert- it was only on Comedy network. Wonder if they’ll keep Daily Show without Jon Stewart. Is it still going to be called The Daily Show for sure?
Eta: Do Americans not hear any difference in the accents or you just don’t get that one is more uller crusty?
I’m English and grew up around ANZACs and people with upper crust accents, so it’s not a problem for me. The point is just that Americans are awful at distinguishing Commonwealth accents generally.