Aged 31, the actor "stand-up", unknown in the US, will soon take the reins of this daily program combines political satire and sophomoric humor and that made many imitators on the globe, including "The Diary "on Canal +.
"No one can replace Jon Stewart. But, thanks to the fantastic team of Daily Show + +, we will continue to make the best of the shows," he launched at Twitter.
In mid-February, Jon Stewart, 52, announced his departure from the show-star of Comedy Central, after 16 years in castigate through policies and relentlessly mock the conservative Fox News.
"I am extremely happy for the issue and for Trevor. It is a fantastic comedian," assured Mr. Stewart said in a statement, which was recently launched in the cinema by producing the feature film "Rosewater" on incarceration of a journalist in Iran.
The exact date of the handover will be announced "later," said Comedy Central in a statement.
The appointment of Mr. Noah to succeed him as a surprise. The early thirties to the player face and slim figure has only a few appearances at the "Daily Show" as a contributor and is not a familiar figure of US television sets.
Himself has expressed his disbelief. "You do not believe in the first hours. You need a good shot but unfortunately you are just in a place where can not really have one," said he told the New York Times, from Dubai where he was performing.
According to Comedy Central, Mr. Noah, however, can claim the title of "Best Comedian" in Africa and has to his credit a few appearances in the most popular American talk shows (David Letterman, Jay Leno).
"Trevor Noah has a huge talent. He has an insightful and unique point of view and, above all, it's incredibly funny," assured the president of Comedy Central, Michele Ganeless, in the release.
Born in a black full-Apartheid South African mother and a Swiss father and white, this child of Soweto will anyway detonate in the American media landscape. "I have not had a normal life. I grew up in a country that was not normal," he noted in the New York Times.
His home continent was also at the heart of his first appearance in the "Daily Show" in early December, when he had cleverly played on stereotypes and representations of Africa in the United States.
"I never thought I would have more afraid of the police in the United States and South Africa. It almost drove me nostalgic for the good old days, the country," he shouted after death several young Black Americans killed by police.
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