The Daily Show Has Co-Hosts & Introduces Troy Iwata – Deadline

The Daily Show is presently going by a lineup of visitor hosts because it continues to seek for a everlasting one.

Last evening, the Comedy Central present debuted a brand new twist – two hosts behind the desk.

Correspondents Michael Kosta, who has been internet hosting this week, the present’s first week again because the writers strike, and Ronny Chieng joined forces on Thursday evening’s present.

It marked the primary time that the present had two hosts behind the desk, a method that has been proposed as a brand new format going ahead.

Last 12 months, Deadline revealed that The Daily Show was contemplating internet hosting duos and trios to exchange Trevor Noah with correspondents together with Desi Lydic as a possible contender.

Chieng, who has starred in films together with M3gan and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, mentioned, “Tonight, you’re getting two hosts for the price of one.”

“Are they cutting our pay checks in half?,” requested Kosta. “No, they’re just not paying you,” joked Chieng.

It was an instance of the pair’s chemistry, and it labored properly, including a recent, new twist to late-night that has been, on the entire, hosted by solo, and largely, white males for a while.

Who is Troy Iwata?

Elsewhere, there was a brand new face on the present.

Troy Iwata made his debut in a phase about ebook banning. Iwata, enjoying a Senior Book Fair Expert, joked that books like James and the Giant Peach needs to be banned as a result of “James crawls right up inside that peach”.

It’s not fully clear what Iwata’s function on the present is however it was a stable introduction.

Iwata has starred in sequence resembling Apple’s WeCrashed, alongside Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway, and Netflix’s Dash & Lily and has additionally featured in reveals resembling NBC’s New Amsterdam and The CW’s Katy Keene.

Up subsequent week is Desus Nice making his return to late-night after the top of his Showtime sequence Desus & Mero. Other visitor hosts embrace Charlamagne tha God, whose personal Comedy Central sequence was lately canceled and Michelle Wolf in addition to the return of Leslie Jones and Sarah Silverman.

Comedy Central and its final boss Chris McCarthy have been determining who will land the everlasting function since Noah left final 12 months.

The shortlist is assumed to incorporate Chelsea Handler and Leslie Jones, whereas Deadline and different trades have beforehand reported that Hasan Minhaj was within the working for the function earlier than that New Yorker article scuppered his possibilities. That’s not information, no matter different publications let you know.

Jen Flanz serves as showrunner, author and exec producer of The Daily Show with Ramin Hedayati, Justin Melkmann and Zhubin Parang as co-exec producers. Dan Amira is head author.