PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA TO APPEAR ON
"THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH"
ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 12 AT 11:00 P.M. ET/PT
Special Episode will be Simulcast across Comedy Central, MTV and BET
NEW YORK, December 8, 2016 - As this unprecedented election year comes to an end, President Barack Obama will appear as a guest on "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" on Monday, December 12 at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT. Noah's in-depth interview of President Obama will take place at The White House. President Obama's first appearance on "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" will be simulcast across Comedy Central, MTV and BET.
Throughout this remarkable election cycle Noah has interviewed notable political figures including former President Bill Clinton (September 15, 2016), who received the gift of a balloon drop courtesy of Noah (watch), as well as Republican presidential candidates Dr. Ben Carson (April 19, 2016), who entered into a debate with Noah's alter ego, Dr. Ken Carson (watch); Senator Lindsay Graham (March 23, 2016), who shot pool with Noah (watch); Senator Rand Paul (January 13, 2016), who debated Trevor over glasses of Kentucky bourbon (watch); and Governor Chris Christie (September 30, 2015), who appeared during Noah's first week as host (watch).
"The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" reaches a weekly, multiplatform audience of 8.6 million viewers across linear, VOD, digital and mobile and is currently pacing to record its highest-rated quarter ever among adults 18-49, up +15% in this key demographic versus the prior quarter. Since its premiere in 2015, "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" is the most-watched, ad-supported late-night talk show among millennial men (18-34, 18-24) and #2 among all millennials. In addition, multiplatform streams during the current quarter are up +180% versus year ago, driven by massive increases across Facebook (+361%) and YouTube (+163%).
Trevor Noah, Steve Bodow, Jen Flanz, Tim Greenberg, Jill Katz and Adam Lowitt are the Executive Producers of "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" with Ian Berger, Pam DePace, Ramin Hedayati, Justin Melkmann and Elise Terrell as Supervising Producers. Zhubin Parang is the Head Writer with Daniel Radosh as Senior Writer. The series is directed by Chuck O'Neil.
"The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" airs Mondays-Thursdays at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT on Comedy Central and is available to stream the following day on thedailyshow.com and the Comedy Central App. Viewers can follow "The Daily Show" on Twitter (4.7M followers), Instagram (568 followers) and Snapchat and by becoming a fan of "The Daily Show" on Facebook (6.4M fans). Fans can follow Trevor Noah on Twitter (5.3M followers), Facebook (3.4M fans) and Instagram (1.1M followers).
Available on-air, online and on-the-go via the Comedy Central App, Comedy Central (www.cc.com) is the #1 brand in comedy and is owned by, and is a registered trademark of, Comedy Partners, a wholly-owned unit of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA and VIAB).
Viacom is home to premier global media brands that create compelling television programs, motion pictures, short-form content, apps, games, consumer products, social media experiences, and other entertainment content for audiences in 180 countries. Viacom's media networks, including Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, VH1, Spike, BET, CMT, TV Land, Nick at Nite, Nick Jr., Channel 5 (UK), Logo, Nicktoons, TeenNick and Paramount Channel, reach over 3.5 billion cumulative television subscribers worldwide. Paramount Pictures is a major global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment. For more information about Viacom and its businesses, visit www.viacom.com. Keep up with Viacom news by following Viacom's blog at blog.viacom.com and Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/Viacom.
|