Megyn Kelly slammed Trevor Noah on Tuesday during an episode of her podcast, “The Megyn Kelly Show,” when the television host announced she was withdrawing from “The Daily Show” after seven years. She suggested that it was not Noah’s choice to leave, but rather that he was forced by Comedy Central due to low ratings.
“He was a ratings killer. That’s true,” Kelly said.
She claimed that Noah was “not a prominent political commentator” like Stephen Colbert, who took over as host of CBS’s “Late Show” from David Letterman in 2015.
She continued: “That show went on top of the toilet with Trevor Noah. It wasn’t funny. No one ever laughed.”
The podcast host began playing a montage of Noah’s apparent “disappointment.” In the first clip, Noah commented on the coronavirus lockdown restrictions on church gatherings, saying “[keeping] The thought of priests outside the congregation may not be the worst.” In the second clip, “The Daily Show” host denounced the Catholic Church, calling it a “club rife with open prayer.” The podcaster also played a clip mocking the comedian that Trump gave the nation “judicial herpes” with his Supreme Court appointments.
Noah announced on Thursday that he was leaving the long-running show.
Noah told his studio audience, “It’s been absolutely amazing, it’s something I never expected and I found myself thinking the whole time, whatever we’ve been through… and I realized That after seven years my time is up.”
Noah became the host of “The Daily Show” in 2015, succeeding Jon Stewart, who took over from Craig Kilborn in 1999, and was at the anchor desk for 16 years.
