Hasan Minhaj front-runner to interchange Trevor Noah on ‘Day by day Present’: report

Hasan Minhaj could also be switching to the night time shift.

It’s rumored that the previous “Patriot Act” creator is without doubt one of the important candidates to host Comedy Central’s “The Day by day Present.”

Sources divulged to Variety just lately that the monthslong quest to discover a appropriate participant to interchange emcee Trevor Noah has nearly reached its finish.

The South African comic, 39, departed the late night time information present in December, and a revolving door of visitor hosts have since stuffed the coveted seat.

In keeping with three unnamed sources, Minhaj, 37, “is just not assured to win the place,” as a “deal is just not believed to have been finalized” but.

However he “has emerged as a probable successor” to Noah.

Minhaj was a correspondent on the present from 2014 to 2018, showing a handful of occasions, and was applauded when he guest-hosted the present for every week in March.

He additionally holds the vital distinction of being the final “Day by day Present” participant employed by longtime host Jon Stewart, who left the present in 2015.

He even divulged his curiosity of internet hosting the comedy program this previous Could, telling Variety’s “Awards Circuit” podcast: “I’m positively open to the dialog. It’s additionally a household dialog now. It’s a really totally different dialog than after I first received employed on the present after I was 29.”

“My life is in a really totally different place. And in order that’s an even bigger life/household convo. It adjustments a variety of issues,” he famous.

The “Morning Present” actor added that helming the present is “an all-encompassing, all consuming factor. And different individuals should reside with the results of what I say. And I simply wish to be sure everyone, if that have been to ever come to fruition, ‘Hey, are all of us on board with this?’”

The Publish has reached out Minhaj for remark.

Selection additionally reported that the present’s producers hope to decide by Could 2024 — simply in time for the annual Upfronts.

Each spring, the tv trade’s largest networks collect to current their fall TV present lineups in hopes of securing industrial promoting for his or her sequence.

However the present actors and writers strikes could delay these plans.

A slew of hosts have saved Noah’s seat heat since his exit, together with Wanda Sykes, Marlon Wayans, Sarah Silverman, Kal Penn, and Leslie Jones.

“Saturday Evening Stay” alum Jones, 55, expressed her need to run the desk at “The Day by day Present” earlier this yr.

She revealed to People in April: “[The host] positively must be a black lady.”

“It might be nice to have a black lady on late night time. It’s time. I believe individuals are prepared for that. Now, I’m not s–tting on white girls or no matter. I’m simply saying,” she identified.