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Nightly Show Cancelled, Only a matter of time before The Daily Show is.


Gone Before the fall. Depend upon it.

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I don't think it will be gone, but the Trevor guy that can barely speak will probably be replaced with one of the correspondents.

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Noah will need to go, but I don't see a correspondent who could get this thing going again. Maybe Klepper. I think they need to bring in a big gun to stop the free fall.

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I think Trevor Noah will be replaced before they cancel The Daily Show. The Daily Show is their bread and butter and I think Jon Stewart is still a producer.

I'm hoping Jon Stewart will tire of retirement and want to come back and save his show from Noah.

I sure miss him during this election season. I understand his weariness but sure wish he had delayed his retirement until November.

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I think Jon Stewart is still a producer.

I'm hoping Jon Stewart will tire of retirement



I'm hoping Jon Stewart will tire of producer and keep his "influence" away from the show.

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No. It's an institution for Comedy Central at this point. A main hub around which they can and have built other programming. They'll keep it alive. However I'm predicting Trevor Noah will be replaced, and the show will be extended to a one hour format.

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No loss. He always was a bore.

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Daily Show isn't going anywhere, but I think Trevor's days are numbered. He is actually okay given the fact he has no experience, either hosting a show, or in life Sure Jon and Stephen preached, but they were old guys, and it wasn't quite so offensive coming from them. Now when Trevor, a guy barely out of short pants, preaches to me, it is somewhat offensive, as there is a little voice in my head saying "what the eff do you know, kid?"

Whoever at Comedy Central that is responsible for hiring hosts should be fired, as Trevor and Larry were two huge personnel misses that cost the network dearly. They may never regain their late night prominence.

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Larry I understand. He was probably the most senior member at The Daily Show that was willing to take the 11:30pm timeslot at the time and at the time Comedy Central probably thought a black voice would shake things up enough after Colbert's departure that Larry would end up having an easier time finding an audience than another middle aged white guy would. Trevor Noah...I just don't get it. He had, I think, all of two pieces on The Daily Show prior to being tapped to host the show, neither of which were particularly memorable appearances.

At the end of the day Larry Wilmore was a relatively logical choice all things considered...Trevor Noah was given the job because he was young, attractive, and would have minority appeal. Turns out being young and attractive doesn't get you anywhere if you also don't have a well defined point of view or style.

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I can't watch Noah. He's terrible.

The Daily Show completely lost it's relevance when Stewart left. Noah was a horrible choice as Jon's replacement.

They won't cancel the show. They will fire and replace Noah.

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I hope you are right.

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That's a big statement. I don't like the show but are the ratings that bad?

What's missing in movies is same as in society: a good sense of work ethic and living up to ideals.

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He's pulling in half of the audience Jon Stewart did. So that's not great. More worrisome from a network perspective, I'd imagine, is that the ratings have been in a steady decline since March. They even fell during the month of July (convention month). I don't see Trevor sticking around past the election, but I'm not sure who they could get to replace him. I wonder if Steve Carell is tired of doing movies...

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He's pulling in half of the audience Jon Stewart did. So that's not great. More worrisome from a network perspective, I'd imagine, is that the ratings have been in a steady decline since March. They even fell during the month of July (convention month).


You're almost right, but Trevor's audience has been between 713,000 (Jul 2016) and 844,000 (Dec 2015) on every month, and viewers this month so far (788,000) are actually higher than his viewers on Oct and Nov of last year.

If you compare for example June viewers (2015 -> 2016), then Trevor has about 64 % of Jon's viewers. In July, it was a little less.

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The correlation between people who hate black TV hosts and people who hate women busting ghosts is STAGGERING.

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