{"id":6749,"date":"2015-03-30T19:01:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T00:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=6749"},"modified":"2015-09-08T23:25:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T04:25:16","slug":"im-going-to-miss-jon-stewart-but-noah-is-looking-pretty-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/im-going-to-miss-jon-stewart-but-noah-is-looking-pretty-good\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m going to miss Jon Stewart but Noah is looking pretty good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know you&#8217;re going to miss this face as much as I am.<a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-30-at-6.08.42-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-30-at-6.08.42-PM-225x207.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Stewart\" width=\"225\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6750\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-30-at-6.08.42-PM-225x207.jpg 225w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-30-at-6.08.42-PM-300x276.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-30-at-6.08.42-PM.jpg 762w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But after watching this clip I&#8217;m looking forward to more of <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/trevornoah\">Trevor Noah<\/a>&#8216;s commentary on The Today Show. Not only does Noah come out of South Africa, the land where everyone rides lions and wears leopard skin suits. But he&#8217;s got a cool, straight man presence, very subtle and titillating. And Noah&#8217;s biracial \u2013 a heritage that was impossible during the days of apartheid, not so very long ago. So this should be a fun adventure. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AHO1a1kvZGo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/31\/arts\/television\/trevor-noah-to-succeed-jon-stewart-on-the-daily-show.html\">New York Times quotes Michele Ganeless<\/a>, Comedy Central president: \u201cWe talked to women. We talked to men. We found in Trevor the best person for the job,&#8221; and added, \u201cYou don\u2019t hope to find the next Jon Stewart \u2014 there is no next Jon Stewart. So, our goal was to find someone who brings something really exciting and new and different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Best of luck to you, Jon! However you reinvent yourself, I hope you enjoy it as much as America has enjoyed you as Today Show host these past 16 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know you&#8217;re going to miss this face as much as I am. But after watching this clip I&#8217;m looking forward to more of Trevor Noah&#8216;s commentary on The Today Show. Not only does Noah come out of South Africa, the land where everyone rides lions and wears leopard skin suits. But he&#8217;s got a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/im-going-to-miss-jon-stewart-but-noah-is-looking-pretty-good\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;m going to miss Jon Stewart but Noah is looking pretty good&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[1665,1811,1812,1809,1808,1810],"class_list":["post-6749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-art-culture","tag-comedy","tag-noah","tag-south-africa","tag-stewart","tag-today-show","tag-trevor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6749"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6757,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749\/revisions\/6757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}