In his first expansive interview since surprising fans (and his entire staff) during a taping, the host reveals what led to the move, why he kept the news secret and why now is the time to go: “I’d rather people be sad than be happy, like, “Good riddance, that d-ck is out of the building.”
If you listen closely to the telecast that aired a few hours later, you can hear audible gasps from the studio audience and thecrew.
“Part of the reason I did it that way is because I didn’t want anybody to be the person who then tells somebody else, who then tells somebody else, who then tells somebody else,” Noah says when we meet at a restaurant near theoffices the following month. “And this is where we create the thing. [The show] is where we’re together, our space, and so for me, it felt like the most natural way to tell everybody at the same time.
In the few hours between the taping and air, the staff was assembled. “It was exactly what you think it would be: quick and very quiet,” says Flanz, who started atwhen Craig Kilborn was the host. “Trevor apologized to everybody, and then, since I was there for the transition from Craig to Jon [Stewart] and Jon to Trevor, I felt pretty confident saying, ‘We’re so lucky that we had Trevor for seven years, but this place is an institution.’ ” There wasn’t much more to say at that point.
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