[Washington Examiner] "The Daily Show" host Trevor Noah said in a new interview that his show doesn't focus on Fox News as much as it did under the prior host, and said he doesn't want his audience watching the network."We seldom engage with Fox News," Noah said, according to the Hollywood Reporter. "And, that's been because, as Trevor, I don't watch Fox News. I encourage my audience to not watch Fox News. I don't think you should put yourself through that."
The show's prior host, Jon Stewart, spent a lot of time mocking Fox News. But Noah said he doesn't see value in attacking Fox News every day.
"We don't see Fox News as the villain we're chasing after," he said.
Noah said he was uncertain if he would want to speak at the annual White House Correspondents' dinner following the controversy that ensued after "Daily Show" correspondent Michelle Wolf’s comments at the dinner last month.
"I honestly don't know. I don't know," Noah said. "Because I think of what the intention is. What am I trying to do? What is the dinner trying to do? What is it for? And, after this dinner, I ask that question even more now."
Included in Wolf’s controversial performance were jabs at White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, who Wolf argued "burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smokey eye." Wolf also called Sanders an "Uncle Tom" for white women, and compared her to a character in the dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale.