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• ROY WOOD JR. ON TREVOR NOAH’S EX AND WHY HE ‘CAN’T SAY NO’ TO HOSTG ‘THE DAILY SHOW’THE LAST LAUGHCOMEDY CENTRALTHE LONGTIME “DAILY SHOW” RRPONNT SHAR HIS NDID THOUGHTS ABOUT SPECULATN THAT HE ULD REPLACE TREVOR NOAH AND ADMS HE WAS GENUELY SURPRISED BY THE NEWS.MATT WILSTESENR EDORUPDATED OCT. 18, 2022 9:49AM EDT / PUBLISHED OCT. 18, 2022 4:43AM EDT WHEN TREVOR NOAH ANNOUNCED HE WOULD BE STEPPG DOWN AS HOST OF THE DAILY SHOW, HE CED A NVERSATN WH EDIAN ROY WOOD JR. AS PART OF WHAT MA HIM CI WAS TIME TO MOVE ON.IN HIS RETURN TO THE LAST LGH PODST, THE LONGTIME DAILY SHOW RRPONNT, WHO STARTED THE SAME DAY AS NOAH, TALKS ABOUT THIS HUGE MOMENT OF TRANSN FOR THE SHOW AND ADDRS THE SPECULATN THAT HE IS ON THE SHORT LIST TO TAKE OVER AS HOST. WOOD ALSO OPENS UP ABOUT HOW JERROD CARMICHAEL’S ROTHANIEL SPECIAL L A FIRE UNR HIM TO PUT OUT HIS OWN EPLY PERSONAL HOUR OF STAND-UP AND PREVIEWS HOW HE MIGHT VER HERSCHEL WALKER WHEN THE DAILY SHOW TRAVELS TO ATLANTA FOR THE MIDTERMS. “IT’S BEEN A LTLE CRAZY,” WOOD SAYS OF THE PAST FEW WEEKS. “AND YOU KNOW WHAT’S WEIRD? PEOPLE DON’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY TO ME. IT’S LIKE, ‘HOW YOU BEEN? ARE YOU OK? ARE YOU SAD? ARE YOU SRED? ARE YOU GONNA HOST? WHAT’S GOG ON, MAN?’”AND WHILE NOAH’S CISN MAY HAVE BEEN FLUENCED BY THAT NVERSATN WH WOOD, THE EDIAN NFIRMS THAT HE WAS JT AS SURPRISED AS EVERYONE ELSE. “I FOUND OUT WHEN Y’ALL FOUND OUT,” HE SAYS. WOOD WASN’T AT THE TAPG THAT DAY BEE HE WAS ATTENDG THE NEWS AND DOCUMENTARY EMMY AWARDS CEREMONY WHERE HE WAS NOMATED FOR THE NTRAL GROUND, A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE CONFERACY THAT HE -PRODUCED FOR PBS. WHEN HE WENT UPSTAIRS TO E THE RTROOM AND THE NEWS POPPED UP ON HIS PHONE, HE JOK “THE STEAM WAS STILL G OFF OF THE ARTICLE, H OUT THE OVEN, AND I’M LIKE, WHAT THE FUCK IS GOG ON?!”“SO I FD OUT TREVOR IS LEAVG,” HE SAYS. “TEN MUT LATER, I FD OUT I DON’T W AN EMMY AND THEN I’M JT STG.” SCE NO ONE ELSE THE ROOM HAD CELL SERVICE, WOOD SAYS, “I AM THE ONLY PERSON WHO KNOWS THE ASTEROID IS G.”NOAH MA HIS ANNOUNCEMENT ON THURSDAY, SEPT. 29, AND THE FOLLOWG WEEK WOOD JOKGLY NONTED HIM ABOUT ON THE SHOW, SAYG, “YOU DIDN’T HAVE TO DRAG MY NAME TO ! NOW EVERYBODY ON MY TWTER’S YELLG AT ME, THKG THAT ’S MY FLT THAT YOU CID TO LEAVE THE SHOW.” THE B WAS ALL GOOD FUN, BUT WOOD ADMS TO ME THAT “THERE WAS A LTLE B OF TTH .”HE ADDS, “I WAS JOKG, BUT WAS KD OF TE THAT PEOPLE ON TWTER WERE PLAYFULLY BLAMG ME FOR TREVOR STEPPG DOWN. SO I WAS LIKE, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS.” ADVERTISEMENT IN OUR NVERSATN ABOUT A WEEK LATER, WOOD IS NOT ONLY UNUALLY NDID ABOUT WHAT HE WOULD DO IF OFFERED THE VETED GIG, BUT ALSO HAS SOME BIG IAS ABOUT WHAT THE FUTURE SHOULD HOLD FOR LATE-NIGHT POLIL EDY AS A WHOLE.“WHATEVER THE NEXT SHOWS ARE WH THE WORLD OF POLIL SATIRE, ACROSS WHATEVER WORKS, WE’VE GOT TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO BE A BRIDGE. WE’VE GOT TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO E HUMOR AS A BRIDGE,” HE TELLS ME. THAT ULD MEAN MAKG THE SHOW MORE “CENTRIST” OR VG ON GUTS WHO HAVE DIAMETRILLY OPPOSED POLIL VIEWS OM THE HOST. “BUT THEN YOU TRY THAT AND YOU BOOK KANYE AND YOU HAVE TO NOT RELEASE THE EPISO BEE HE WAS WILDG,” WOOD JOK, ALLUDG TO A RECENT EPISO OF LEBRON JAM’ THE SHOP THAT WAS PULLED FOLLOWG KANYE WT’S ANTISEMIC REMARKS.WHEN TO POLIL SATIRE ON LATE-NIGHT TV, WOOD ASKS, “HOW MUCH OF THIS IS ACTUAL DISURSE AND LEGIMATE NVERSATN, AND HOW MUCH OF THIS IS RROSIVE AND STCTIVE TO THE STABILY OF OUR MOCRACY? AND IF ’S STCTIVE TO THE STABILY OF OUR MOCRACY, WHATEVER JOKE YOU HAVE, A’T WORTH .”“LET’S NOT FET, ALL OF THE SHOWS ARE JT TRYG TO MAKE PEOPLE LGH,” HE ADDS, “BUT YOU STILL HAVE TO EXPOSE THE BULLSH.”BELOW IS AN EDED EXCERPT OM OUR NVERSATN. YOU N LISTEN TO THE WHOLE THG BY SUBSCRIBG TO THE LAST LGH ON APPLE PODSTS, SPOTIFY, GOOGLE, STCHER, AMAZON MIC, OR WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODSTS, AND BE THE FIRST TO HEAR NEW EPISOS WHEN THEY ARE RELEASED EVERY TUDAY.WHAT WAS THAT REAL NVERSATN THAT YOU AND TREVOR HAD ABOUT THE DAILY SHOW’S SEVEN-YEAR ANNIVERSARY? ADVERTISEMENT IT WAS FUCKG THREE SENTENC! IT’S NOT LIKE I PULLED HIM TO THE SI AND SAID, “HEY, MAN, I JT WANT YOU TO KNOW THE JOURNEY HAS BEEN…” I LOOKED AT MY PHONE, SAID SEPTEMBER 28TH. “HEY MAN, ’S BEEN SEVEN YEARS, NGRATULATNS.” AND HE PSED FOR A SEND AND GO, “YEAH, HAS… ANYWAY, WHAT ELSE ARE WE TALKG ABOUT?” THEN WE WENT ON TO ANOTHER TOPIC. AND YOU KNOW, I’M NOT SHOCKED THAT HAPPENED, I THK ’S MORE OF THE WAY HE WENT ABOUT . BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, AS A EDIAN I PLETELY UNRSTAND . HE IS A TRAVELER. HE IS A PHILOSOPHER. ANY LATE-NIGHT CHAIR, FOR ANY SHOW, N BE A B OF A BOX IF YOU WANT TO GO AND DO THE OTHER THGS AND LEARN OTHER THGS AND DISVER OTHER THGS. AND THE DAILY SHOW, ’S NOT LIKE CONAN WHERE CONAN [O’BRIEN] ULD JT GO, “FUCK , I’M GOG TO GERMANY. HE EVENTUALLY GOT TO THAT POT LATER ON. I DON’T KNOW THAT WAS LIKE THAT FOR THE FIRST 20 YEARS.OF URSE NOT. BUT FOR TO REMA TERTG FOR CONAN, CREATIVELY, HE STARTED G UP WH DIFFERENT WAYS—AND ALSO BEE WORKS WERE RTRICTG AND HATG ON MY DOG—BUT WAS SOMETHG WHERE HE WAS ALLOWED TO EVOLVE. AND THE DAILY SHOW IS THE DAILY SHOW, THAT R IS THE R. THERE’S NOT REALLY MUCH THAT YOU N DO TO CHANGE THAT. IF YOU WANT TO DRIVE A TCK, I’M SORRY, THE DAILY SHOW IS A R. YOU N PUT A SPOILER ON , YOU N MAKE A NVERTIBLE, BUT YOU’RE NOT GOG TO BE ABLE TO PLETELY CHANGE THE CHASSIS AND THE FUNCTNALY OF THAT VEHICLE CREATIVELY TO THE GREE THAT I THK TREVOR NEED. AND SO, YOU KNOW, I THK THAT WAS PROBABLY THE RIGHT THG FOR HIM TO DO, BEE OTHERWISE YOU’RE JT STG AND YOU’RE BORED AND THEN YOU LOOK LIKE ONE OF THEM ANIMALS THE ZOO THAT SHOULDN’T BE LOCKED UP LIKE THAT.SO YOU UNRSTAND WHERE HE WAS G OM?A LN TIM. ADVERTISEMENT BUT PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT YOU WERE ACTUALLY PISSED AT HIM. PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT THERE WAS ACTUALLY SOME BEEF?I THK THAT AS A RRPONNT ’S STILL YOUR JOB TO KD OF MIRROR A LTLE B OF WHAT SOCIETY IS FEELG.YOU’RE THE VOICE OF THE DIENCE.AND THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WERE MAD, AND THAT WASN’T A JOKE FOR THEM, SO IF I ULD EMBODY THAT A LTLE B, EVEN IF ’S PLAYFULLY, EVEN IF I HAVE TO PULL DUA LIPA TO … “AND THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WERE MAD, AND THAT WASN’T A JOKE FOR THEM, SO IF I ULD EMBODY THAT A LTLE B, EVEN IF ’S PLAYFULLY, EVEN IF I HAVE TO PULL DUA LIPA TO …” YEAH, I LOVE THAT YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE TO BRG THAT UP. ADVERTISEMENT SHOUT OUT TO “DUA LUPA,” WHO IS NOT A REAL ARTIST. SO, YEAH, THAT DAY WAS MYSELF AND THE WRERS JT GOG, “WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT’S THE ZEGEIST, WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT LAST WEEK.” AND ’S THE PERFECT PLACE TO MENTN AND BE PLAYFUL ABOUT , AND THEN GET BACK ON WH THE SHOW. BEE I THK WHAT WHAT I DON’T WANT PEOPLE TO LOSE SIGHT OF THE MIDST OF TREVOR’S CISN IS THAT THERE’S STILL A FUCKG MIDTERM ELECTN G UP, MAN. THERE’S STILL A LOT OF SER ISSU THAT ARE DIVIDG THE UNTRY THAT NEED TO BE ROLVED, AND THAT WE NEED TO BRG ATTENTN TO. SO YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS I’M NCERNED ’S TIME TO GET BACK TO WORK. HE STEPPED DOWN, WE MA OUR JOK, ’S TIME TO CLOCK . WE’RE STILL GOG TO ATLANTA FOR MIDTERMS. AND WE’RE GOG TO FOC ON A LOT OF ISSU THAT ARE GOG ON THERE GEIA, RRPONNTS ARE ALREADY GETTG THEIR ASSIGNMENTS. IT’S STILL FULL STEAM AHEAD ON MAKG A TELEVISN SHOW. THE R IS THE R. WE’LL FIGURE OUT WHO THE NEXT DRIVER IS GOG TO BE, BUT THE R IS THE R AND ’S STILL RACG DOWN THE ROAD. SO THAT’S WHAT WE’RE GOG TO TURN OUR FOC BACK TO FOR NOW.SO TREVOR IS GOG TO STAY THROUGH THE MIDTERMS, HIS LAST SHOW IS DECEMBER 8TH, AND THEN COMEDY CENTRAL NFIRMED THAT THE SHOW IS G BACK JANUARY. VERY QUICK TURNAROUND THERE. WHEN SOMETHG LIKE THIS HAPPENS, THERE’S SO MUCH SPECULATN ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, WHO’S GOG TO HOST? YOUR NAME IS GETTG THROWN AROUND A LOT AS A POSSIBLE SUCCSOR. IS THAT SOMETHG THAT YOU WOULD EVEN WANT?I THK IF YOU’RE ASKED, YOU HAVE TO AT LEAST NSIR . YOU N’T SAY NO TO AN OPPORTUNY LIKE THAT. YOU N’T TURN YOUR NOSE UP AT AT LEAST. I THK YOU HAVE TO S AND ASSS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO CREATIVELY, AND THAT’S SOMETHG I HAVEN’T THOUGHT ABOUT YET. HOW WOULD I SIGN THE R? WOULD I PUT A ONT WG ON ? WOULD I PUT SOME FAST AND FUR NEON LIGHTS ON? WOULD I TT THE WDOWS? AND THEN FIGURG OUT, CREATIVELY, IF THAT MAK SENSE. BEE I THK BEYOND THE DAILY SHOW, THERE’S A BIGGER DISCSN TO BE HAD ABOUT WHAT THE FUCK THE NEXT ERATN OF LATE-NIGHT IS GOG TO BE. I THK THIS IS BIGGER THAN TREVOR NOAH. I THK THAT WE ARE AT A CREATIVE MOLTG AS AN DTRY. WHATEVER CBS CIS TO DO WH JAM CORN’S SLOT, I IMAGE, WILL NOT BE A ONE-TO-ONE TO WHAT JAM CORN DID, THAT ’S GOG TO BE SOMETHG TOTALLY DIFFERENT. I HOPE THAT SHOWTIME, WH THE PARTURE OF D AND MERO, FD SOMETHG ELSE TO PUT TO THAT SLOT. I KNOW THEY STILL HAVE ZIWE, WHO IS DOG SOMETHG PLETELY DIFFERENT. SAM JAY, STYLISTILLY, IS PLETELY DIFFERENT. AND LOW-KEY, I FEEL LIKE SHOWS LIKE THAT, THOSE ARE THE SHOWS THAT WERE KD OF THE PRECURSOR OF THE CREATIVE MOLTG THAT IS STARTG TO HAPPEN NOW. AMBER RUFF, I WOULD THROW THAT HAT AS WELL. SO YOU KNOW, ’LL BE TERTG TO SEE, BUT TO HAVE YOUR NAME THE HAT IS AN HONOR. SO I’M NOT GOG TO S HERE AND ACT LIKE THAT’S NOT A OL THG TO HAVE SOMEONE EVEN NSIR THAT I ULD DO . BUT HOW WOULD I DO ? I HAVEN’T THOUGHT ABOUT THAT. CREATIVELY, I HAVE NO IA WHAT COMEDY CENTRAL IS GOG TO DO. MY JOB, THE MEANTIME, IS TO JT BE A GOOD-ASS RRPONNT.WELL, ONE THG THEY’VE DONE THIS TIME IS REALLY PUT OUT THERE THAT ALL OF THE RRPONNTS ARE BEG NSIRED, MAYBE BEE OF WHAT HAPPENED LAST TIME WHEN JON [STEWART] LEFT. JOHN OLIVER HAD BEEN FILLG AS HOST AND END UP GETTG KD OF POACHED BY HBO. I’VE TALKED TO SAMANTHA BEE AND HASAN MHAJ, WHO BOTH TOLD ME THAT THEY WERE NEVER NSIRED, THEY WEREN’T THE NNG, NOBODY TALKED TO THEM ABOUT POSSIBLY TAKG OVER. SO DO FEEL A LTLE DIFFERENT THIS TIME. DO THAT SURPRISE YOU, HOW WAS HANDLED LAST TIME VERS WHAT WE’RE SEEG NOW? ADVERTISEMENT I WASN’T THERE. I DIDN’T E UNTIL TREVOR, SO I ULDN’T EVEN GIVE YOU THE TEMPERATURE THE BUILDG THOSE DAYS AND WHAT THOSE RELATNSHIPS WERE LIKE. RIGHT NOW, JORDAN KLEPPER STANDS AS THE ONLY ON-AIR TALENT WHO SERVED UNR BOTH REGIM. BUT FOR ME, I DON’T THK THEY’VE ASKED ANYBODY FORMALLY. “HEY, ROY, ARE YOU READY?” THAT NVERSATN HASN’T BEEN HAD. I KNOW WHAT Y’ALL READ. I GO TO THE BUILDG AND I JT DO MY JOB AS A RRPONNT. MY BIG QUTN RIGHT NOW IS, WHAT’S GOG TO HAPPEN WH THE UPLE OF FIELD PIEC THAT I SHOT A MONTH OR TWO AGO THAT A’T AIRED YET. “BUT FOR ME, I DON’T THK THEY’VE ASKED ANYBODY FORMALLY. “HEY, ROY, ARE YOU READY?” THAT NVERSATN HASN’T BEEN HAD.” YOU’VE GOT TO GET THOSE UP!YEAH. BUT YOU KNOW, TERMS OF THEM NSIRG THE RRPONNTS, I THK THAT’S A BETIFUL THG, BEE ALL OF THE RRPONNTS—MYSELF, KLEPPER, [MICHAEL] KOSTA, RONNY [CHIENG], DI [LYDIC], DULCé [SLOAN]—WE ALREADY HAVE A PRE-STALLED RELATNSHIP WH THE DIENCE. AND LATE-NIGHT IS A RELATNSHIP. AND HAVG THE RRPONNTS BE A PART OF THE NVERSATN, I THK ALSO HELPS TO REASSURE THE VIEWERS. JON TO TREVOR WAS FELY A LOT MORE TUMULTUO OF AN EXCHANGE, OF A TRANSFER OF POWER, BEE PEOPLE WEREN’T PLETELY FAIAR WH TREVOR.AND JON WAS SUCH A POWERFUL FORCE ON TELEVISN.THE ONLY THG I N TRY TO PARE TO WAS AARON RODGERS, WHEN HE ME AFTER BRETT FAVRE. WHEN TREVOR TOOK OVER THE QUTN WAS, “WHO IS TREVOR NOAH?” THE ONLY QUTN THAT WILL BE ASKED NOW, I BELIEVE, THE TRANSFER OM TREVOR TO THE NEXT PERSON IS, “CAN THIS PERSON DO THE JOB?” BEE THERE WILL BE SOME GREE OF FAIARY, IF WE’RE TALKG ABOUT OM THE POOL OF RRPONNTS. ADVERTISEMENT UNLS THEY GO TOTALLY ROGUE AND HIRE SOMEONE WE’VE NEVER HEARD OF.IF THEY GO TOTALLY ROGUE AND ’S SOMEONE THAT'S A PLETE OUTSIR, THAT’S A HUGE BET ON THE PARAMOUNT SI. I THK, REGARDLS, HAS TO BE A NAME SOMEONE KNOWS, THAT WE’RE FAIAR WH, IF I’M NNG THE WORK. ROY WOOD JR. ON THE DAILY SHOWCOMEDY CENTRAL YOU WOULD THK.BUT I ALSO HAVE NEVER N A FUCKG WORK BEFORE. SO TO S AND SPECULATE, FOR ME THE BIGGT QUTN IS, IF I’M THERE AND I’M NOT THE HOST, THEN WHAT DO THE ROLE OF RRPONNT EVOLVE TO, OR CHANGE TO, BASED ON THE NEXT CREATIVE ERATN PER THE CREATIVE DIRECTN THAT THE HOST SETS FORWARD? SO I’M THKG MORE ABOUT THAT, IF I’M BEG HONT WH YOU, BRO. I’M THKG A LOT MORE ABOUT, OK, WHAT DO MY JOB CHANGE TO?YEAH, I MEAN, I WAS THKG ABOUT HOW YOU ME , STARTED THE SAME DAY AS TREVOR. SO WOULD BE WEIRD TO STAY ON WH THE NEW HOST? ADVERTISEMENT IT WOULD PEND ON THE HOST. IT WOULD PEND ON THE CREATIVE DIRECTN OF THE SHOW. WHAT ARE YOU TRYG TO DO? HOW DO I F TO THAT? AND DO THAT CREATIVE DIRECTN F MY EDIC SKILL SETS AND GIVE ME AN OPPORTUNY TO SHOW WHO I AM? BEE I THK THE THG THAT I’VE ALWAYS BEEN APPRECIATIVE OF THE SEVEN YEARS THAT I’VE BEEN ON THE DAILY SHOW IS THAT I’VE BEEN ABLE TO DO SEGMENTS AND PIEC THAT MATCH WH MY REAL-LIFE IOLOGI AND MY REAL-LIFE CURSI. I’VE NEVER BEEN TOLD NO WHEN WAS A WEIRD THG THAT YOU MIGHT NOT THK HAS HUMOR. SO I WOULD WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER I’M DOG ON TELEVISN—AND THIS IS DAILY SHOW AND BEYOND—I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT 'S SOMETHG THAT EQUAT TO THE THGS I FD FUNNY, AND THE THGS THAT I’M CUR ABOUT.LISTEN TO THE EPISO NOW AND SUBSCRIBE TO ‘THE LAST LGH’ ON APPLE PODSTS, SPOTIFY, GOOGLE, STCHER, AMAZON MIC, OR WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODSTS, AND BE THE FIRST TO HEAR NEW EPISOS WHEN THEY ARE RELEASED EVERY TUDAY. MATT WILSTE

ROY WOOD JR. ON TREVOR NOAH’S EX AND WHY HE ‘CAN’T SAY NO’ TO HOSTG ‘THE DAILY SHOW’THE LAST LAUGHCOMEDY CENTRALTHE LONGTIME “DAILY SHOW” RRPONNT SHAR HIS NDID THOUGHTS ABOUT SPECULATN THAT HE ULD REPLACE TREVOR NOAH AND ADMS HE WAS GENUELY SURPRISED BY THE NEWS.MATT WILSTESENR EDORUPDATED OCT. 18, 2022 9:49AM EDT / PUBLISHED OCT. 18, 2022 4:43AM EDT WHEN TREVOR NOAH ANNOUNCED HE WOULD BE STEPPG DOWN AS HOST OF THE DAILY SHOW, HE CED A NVERSATN WH EDIAN ROY WOOD JR. AS PART OF WHAT MA HIM CI WAS TIME TO MOVE ON.IN HIS RETURN TO THE LAST LGH PODST, THE LONGTIME DAILY SHOW RRPONNT, WHO STARTED THE SAME DAY AS NOAH, TALKS ABOUT THIS HUGE MOMENT OF TRANSN FOR THE SHOW AND ADDRS THE SPECULATN THAT HE IS ON THE SHORT LIST TO TAKE OVER AS HOST. WOOD ALSO OPENS UP ABOUT HOW JERROD CARMICHAEL’S ROTHANIEL SPECIAL L A FIRE UNR HIM TO PUT OUT HIS OWN EPLY PERSONAL HOUR OF STAND-UP AND PREVIEWS HOW HE MIGHT VER HERSCHEL WALKER WHEN THE DAILY SHOW TRAVELS TO ATLANTA FOR THE MIDTERMS. “IT’S BEEN A LTLE CRAZY,” WOOD SAYS OF THE PAST FEW WEEKS. “AND YOU KNOW WHAT’S WEIRD? PEOPLE DON’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY TO ME. IT’S LIKE, ‘HOW YOU BEEN? ARE YOU OK? ARE YOU SAD? ARE YOU SRED? ARE YOU GONNA HOST? WHAT’S GOG ON, MAN?’”AND WHILE NOAH’S CISN MAY HAVE BEEN FLUENCED BY THAT NVERSATN WH WOOD, THE EDIAN NFIRMS THAT HE WAS JT AS SURPRISED AS EVERYONE ELSE. “I FOUND OUT WHEN Y’ALL FOUND OUT,” HE SAYS. WOOD WASN’T AT THE TAPG THAT DAY BEE HE WAS ATTENDG THE NEWS AND DOCUMENTARY EMMY AWARDS CEREMONY WHERE HE WAS NOMATED FOR THE NTRAL GROUND, A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE CONFERACY THAT HE -PRODUCED FOR PBS. WHEN HE WENT UPSTAIRS TO E THE RTROOM AND THE NEWS POPPED UP ON HIS PHONE, HE JOK “THE STEAM WAS STILL G OFF OF THE ARTICLE, H OUT THE OVEN, AND I’M LIKE, WHAT THE FUCK IS GOG ON?!”“SO I FD OUT TREVOR IS LEAVG,” HE SAYS. “TEN MUT LATER, I FD OUT I DON’T W AN EMMY AND THEN I’M JT STG.” SCE NO ONE ELSE THE ROOM HAD CELL SERVICE, WOOD SAYS, “I AM THE ONLY PERSON WHO KNOWS THE ASTEROID IS G.”NOAH MA HIS ANNOUNCEMENT ON THURSDAY, SEPT. 29, AND THE FOLLOWG WEEK WOOD JOKGLY NONTED HIM ABOUT ON THE SHOW, SAYG, “YOU DIDN’T HAVE TO DRAG MY NAME TO ! NOW EVERYBODY ON MY TWTER’S YELLG AT ME, THKG THAT ’S MY FLT THAT YOU CID TO LEAVE THE SHOW.” THE B WAS ALL GOOD FUN, BUT WOOD ADMS TO ME THAT “THERE WAS A LTLE B OF TTH .”HE ADDS, “I WAS JOKG, BUT WAS KD OF TE THAT PEOPLE ON TWTER WERE PLAYFULLY BLAMG ME FOR TREVOR STEPPG DOWN. SO I WAS LIKE, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS.” ADVERTISEMENT IN OUR NVERSATN ABOUT A WEEK LATER, WOOD IS NOT ONLY UNUALLY NDID ABOUT WHAT HE WOULD DO IF OFFERED THE VETED GIG, BUT ALSO HAS SOME BIG IAS ABOUT WHAT THE FUTURE SHOULD HOLD FOR LATE-NIGHT POLIL EDY AS A WHOLE.“WHATEVER THE NEXT SHOWS ARE WH THE WORLD OF POLIL SATIRE, ACROSS WHATEVER WORKS, WE’VE GOT TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO BE A BRIDGE. WE’VE GOT TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO E HUMOR AS A BRIDGE,” HE TELLS ME. THAT ULD MEAN MAKG THE SHOW MORE “CENTRIST” OR VG ON GUTS WHO HAVE DIAMETRILLY OPPOSED POLIL VIEWS OM THE HOST. “BUT THEN YOU TRY THAT AND YOU BOOK KANYE AND YOU HAVE TO NOT RELEASE THE EPISO BEE HE WAS WILDG,” WOOD JOK, ALLUDG TO A RECENT EPISO OF LEBRON JAM’ THE SHOP THAT WAS PULLED FOLLOWG KANYE WT’S ANTISEMIC REMARKS.WHEN TO POLIL SATIRE ON LATE-NIGHT TV, WOOD ASKS, “HOW MUCH OF THIS IS ACTUAL DISURSE AND LEGIMATE NVERSATN, AND HOW MUCH OF THIS IS RROSIVE AND STCTIVE TO THE STABILY OF OUR MOCRACY? AND IF ’S STCTIVE TO THE STABILY OF OUR MOCRACY, WHATEVER JOKE YOU HAVE, A’T WORTH .”“LET’S NOT FET, ALL OF THE SHOWS ARE JT TRYG TO MAKE PEOPLE LGH,” HE ADDS, “BUT YOU STILL HAVE TO EXPOSE THE BULLSH.”BELOW IS AN EDED EXCERPT OM OUR NVERSATN. YOU N LISTEN TO THE WHOLE THG BY SUBSCRIBG TO THE LAST LGH ON APPLE PODSTS, SPOTIFY, GOOGLE, STCHER, AMAZON MIC, OR WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODSTS, AND BE THE FIRST TO HEAR NEW EPISOS WHEN THEY ARE RELEASED EVERY TUDAY.WHAT WAS THAT REAL NVERSATN THAT YOU AND TREVOR HAD ABOUT THE DAILY SHOW’S SEVEN-YEAR ANNIVERSARY? ADVERTISEMENT IT WAS FUCKG THREE SENTENC! IT’S NOT LIKE I PULLED HIM TO THE SI AND SAID, “HEY, MAN, I JT WANT YOU TO KNOW THE JOURNEY HAS BEEN…” I LOOKED AT MY PHONE, SAID SEPTEMBER 28TH. “HEY MAN, ’S BEEN SEVEN YEARS, NGRATULATNS.” AND HE PSED FOR A SEND AND GO, “YEAH, HAS… ANYWAY, WHAT ELSE ARE WE TALKG ABOUT?” THEN WE WENT ON TO ANOTHER TOPIC. AND YOU KNOW, I’M NOT SHOCKED THAT HAPPENED, I THK ’S MORE OF THE WAY HE WENT ABOUT . BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, AS A EDIAN I PLETELY UNRSTAND . HE IS A TRAVELER. HE IS A PHILOSOPHER. ANY LATE-NIGHT CHAIR, FOR ANY SHOW, N BE A B OF A BOX IF YOU WANT TO GO AND DO THE OTHER THGS AND LEARN OTHER THGS AND DISVER OTHER THGS. AND THE DAILY SHOW, ’S NOT LIKE CONAN WHERE CONAN [O’BRIEN] ULD JT GO, “FUCK , I’M GOG TO GERMANY. HE EVENTUALLY GOT TO THAT POT LATER ON. I DON’T KNOW THAT WAS LIKE THAT FOR THE FIRST 20 YEARS.OF URSE NOT. BUT FOR TO REMA TERTG FOR CONAN, CREATIVELY, HE STARTED G UP WH DIFFERENT WAYS—AND ALSO BEE WORKS WERE RTRICTG AND HATG ON MY DOG—BUT WAS SOMETHG WHERE HE WAS ALLOWED TO EVOLVE. AND THE DAILY SHOW IS THE DAILY SHOW, THAT R IS THE R. THERE’S NOT REALLY MUCH THAT YOU N DO TO CHANGE THAT. IF YOU WANT TO DRIVE A TCK, I’M SORRY, THE DAILY SHOW IS A R. YOU N PUT A SPOILER ON , YOU N MAKE A NVERTIBLE, BUT YOU’RE NOT GOG TO BE ABLE TO PLETELY CHANGE THE CHASSIS AND THE FUNCTNALY OF THAT VEHICLE CREATIVELY TO THE GREE THAT I THK TREVOR NEED. AND SO, YOU KNOW, I THK THAT WAS PROBABLY THE RIGHT THG FOR HIM TO DO, BEE OTHERWISE YOU’RE JT STG AND YOU’RE BORED AND THEN YOU LOOK LIKE ONE OF THEM ANIMALS THE ZOO THAT SHOULDN’T BE LOCKED UP LIKE THAT.SO YOU UNRSTAND WHERE HE WAS G OM?A LN TIM. ADVERTISEMENT BUT PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT YOU WERE ACTUALLY PISSED AT HIM. PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT THERE WAS ACTUALLY SOME BEEF?I THK THAT AS A RRPONNT ’S STILL YOUR JOB TO KD OF MIRROR A LTLE B OF WHAT SOCIETY IS FEELG.YOU’RE THE VOICE OF THE DIENCE.AND THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WERE MAD, AND THAT WASN’T A JOKE FOR THEM, SO IF I ULD EMBODY THAT A LTLE B, EVEN IF ’S PLAYFULLY, EVEN IF I HAVE TO PULL DUA LIPA TO … “AND THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WERE MAD, AND THAT WASN’T A JOKE FOR THEM, SO IF I ULD EMBODY THAT A LTLE B, EVEN IF ’S PLAYFULLY, EVEN IF I HAVE TO PULL DUA LIPA TO …” YEAH, I LOVE THAT YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE TO BRG THAT UP. ADVERTISEMENT SHOUT OUT TO “DUA LUPA,” WHO IS NOT A REAL ARTIST. SO, YEAH, THAT DAY WAS MYSELF AND THE WRERS JT GOG, “WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT’S THE ZEGEIST, WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT LAST WEEK.” AND ’S THE PERFECT PLACE TO MENTN AND BE PLAYFUL ABOUT , AND THEN GET BACK ON WH THE SHOW. BEE I THK WHAT WHAT I DON’T WANT PEOPLE TO LOSE SIGHT OF THE MIDST OF TREVOR’S CISN IS THAT THERE’S STILL A FUCKG MIDTERM ELECTN G UP, MAN. THERE’S STILL A LOT OF SER ISSU THAT ARE DIVIDG THE UNTRY THAT NEED TO BE ROLVED, AND THAT WE NEED TO BRG ATTENTN TO. SO YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS I’M NCERNED ’S TIME TO GET BACK TO WORK. HE STEPPED DOWN, WE MA OUR JOK, ’S TIME TO CLOCK . WE’RE STILL GOG TO ATLANTA FOR MIDTERMS. AND WE’RE GOG TO FOC ON A LOT OF ISSU THAT ARE GOG ON THERE GEIA, RRPONNTS ARE ALREADY GETTG THEIR ASSIGNMENTS. IT’S STILL FULL STEAM AHEAD ON MAKG A TELEVISN SHOW. THE R IS THE R. WE’LL FIGURE OUT WHO THE NEXT DRIVER IS GOG TO BE, BUT THE R IS THE R AND ’S STILL RACG DOWN THE ROAD. SO THAT’S WHAT WE’RE GOG TO TURN OUR FOC BACK TO FOR NOW.SO TREVOR IS GOG TO STAY THROUGH THE MIDTERMS, HIS LAST SHOW IS DECEMBER 8TH, AND THEN COMEDY CENTRAL NFIRMED THAT THE SHOW IS G BACK JANUARY. VERY QUICK TURNAROUND THERE. WHEN SOMETHG LIKE THIS HAPPENS, THERE’S SO MUCH SPECULATN ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, WHO’S GOG TO HOST? YOUR NAME IS GETTG THROWN AROUND A LOT AS A POSSIBLE SUCCSOR. IS THAT SOMETHG THAT YOU WOULD EVEN WANT?I THK IF YOU’RE ASKED, YOU HAVE TO AT LEAST NSIR . YOU N’T SAY NO TO AN OPPORTUNY LIKE THAT. YOU N’T TURN YOUR NOSE UP AT AT LEAST. I THK YOU HAVE TO S AND ASSS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO CREATIVELY, AND THAT’S SOMETHG I HAVEN’T THOUGHT ABOUT YET. HOW WOULD I SIGN THE R? WOULD I PUT A ONT WG ON ? WOULD I PUT SOME FAST AND FUR NEON LIGHTS ON? WOULD I TT THE WDOWS? AND THEN FIGURG OUT, CREATIVELY, IF THAT MAK SENSE. BEE I THK BEYOND THE DAILY SHOW, THERE’S A BIGGER DISCSN TO BE HAD ABOUT WHAT THE FUCK THE NEXT ERATN OF LATE-NIGHT IS GOG TO BE. I THK THIS IS BIGGER THAN TREVOR NOAH. I THK THAT WE ARE AT A CREATIVE MOLTG AS AN DTRY. WHATEVER CBS CIS TO DO WH JAM CORN’S SLOT, I IMAGE, WILL NOT BE A ONE-TO-ONE TO WHAT JAM CORN DID, THAT ’S GOG TO BE SOMETHG TOTALLY DIFFERENT. I HOPE THAT SHOWTIME, WH THE PARTURE OF D AND MERO, FD SOMETHG ELSE TO PUT TO THAT SLOT. I KNOW THEY STILL HAVE ZIWE, WHO IS DOG SOMETHG PLETELY DIFFERENT. SAM JAY, STYLISTILLY, IS PLETELY DIFFERENT. AND LOW-KEY, I FEEL LIKE SHOWS LIKE THAT, THOSE ARE THE SHOWS THAT WERE KD OF THE PRECURSOR OF THE CREATIVE MOLTG THAT IS STARTG TO HAPPEN NOW. AMBER RUFF, I WOULD THROW THAT HAT AS WELL. SO YOU KNOW, ’LL BE TERTG TO SEE, BUT TO HAVE YOUR NAME THE HAT IS AN HONOR. SO I’M NOT GOG TO S HERE AND ACT LIKE THAT’S NOT A OL THG TO HAVE SOMEONE EVEN NSIR THAT I ULD DO . BUT HOW WOULD I DO ? I HAVEN’T THOUGHT ABOUT THAT. CREATIVELY, I HAVE NO IA WHAT COMEDY CENTRAL IS GOG TO DO. MY JOB, THE MEANTIME, IS TO JT BE A GOOD-ASS RRPONNT.WELL, ONE THG THEY’VE DONE THIS TIME IS REALLY PUT OUT THERE THAT ALL OF THE RRPONNTS ARE BEG NSIRED, MAYBE BEE OF WHAT HAPPENED LAST TIME WHEN JON [STEWART] LEFT. JOHN OLIVER HAD BEEN FILLG AS HOST AND END UP GETTG KD OF POACHED BY HBO. I’VE TALKED TO SAMANTHA BEE AND HASAN MHAJ, WHO BOTH TOLD ME THAT THEY WERE NEVER NSIRED, THEY WEREN’T THE NNG, NOBODY TALKED TO THEM ABOUT POSSIBLY TAKG OVER. SO DO FEEL A LTLE DIFFERENT THIS TIME. DO THAT SURPRISE YOU, HOW WAS HANDLED LAST TIME VERS WHAT WE’RE SEEG NOW? ADVERTISEMENT I WASN’T THERE. I DIDN’T E UNTIL TREVOR, SO I ULDN’T EVEN GIVE YOU THE TEMPERATURE THE BUILDG THOSE DAYS AND WHAT THOSE RELATNSHIPS WERE LIKE. RIGHT NOW, JORDAN KLEPPER STANDS AS THE ONLY ON-AIR TALENT WHO SERVED UNR BOTH REGIM. BUT FOR ME, I DON’T THK THEY’VE ASKED ANYBODY FORMALLY. “HEY, ROY, ARE YOU READY?” THAT NVERSATN HASN’T BEEN HAD. I KNOW WHAT Y’ALL READ. I GO TO THE BUILDG AND I JT DO MY JOB AS A RRPONNT. MY BIG QUTN RIGHT NOW IS, WHAT’S GOG TO HAPPEN WH THE UPLE OF FIELD PIEC THAT I SHOT A MONTH OR TWO AGO THAT A’T AIRED YET. “BUT FOR ME, I DON’T THK THEY’VE ASKED ANYBODY FORMALLY. “HEY, ROY, ARE YOU READY?” THAT NVERSATN HASN’T BEEN HAD.” YOU’VE GOT TO GET THOSE UP!YEAH. BUT YOU KNOW, TERMS OF THEM NSIRG THE RRPONNTS, I THK THAT’S A BETIFUL THG, BEE ALL OF THE RRPONNTS—MYSELF, KLEPPER, [MICHAEL] KOSTA, RONNY [CHIENG], DI [LYDIC], DULCé [SLOAN]—WE ALREADY HAVE A PRE-STALLED RELATNSHIP WH THE DIENCE. AND LATE-NIGHT IS A RELATNSHIP. AND HAVG THE RRPONNTS BE A PART OF THE NVERSATN, I THK ALSO HELPS TO REASSURE THE VIEWERS. JON TO TREVOR WAS FELY A LOT MORE TUMULTUO OF AN EXCHANGE, OF A TRANSFER OF POWER, BEE PEOPLE WEREN’T PLETELY FAIAR WH TREVOR.AND JON WAS SUCH A POWERFUL FORCE ON TELEVISN.THE ONLY THG I N TRY TO PARE TO WAS AARON RODGERS, WHEN HE ME AFTER BRETT FAVRE. WHEN TREVOR TOOK OVER THE QUTN WAS, “WHO IS TREVOR NOAH?” THE ONLY QUTN THAT WILL BE ASKED NOW, I BELIEVE, THE TRANSFER OM TREVOR TO THE NEXT PERSON IS, “CAN THIS PERSON DO THE JOB?” BEE THERE WILL BE SOME GREE OF FAIARY, IF WE’RE TALKG ABOUT OM THE POOL OF RRPONNTS. ADVERTISEMENT UNLS THEY GO TOTALLY ROGUE AND HIRE SOMEONE WE’VE NEVER HEARD OF.IF THEY GO TOTALLY ROGUE AND ’S SOMEONE THAT'S A PLETE OUTSIR, THAT’S A HUGE BET ON THE PARAMOUNT SI. I THK, REGARDLS, HAS TO BE A NAME SOMEONE KNOWS, THAT WE’RE FAIAR WH, IF I’M NNG THE WORK. ROY WOOD JR. ON THE DAILY SHOWCOMEDY CENTRAL YOU WOULD THK.BUT I ALSO HAVE NEVER N A FUCKG WORK BEFORE. SO TO S AND SPECULATE, FOR ME THE BIGGT QUTN IS, IF I’M THERE AND I’M NOT THE HOST, THEN WHAT DO THE ROLE OF RRPONNT EVOLVE TO, OR CHANGE TO, BASED ON THE NEXT CREATIVE ERATN PER THE CREATIVE DIRECTN THAT THE HOST SETS FORWARD? SO I’M THKG MORE ABOUT THAT, IF I’M BEG HONT WH YOU, BRO. I’M THKG A LOT MORE ABOUT, OK, WHAT DO MY JOB CHANGE TO?YEAH, I MEAN, I WAS THKG ABOUT HOW YOU ME , STARTED THE SAME DAY AS TREVOR. SO WOULD BE WEIRD TO STAY ON WH THE NEW HOST? ADVERTISEMENT IT WOULD PEND ON THE HOST. IT WOULD PEND ON THE CREATIVE DIRECTN OF THE SHOW. WHAT ARE YOU TRYG TO DO? HOW DO I F TO THAT? AND DO THAT CREATIVE DIRECTN F MY EDIC SKILL SETS AND GIVE ME AN OPPORTUNY TO SHOW WHO I AM? BEE I THK THE THG THAT I’VE ALWAYS BEEN APPRECIATIVE OF THE SEVEN YEARS THAT I’VE BEEN ON THE DAILY SHOW IS THAT I’VE BEEN ABLE TO DO SEGMENTS AND PIEC THAT MATCH WH MY REAL-LIFE IOLOGI AND MY REAL-LIFE CURSI. I’VE NEVER BEEN TOLD NO WHEN WAS A WEIRD THG THAT YOU MIGHT NOT THK HAS HUMOR. SO I WOULD WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER I’M DOG ON TELEVISN—AND THIS IS DAILY SHOW AND BEYOND—I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT 'S SOMETHG THAT EQUAT TO THE THGS I FD FUNNY, AND THE THGS THAT I’M CUR ABOUT.LISTEN TO THE EPISO NOW AND SUBSCRIBE TO ‘THE LAST LGH’ ON APPLE PODSTS, SPOTIFY, GOOGLE, STCHER, AMAZON MIC, OR WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODSTS, AND BE THE FIRST TO HEAR NEW EPISOS WHEN THEY ARE RELEASED EVERY TUDAY. MATT WILSTE

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