Jon Stewart vouches for incoming Daily Show host Trevor Noah
On Monday evening’s Daily Show, host Jon Stewart publicly put his full support behind Comedy Central’s decision to hire Trevor Noah as his successor. “I’m very excited about it,” Stewart said. He made no effort to ignore last week’s controversy, in which some of Noah’s years-old tweets were dug up and slammed as anti-Semitic and overly offensive. Comedy Central quickly came to the comedian’s aid — and Noah himself expressed disappointment that people were judging his character and views on a few misfired jokes that crossed the line or leaned on lazy stereotypes. But Stewart, the face of Comedy Central and The Daily Show for the past 17 years, offered the strongest defense yet.
Source:: The Verge
