Fans of “The Daily Show” throughout the world were saddened to learn that the show’s host, Trevor Noah, will shortly be departing the program.
Since Noah’s announcement a week ago, fans have been eager to learn what’s next on the agenda for their favorite comic.
In a recent broadcast of the late-night talk show, a member of the audience raised his hand to ask Noah the million-dollar question, to which he responded frankly and truthfully.
Noah stated that during his seven years on “The Daily Show,” he felt like he had been on “four different ‘Daily Shows’” due to the way world events had transpired.
“I do not consider the last seven years to be a single time span. There was the beginning of ‘The Daily Show,’ which was taking over from Jon Stewart, which was incredibly challenging.
“I will always be grateful for that time period because of the chance it afforded me, the quantity of learning I was able to acquire, and the talents I had to hone and develop. Consequently, I find this period to be very different.
“The Trump years that subsequently followed. As I assumed control, I thought, “This is so bizarre, who are these people, and what is going on?” Then Trump came along, and I was like, “Oh, I know this,” so that era was distinct.
“And then Covid hits, and we’re all shut in our flats or homes, and that felt like a new era, and then we had the ‘coming out of Covid,’ which felt like a different era.
“I feel like I’ve been on four separate ‘Daily Shows’ and now we’re back to this point,” he said.
But Noah missed being a part of people’s lives, and now that the world has returned to a sense of “normalcy,” he wants to make the most of his remaining time.
“I missed humans. I missed two years of the lives of others. I missed two years of South African cuisine. I was unable to travel with my family and friends for two years. You are aware that there is one thing you can never get back in life, and that is time. You can never recover it.
“People often say, ‘Oh, time is money,’ but it’s not true; time is time. That is the entirety of time. You cannot obtain more of it, nor can you manipulate it. Nobody has discovered how to do it.
“What I lost most during those seven years was time, not to ‘The Daily Show’ but to world events.” As a result, I am now looking forward to resuming some of the activities I really enjoyed while traveling the globe.
He expressed a desire to be able to travel freely over the world to do stand-up comedy and learn new languages.
“These are the things I’ve missed since my recent trip to India, where I liked learning how to speak Hindi and want to return to try to learn more.
“After the pandemic, like everyone else, I began asking myself, ‘Okay, what am I trying to do more of? What is my orientation? What am I attempting to encounter?
It does not imply that I am ungrateful for anything, but time is something we have, if we are fortunate enough to have it, and it is the time to act. And if you have the ability and the wealth to do so, why not?
“Therefore, I look forward to living a bit more, expressing myself a bit more, maturing a bit more, and experiencing new things,” he said.
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