Comedy Central(NEW YORK) — Trevor Noah will take over the The Daily Show late night chair in September, but he’s still figuring out how he’ll differentiate himself from his predecessor, Jon Stewart.
“I have a very vague picture of the show right now,” Noah tells GQ magazine. “It’ll be like a face-lift. Because, don’t get it twisted, I’m a big fan of The Daily Show, and that’s what it’s still gonna be. It’s still gonna be The Daily Show. It’s the same way, when [Jimmy] Fallon took over from [Jay] Leno, it’s still The Tonight Show.”
But of course, there will be changes, Noah concedes. He adds, “Just the mere fact that I’m gonna be there in the chair changes a whole bunch of the show, you know?”
Noah also says he understood why there was so much backlash when he was named the new host back in March.
“A guy doesn’t leave and another guy comes in and there’s no backlash. That never, ever happens. When Michael B. Jordan got cast as the new Human Torch in Fantastic Four, there was backlash, because they were like, ‘How can this fictional character be a black man?’ The new storm trooper from Star Wars, when he took his helmet off in the trailer, people lost their minds. ‘This is ridiculous. How can there be black people in space?’ I didn’t know what the backlash was gonna be, but I knew there was going to be backlash,” he says. “The same thing when Larry Wilmore took over from [Stephen] Colbert: ‘Oh, this is never gonna work. This is horrible. …people are afraid of change.'”
Stewart will say goodbye to The Daily Show August 6. Noah will take over The Daily Show on September 28.
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