The quick listing of potential successors to Trevor Noah’s throne has narrowed by one.
Puck News reviews that embattled frontrunner has been knowledgeable by Every day Present dad or mum Paramount International that he’s not getting the coveted internet hosting gig. The information comes roughly one month after the previous Patriot Act headliner discovered himself on the middle of controversy after a damning New Yorker exposé revealed that he had embellished elements of his standup act.
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In response to Puck’s , Minhaj’s deal to take the Every day Present reins was all however accomplished earlier than the New Yorker story hit on Sept. 15. In actual fact, “Minhaj would have been introduced as the brand new TDS host this summer season had the strike not intervened,” Belloni, maintains, including, “As an alternative, each side sat on the announcement, after which… catastrophe.”
Minhaj — who was a correspondent on The Every day Present from 2014-2018, earlier than leaving to headline Netflix’s Patriot Act — allegedly requested a last-ditch assembly with Paramount boss Chris McCarthy to “plead his case” earlier than he acquired official notification on on Thursday that he was now not within the working.
Relating to the embellishment uproar, Minhaj argued within the New Yorker piece, “Each story in my model is constructed round a seed of fact. My comedy Arnold Palmer is 70% emotional fact — this occurred — after which 30% hyperbole, exaggeration, fiction.”
The Every day Present has been relying on guest hosts to fill the void left by Noah final December. Comedy Central not too long ago introduced that it’ll identify a full-time replacement sometime next year. The community’s search was sophisticated in latest weeks by longtime correspondent Roy Wood Jr.’s decision to leave after eight years.
Wooden, who had emerged as the brand new Every day Present host frontrunner following the Minhaj scandal, stated he would nonetheless think about the gig if it have been provided to him.
“When you’re provided the prospect to host The Every day Present at any level in your life… you must cease for a second and think about that,” he informed NPR. “The following query turns into, ‘What does The Every day Present appear like in 2024? And what does late night time appear like in 2024?’”
TVLine has reached out to reps for Minhaj and The Every day Present for remark.
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