Trevor Noah: GOP Candidates Are ‘Great Gift’ to ‘Daily Show’

‘I support Donald Trump for going the opposite way because he’s good for us’

Trevor Noah on ‘Today’: GOP Candidates Are ‘Great Gift’ to ‘Daily Show’ (NewsBusters)

Appearing on Wednesday’s NBC Today, new Daily Show host Trevor Noah described his eagerness to mock the Republican 2016 field: “Yeah, a great gift, the campaign. Great gift, Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, these are all gifts, these are beautiful – I couldn't ask for more.”

Co-host Carson Daly had teed up Noah by remarking: “Plus, what a gift, he’s starting his job during a presidential year. So you’re going to have lots of great characters, obviously, in the running.” In August, the morning show lamented Jon Stewart not being around to mock the GOP debate.

Fellow co-host Savannah Guthrie wondered if Noah would continue to focus on “current events” on the late night show and asked: “...has there been a moment in any current news event where you’ve thought, ‘I wish the show was tonight, I wish I could really get a crack at that one’?” 

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