Megyn Kelly thinks Comedy Central’s “The Day by day Present” has nowhere to go however up now that “rankings killer” Trevor Noah will surrender internet hosting duties after seven seasons.
“He’s going away and so they’re going to discover a substitute and he’s form of making it sound prefer it was his alternative, that he realized some issues through the pandemic,” Kelly stated through the Tuesday episode of her podcast, “The Megyn Kelly Present.”
However Kelly instructed that the present’s rankings compelled Comedy Central to push Noah out.
“He was a rankings killer,” she stated of Noah. “That’s the reality.”
“That present went down into the bathroom with Trevor Noah on the helm. It wasn’t humorous. No one ever laughed.”
Kelly stated Noah “wasn’t the lead political commentator” like Stephen Colbert, one other former Comedy Central star who went on to succeed David Letterman as host of CBS’s “The Late Present.”
The previous Fox Information primetime star, who's a lifelong Catholic, then performed a montage of Noah’s “unfunnyness.” The clip confirmed “The Day by day Present” host denouncing the scandal-tarred Catholic Church as a “molesting membership with a gap prayer.”
Kelly additionally performed a clip by which Noah commented on coronavirus lockdown measures that restricted church gatherings, quipping how “retaining the monks separate from the congregation may not be the worst thought.”
The podcaster additionally confirmed a clip of Noah denouncing President Donald Trump for giving the nation “judicial herpes” along with his Supreme Court docket appointments.
The Submit has sought remark from Noah’s representatives.
Noah, the 38-year-old South Africa-born stand-up comedian, introduced on Thursday that he would finish his reign as host of the long-running present.
“It’s been completely wonderful, it’s one thing that I by no means anticipated and I discovered myself considering all through the time, the whole lot we’ve gone via … and I noticed after seven years, my time is up,” Noah informed a shocked studio viewers.
He acknowledged the tumultuous period by which he steered the present, which spanned the whole thing of the Trump presidency in addition to the coronavirus pandemic.
“I’ve liked making an attempt to determine find out how to make folks snigger even when the tales are notably sh—y on the worst days,” Noah stated.
“We’ve laughed collectively, we’ve cried collectively.”
In 2015, Noah, who joined the present a 12 months earlier as a correspondent, was elevated to switch Jon Stewart.
On the peak of its recognition, the Stewart-hosted present averaged some 2.5 million nightly viewers.
With Noah on the helm, nonetheless, viewership for “The Day by day Present” shrank to between 400,000 and 800,000 nightly viewers.
“We're grateful to Trevor for our wonderful partnership over the previous seven years,” a Comedy Central spokesperson stated in an announcement to The Submit.
“With no timetable for his departure, we’re working collectively on subsequent steps. As we glance forward, we’re excited for the subsequent chapter within the 25+ 12 months historical past of ‘The Day by day Present’ because it continues to redefine tradition via sharp and hilarious social commentary, serving to audiences make sense of the world round them.”
Extra reporting by Michael Starr
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