Trevor Noah on Leaving ‘Daily Show’ and Launching Spotify Interview Podcast: ‘I’m Not Going to Create an Echo Chamber’
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital Editor Trevor Noah is entering his next act as a podcast host. The former host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” launches his deep-dive interview show, a Spotify original podcast, next week.
In each episode of the new podcast, Noah will have an extended discussion with a single guest. For now, he’s keeping mum on who will be joining him on “What Now?” but said the guests run the gamut from the famous to the obscure. “We are very lucky,” he said in an interview with Variety. “We have a mix of massive stars as guests, and some people who nobody knows… Not everybody you speak to has to be a superstar.
Someone will be No. 1 at the box office, someone will be a scientist who will change how we live for the rest of our lives.” He added, “The main thing I can say to you: expect to be in some way, shape or form to be entertained and engaged.” Spotify’s “What Now?
With Trevor Noah” premieres next Thursday, Nov. 9, on multiple podcast platforms, with new episodes dropping weekly. The distribution strategy is a departure from Spotify’s previous practice of keeping its podcasts exclusively housed on its own streaming service.
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