Trevor Noah Reveals Why Jon Stewart Left The Daily Show

During a panel about The Daily Show, current host Trevor Noah explained why his predecessor, Jon Stewart, left the show in 2015.

He said: “I walked into his office and I said, ’Hey, what’s going on? Are you being pushed out? What’s happening? You need my help, let me know, man. We’ll fight.’ He said ‘I’m leaving because I’m tired.’ And he said, ‘I’m tired of being angry.’ And he said, ’I’m angry all the time. I don’t find any of this funny. I do not know how to make it funny right now, and I don’t think the host of the show, I don’t think the show deserves a host who does not feel that it is funny.”

He added that Stewart told him to “relish the fact that you can make jokes about these things, because there will come a day when you are too angry to laugh. But don’t rush to get there.”

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