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If Roy Wooden Jr. and Desi Lydic know who’s taking up for Trevor Noah as host of “The Day by day Present,” they aren’t sharing.
“Is it you, is it you?” the pair jokingly requested one another when the topic got here up of their interview with CNN.
Whereas they’re properly conscious that it’s the query of the second, they’re selecting to deal with the work at hand.
And there’s loads of it. The present just lately made a cease in Atlanta, the place the midterms have been on loads of individuals’s minds.
For Wooden, “The Day by day Present” – with its mixture of comedy and present occasions – is a gig that enables him to mix his passions.
“You realize, my father was a civil rights journalist and tackled quite a lot of the identical points, however with out punch traces,” he advised CNN. “To have the ability to have a job I really like as a result of it’s my journalism diploma and my love for standup rolled into one burrito.”
Each Wooden and Lydic are having fun with their time on the present
For Lydic, a spotlight is doing her section “Foxsplains,” which spoofs proper wing media protection.
“We began discovering that generally we might say one thing so absurd after which we might hear the identical factor mirrored again on some proper wing media station and we’re like ‘Oh no,’” Lydic mentioned.
Having the ability to discover humor in troublesome tales – from politics to race and the pandemic – is a part of the magic of “The Day by day Present,” Wooden mentioned.
“I believe that there’s sure matters the place individuals want time to heal,” he mentioned. “Trevor’s additionally had a very good finger on the heart beat of when it’s time to joke and when it’s time to be poignant.”
Lydic agrees and mentioned, “It looks like now greater than ever, individuals have the insatiable must giggle.”
“And I believe on the present it looks like, over the previous couple of years, we’ve given ourselves permission to not make a joke when it doesn’t really feel proper to make a joke about one thing,” she mentioned. “And Trevor is extraordinarily considerate about that and keen to have a dialog about reacting to one thing that occurred with out feeling the strain to have an enormous punchline.”
Noah was equally considerate, it appears, about his choice to go away.
“What’s been dope is that Trevor made the announcement after which there was per week of ‘What?!’ after which it was proper again to work,” Wooden mentioned. “Trigger there’s nonetheless a midterm available. There’s nonetheless an election that’s gonna be arising. So within the meantime, I’m simply gonna deal with attempting to make a very good present as a result of if we’re not cautious, you could possibly lose sight of what it’s worthwhile to be engaged on each day.”
“The Day by day Present” airs at 11 p.m. ET weeknights on Comedy Central.