Trevor Noah's Daily Show will take summer off, returning in fall with a "brand new look and feel"

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Noah, the last late-night host doing his show from home, will begin his three-month hiatus after Thursday's show. Comedy Central will unveil a “brand new look and feel” for The Daily Show on Sept. 13. The hiatus brings Noah in line with Jimmy Kimmel, who started going on a summer hiatus last year. Noah previously only took a few weeks off in summer. The move comes after Noah told Arsenio Hall recently that "I have a few surprises" for what he'd like The Daily Show to look like after the pandemic. In a Los Angeles Times profile published today, Noah reflected on how the pandemic has changed him. “I’ve spent over a decade working nonstop,” says Noah. “And I mean nonstop. Which is a badge of honor in America. In many other parts of the world, people would say, ‘You have a problem.’ I’ve missed weddings. I’ve missed birthdays. I’ve missed funerals. Then something like this happens and you go, ‘Man. I’ve missed a lot of life.’ And so when you look back on those things, I can tell you I have no memory of me going, ‘Ah, man, I can’t wait to get back to the red carpet.’ No. I can’t wait to getting back to sitting in a living room with my best friends. I can’t wait to get back to having a barbecue in the park. I can’t wait to get back to celebrating a friend who’s had a baby or celebrating a milestone in my siblings’ lives. Those are the things that I’ve fallen into the trap of taking for granted, because you felt like those things were always promised and always going to happen, and I felt like a career was something that had to be now and had to be all the time. Yet, ironically, who would have thought: A pandemic would hit the world, the world would shut down and the one thing that wouldn’t stop would be work.”