Leslie Jones & Sarah Silverman Get Another Shot At Guest Hosting ‘The Daily Show’
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The Daily Show is back with another group of guest hosts, some more familiar to the show than others.
Leslie Jones and Sarah Silverman are getting a second week behind the desk along with some other all-stars and show correspondents.
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Jones hosted during the first week of the Comedy Central show’s return after Trevor Noah’s exit in January and will get another shot. She is thought to have been one of the names on a Paramount shortlist to get the job permanently, although some sources have cautioned that she might not want the job full-time.
That shortlist is also believed to include Chelsea Handler, who has regularly lobbied for the job, most recently during a spot on The Tonight Show, and is widely liked within the company after her appearance in February, as well as Hasan Minhaj, who was understood to have been close to landing the job permanently before that New Yorker article came out.
Sarah Silverman also hosted in February and is back.
Others to get behind the desk include correspondent Michael Kosta, Desus & Mero’s Desus Nice, Charlamagne tha God, whose own Comedy Central series was recently canceled, Michelle Wolf and members of The Daily Show’s news team including Dulcé Sloan and Ronny Chieng.
Sources have told Deadline that Comedy Central wants to see all of the guest hosts behind the desk – some more than once – before officially announcing the permanent host, who will start in 2024.
Deadline revealed in October that the late-night show was considering hosting duos and trios, with the likes of Wood and Lydic being talked up as potential candidates, which is still understood to be a possibility.
Jen Flanz serves as showrunner, writer and exec producer of The Daily Show with Ramin Hedayati, Justin Melkmann and Zhubin Parang as co-exec producers. Dan Amira is head writer.
The Daily Show Guest Hosts
Week of Oct. 16th: Michael Kosta
Week of Oct. 23rd: Desus Nice
Week of Oct. 30th: Charlamagne tha God
Week of Nov. 6th: Sarah Silverman
Week of Nov. 13th: Leslie Jones
Week of Nov. 20th: The Daily Show News Team Takeover feat. Dulcé Sloan, Ronny Chieng
Week of Nov. 27th: Michelle Wolf
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