# This is the Daily Show with.... Trevor Noah!? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 29, 2015, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930 "2015-09-29T07:15:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930/21 "2015-09-29T23:46:54Z")
Very funny. Not totally amazing, but nothing to worry about. It will still be good. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930/22 "2015-09-30T00:06:33Z")
Saw the whole episode now. It was really quite fun. Give him a little while. It might not be Jon Stewart, but it should be fine. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930/23 "2015-09-30T00:10:16Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > But they censored the joke about the Pope’s dick. How so? The Fiat=“undercompensating” joke? I honestly don’t remember what, if anything, was bleeped. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930/24 "2015-09-30T00:12:39Z")
I wasn’t impressed. But why should I be? No one was going to step in and completely revamp the format that Jon perfected, or do a better job than he did. Trevor will make the show his own over time. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930/25 "2015-09-30T00:15:48Z")
> [@bup](#): > > How so? The Fiat=“undercompensating” joke? I honestly don’t remember what, if anything, was bleeped. “I’m saying the Pope has a huge [del]cock[/del].” ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930/26 "2015-09-30T01:15:30Z")
He’s very charming. He seemed genuinely amused by himself and that kind of wide-eyed goofiness is kind of adorable, but a much different tone than Stewart’s exasperated cynicism. I will always love Jon most, but I think Trevor will be sufficient and I can go to Larry Wilmore and John Oliver for the anger that I need in comedians. Well, sometimes need, I should say. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930/27 "2015-09-30T01:39:58Z")
> [@bup](#): > > How so? The Fiat=“undercompensating” joke? I honestly don’t remember what, if anything, was bleeped. > [@Peremensoe](#): > > “I’m saying the Pope has a huge [del]cock[/del].” Specifically, they bleeped over the “cock” part. ---
**Author:** ![McDoogins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@McDoogins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McDoogins)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930/28 "2015-09-30T01:53:13Z")
Will miss Jon, but the new guy seems ok. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930/29 "2015-09-30T03:45:44Z")
Definitely better than Larry Wilmore’s first outing. (I’ve since warmed up a lot with _The Nightly Show_). It took until the John/Jon bit for me to get a full on laugh, but the rest was still enough to get a chuckle. It didn’t feel like I was having to “try” to like it. I also very much appreciated addressing all the elephants in the room, about all the people who turned it down and how he could not replace Stewart. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930/30 "2015-09-30T03:51:03Z")
I enjoyed it! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930/31 "2015-09-30T05:14:01Z")
For some reason I can’t get the videos to play on Comedy Central’s website, so I had to watch segments on YouTube. I thought the opening “Continuing The War On Bullshit” segment was terrific; I Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there’d quite a few times. The Kevin Hart interview was enjoyable enough; a little stilted maybe, but I figure hey, it’s his first interview so I can cut Mr. Noah a lot of slack. I liked that they talked about Mr. Hart’s running; it’s a pretty awesome thing that he’s been doing lately. After reading this thread, I am thankful that the Mars segment wasn’t posted to YouTube. > [@h.sapiens](#): > > I thought it was a strong beginning, on the whole. Noah is an appealing personality, he should only get better with time. I’d say that was a perfectly succinct description of the show and of Mr. Noah. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930/32 "2015-09-30T05:29:05Z")
I think I enjoyed all of it, except the interviews. Unfortunately the guest was a bit unlikable, and it has always been my least favorite thing in the show. I am quite impressed by the first show. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930/33 "2015-09-30T06:14:07Z")
Local boy done good. Worked for me. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930/34 "2015-09-30T06:54:45Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > For some reason I can’t get the videos to play on Comedy Central’s website, so I had to watch segments on YouTube. I have always watched on Hulu. The video player on the Comedy Central website(s) has always seemed kinda crappy to me. For a while, I would watch the full episodes of _Daily Show_ and _Colbert_ on Hulu but I would go to Comedy Central to watch the extended interviews or additional musical performances if there was something I was interested in. After a while, I stopped even that. It would take forever for me to watch the 8 minute extended interview because Comedy Central’s player could take forever to load to begin with then would repeated crap out while I was trying to watch. Any Comedy Central shows that are available on Hulu, I watch on Hulu. ---
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930/35 "2015-09-30T14:23:38Z")
I was worried, but thoroughly enjoyed the show(s) so far. Yeah, he is still a bit nervous and it does show. But come on… you don’t take over Jon Stewarts seat without nerves. I think before he takes his first break he will have found his stride and things will start clicking. Like Jon hated Fox… Noah needs to find what pisses him off and go for it. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930/36 "2015-09-30T14:52:10Z")
I caught the second show last night. I thought he did a good job. Don’t know if he really needs to shake up the format much to “make it his own”. ISTM the template suits him fine from what I saw though I guess it made it hard not to think of him as a guest host since I am so used to Stewart in that seat. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930/37 "2015-10-01T00:05:57Z")
Wow, it’s actually really good. I’m amazed by anyone who thinks, two shows in, that he is not doing really well. Room to improve, but very solid. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930/38 "2015-10-01T01:56:51Z")
I finally saw the first episode, I liked it a lot. Glad to see they kept everything exactly the same. It worked for Jon, it worked for John Oliver, keep with it until some organically develops. But Kevin Fucking Hart? Your first show, chance to make a statement with millions of extra people watching to check out what it is now and the best you can do is the Comedy Central version of somebody on the studio list of 5 guys in the neighborhood who can show up in 5 minutes to play drums on the shitty song you wrote on the cab ride over, just to have something on the B side. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930/39 "2015-10-01T13:32:24Z")
Two episodes in, all signs are promising. I loved his opening monologue in the first episode, I thought he had good chemistry with Jordan Klepper, and I love that he already has more voices than Jon (who only had New Jersey Guy, GWB and Mitch McConnell). So far I’ve been thoroughly disappointed with Willmore and Colbert-on-network, so this is a relief. But yeah, the first two guests have been pretty underwhelming. Apparently Hart is now reaching Eddie Murphy levels of crossover fame, but you’d think they could get someone bigger for the first episode. The Bumble CEO from last night was just sad (though she was pretty and charming). Maybe they didn’t want the first few guests drawing the spotlight away from Trevor. One thing that’s odd is the accent. As a Brit, it’s hugely noticeable that there are very few foreign accents on US TV outside sports broadcasting. Foreign actors, yes, but they’re nearly always playing Americans. That’s not a complaint, of course. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930/40 "2015-10-01T17:53:51Z")
Last night’s show (Wednesday) was horrible. More Trevor Noah, fewer correspondent segments. Not even the audience laughed a single time during the Jordan/New Guy segment on police bias. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/732930.md?page=3)