Roy Wood Jr. is considered as one of the potential hosts to replace Trevor Noah behind the desk at The Daily Show. Deadline has reported that he and other correspondents including Desi Lydic are in the running to host the Comedy Central show permanently following Noah’s exit last year.
Wood is now taking steps to figure out his late-night future, which may or may not include that plum job, including parking his own podcast Roy’s Job Fair, which comes from Comedy Central and iHeart. “This will be the last episode release of Roy’s Job Fair for a little while, while I figure out what the fuck to do in the world of late night,” he said on the podcast. “This is not an easy decision to come to.
I went back and forth [asking] ‘I don’t know do you pull a Trevor Noah and say what you’re gonna do beforehand, or do you just do it on the last episode and I figured we’d do it on the last episode’,” he added.
He said that he didn’t want to find himself in a situation where’s burnt out. Wood also addressed his future at The Daily Show as well as the wider late-night television industry. “My future at The Daily Show is not promised, in terms of hosting.
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