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    Trevor Noah

    Seriously funny
    by Eliana Dockterman Mar 04, 2017 3 minutes

    Trevor Noah wasn’t supposed to be here. Before the 33-year-old South African comedian took over hosting The Daily Show in 2015, the list of obvious successors to Jon Stewart included alumni of the show Samantha Bee, Stephen Colbert and John Oliver as well as Saturday Night Live veterans Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Chris Rock. “It was ridiculous. There was no way I expected to get it,” Noah recalls, sitting in an office above The Daily Show’s studio, now his studio, on the edge of midtown Manhattan.

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