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SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS TO APPEAR ON THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH THIS THURSDAY, APRIL 4 AT 11:00 P.M. ET/PT ON COMEDY CENTRAL
NEW YORK, April 2, 2019 - The Daily Show with Trevor Noah today announced 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders will appear as a guest on the late-night franchise this Thursday, April 4 at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT on Comedy Central.
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah has proven to be a key stop for Presidential candidates and prominent political figures with recent appearances by Cory Booker, Julian Castro, Chris Christie, Hillary Clinton, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Jay Inslee, John Kasich, Amy Klobuchar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and President Barack Obama.
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah continues to be the most socially engaged series across all of late night TV (ListenFirst 1/1/19 to 3/31/19). Recent highlights for the franchise series include winning the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series; receiving six nominations and an honor for the upcoming Webby Awards, which honors excellence on the internet; nabbing eight nominations for the upcoming 11th Annual Shorty Awards which honors the best in social media; and receiving the Spirit of SXSW 2019 award for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents: The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library.
In 2018, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah scored its first Emmy nomination for Outstanding Variety Talk Series since Trevor Noah took over as host, along with its first nomination in the Outstanding Interactive Program category. The series also received its second consecutive nomination for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series for Between the Scenes, a category for which it received the Emmy(R) Award in 2017.
Trevor Noah, Jen Flanz and Jill Katz are the Executive Producers of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, with Justin Melkmann as Co-Executive Producer, and David Kibuuka and Zhubin Parang as producers. Max Browning, Eric Davies, Pam DePace, Ramin Hedayati and Elise Terrell are Supervising Producers. Dan Amira is the Head Writer, with Lauren Sarver Means and Daniel Radosh as Senior Writers. The series is directed by Paul Pennolino. Sarah Babineau and Ari Pearce are the Executives in Charge of Production for Comedy Central.
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 exclusively on thedailyshow.com and the Comedy Central App. Viewers can follow The Daily Show on Twitter (7.9M followers) and Instagram (2.9M followers), subscribe to its YouTube channel (4.5M subscribers) and become a fan of The Daily Show on Facebook (8.2M fans). Fans can follow Trevor Noah on Twitter (9.7M followers), Facebook (5.5M fans) and Instagram (4M followers). Fans can also receive The Daily Show Flash Briefing on Amazon Alexa devices, subscribe to The Daily Show's Emmy(R) Award-winning "Between the Scenes" via Facebook's new Watch tab and listen to highlights and extended interviews on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah: Ears Edition podcast available across most podcast apps.
On July 31, 2018, The Daily Show released The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents: The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library book. A New York Times bestseller, the tome is an illustrated portrait of the Donald J. Trump Twitter account, with analysis and "scholarly" commentary from the writers of The Daily Show with an introduction by Trevor Noah as well as a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham. It is published by Spiegel & Grau, a division of Penguin Random House.
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