Trevor Noah of the ‘The Daily Show’ is hosting this year’s Grammy Awards.
Noah occupies a somewhat singular place in pop culture, offering his biracial millennial take four nights a week on life in America during a time of racial reckoning and global pandemic. After all, Stewart was the beloved mastermind of the Comedy Central cult favorite and for many of his fans, Noah could never be up to the challenge.
On the face of it, Noah has little in common with Stewart, a native New Yorker who is 20 years his senior. Though his ratings are about half of what Stewart earned, with about 600,000 people a night tuning in, Noah has nevertheless built up some clout in the media world.