While Jon Stewart made the most impact of The Daily Show on Canada, Trevor Noah and his version of the program did talk about Canada a few times. Noah's last show as host airs tonight so we thought to look back.
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The Daily Show will have a new host and possibly a format change on January 17, 2023. Let's go back and check out the Canada highlights on the Trevor Noah, who has been the host since 2015, version of the program.
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The show had some quality coverage of the Syrian refugees coming to Canada. The idea of having a Canadian discuss a Canadian film on U.S. television was marvelous: that moment was wasted on an absolutely terrible film that had little to do with Rob Ford, despite the hype.
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Samantha Bee and John Oliver were in many ways the true heirs to what Jon Stewart was doing. The idea of doing this montage for Samantha Bee was put on hold, figuring someone would have picked up her show. That was a bit naive on our part. 7 years was a really good run for a show killed for arbitrary reasons. Discovery has a lot of terrible moves in the takeover of Warner Brothers.
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Canada is technically international from the United States, though sometimes Canada is treating as the domestic market (think cars and motion pictures). Trevor Noah didn't grow up in the United States so there was hope that he would approach Canada differently. The best work from this edition of the program came when refugees were involved: Syrians to Canada and refugees within the United States heading to Canada.
Good luck to the show and its new host. Thanks to Trevor Noah and the rest of the people for giving us your take on Canada.
The Daily Show runs on Comedy Central in the United States and CTV Comedy Channel in Canada.
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