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The Wednesday edition of the CBS Evening News hyped Jon Stewart’s successor at The Daily Show with a glowing profile of Trevor Noah to end the show that had anchor Scott Pelley gushing in the lead-in to foreign correspondent Debora Patta’s report: “It's no supernova. It’s Trevor Noah.”
Teasing the segment earlier in the broadcast, Pelley invoked Noah from the Bible to declare that the man set to takeover for Stewart is “the Noah who is about to drop anchor on late night television.”