Wyatt Cenac is leaving the Daily Show.
Comedy Central has confirmed to Vulture that Wyatt Cenac—he of the deadpan demeanor and Sea World slavery exposés—will be leaving The Daily Show at the end of the year, finishing a run as correspondent and writer that began in 2008. There's no word on what Cenac has planned for his life post-Daily Show, although he has maintained his stand-up comedy career on the side, so presumably he's leaving to concentrate on that until the inevitable sitcom offer comes in. Cenac's final episode will be December 13, the show's last of 2012, and presumably will include some sort of send-off, unless they just open up a trap door and drop him down into whatever dungeon is currently holding Vance DeGeneres.
Interesting to see what he does once he leaves. He strikes me as a guy who won't necessarily get big, but will involve himself in some interesting projects, unlike Corrdry who seemed to float around a bit before
Children's Hospital.
BTW, check out his early, pre-Daily Show appearance on the Battleship Pretension movie podcast, where he tells a great story about writing notes on the worst racial-based body-switching movie script that will hopefully never get made into a feature. And yes, it was called
Ebony and Ivory.
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