Last October, Roy Wood Jr. surprisingly announced he was leaving The Daily Show after eight years. The main reason it was a surprise was that the Comedy Central series was still looking for a permanent host to replace Trevor Noah and no decision had been made at that point,

Roy Wood Jr. told Gayle King that one of the reasons he left his role as a "Daily Show" correspondent 10 months after Trevor Noah's departure was because he was worried that whoever the next host ended up being "might not want me.