Roy Wood Jr. Mouthed 4 Telling Words To ‘The Daily Show’ After Its Emmy Win

Trevor Noah (center) and the cast and crew of "The Daily Show With Trevor Noah" accept the Outstanding Variety Series award Monday at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards.
Trevor Noah (heart) and the solid and crew of “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” settle for the Outstanding Variety Series award Monday on the seventy fifth Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Roy Wood Jr. discovered the proper alternative to name out “The Daily Show.”

The comedy present gained Outstanding Variety Talk Series on the seventy fifth Emmy Awards on Monday evening. As the present’s correspondents gathered on the stage for former host Trevor Noah to present an acceptance speech, viewers seen Wood was mouthing a stern message within the background to the present:

“Please hire a host,” Wood gave the impression to be saying.

Wood later confirmed that he was certainly mouthing these phrases.

“chill fam I was trying to do that in the low 😂😂,” Wood wrote whereas re-tweeting a video of him slamming his former employers.

Noah left as host of “The Daily Show” in December 2022 however the present nonetheless hasn’t named a everlasting host. Instead, Comedy Central has opted for a conveyor belt of visitor hosts, starting from well-known comedians, equivalent to Leslie Jones and Sarah Silverman, to the present’s correspondents, together with Dulcé Sloan, Desi Lydic and Wood.

In October 2023, Wood introduced he was leaving “The Daily Show” as a result of he wasn’t supplied the internet hosting gig after being a preferred correspondent for almost a decade.

Wood has acknowledged that there isn’t any dangerous blood between him and “The Daily Show” and that he simply wanted to maneuver on together with his profession.

While talking to Sherri Shepherd in October, Wood in contrast his departure from the present to a breakup with a romantic companion.

“It was like, ‘Hey, do you want to get married?’ And then Comedy Central was like, ‘Well, we’re going to date around.’ All right, well, then you go ahead and date around. And I’m going to be over here getting myself together for whoever wants to be with me when the time comes.”

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