60 Minutes goes backstage as « The Daily Show » comedian fine-tunes his jokes — and Lesley Stahl finds herself walking right into one of them.
This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Lesley Stahl a stand-up comedian and host of « The Daily Show » on Comedy Central. On television, the biracial South African brings an international dimension to late-night comedy. Off screen, the 60 Minutes team found, Noah is quick to find humor in daily life and frequently riffs on jokes he makes up on the spot.
« Funny is something that I developed as a tool to belong », Noah explained to Stahl.
60 Minutes’ cameras watched Noah hone his humor during a rewriting session before a taping of « The Daily Show », a ViacomCBS property. Noah was reviewing the script with show writers and executive producer, Jen Flanz, when he arrived at a joke about doctors successfully transplanting a pig kidney into a human patient. Midway through reading the script, he had a thought: What if the transplant recipient takes on characteristics of the donor? Writer and supervising producer Zhubin Parang picked up where Noah was going.
