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In an interview with Comedy Central's Nightly Show host Larry Wilmore on Friday's CBS This Morning, co-host Gayle King wondered if the controversy swirling around newly-named Daily Show host Trevor Noah was racially motivated: "So keep it a hundred about Trevor Noah....do you think this would have happened if he was white?...Because first he's, you know, 'Trevor Noah, Trevor Noah,' and then there's this controversy about his tweets."
Wilmore rejected the notion: "Gayle, let's be clear, the young Jon Stewart would have difficultly following the present-day Jon Stewart. Anybody would have had difficulty, you know? And of course people don't know who Trevor is. I haven't even met Trevor yet."