Night Two of THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH Posts Big Gains
By: Caryn Robbins Oct. 01, 2015
Night two of "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" brought big ratings gains for Comedy Central with the new iteration of the Emmy® and Peabody® Award-winning series showing double-digit gains across the board vs. its premiere night telecast on the #1 brand in comedy. Socially, "The Daily Show" remained the #1 series in Late FRINGE on Nielsen Social Guide ranked on Unique Audience among all programming.
Compared to Trevor Noah's Monday premiere on Comedy Central, the September 29 episode, which featured segments on Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin at the U.N. and the attempts of Hillary Clinton and Ben Carson to pander to the youth vote, increased its audience by +13% in total viewers (1.2 million), and its ratings by +20% with Adults 18-49, +21% with Adults 18-34 and +55% with Men 18-34. Versus the final quarter of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," the September 29 episode of "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" saw ratings gains of +21% with Adults 18-49, +71% with Adults 18-34, and nearly doubled the Men 18-34 rating (+92%). On the multiplatform front, Noah's full-episode premiere (September 28) has already been streamed over 750K times and clips from the episode have recorded nearly 4 million views across platforms. "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" airs Monday-Thursday at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT. Guests for the remainder of premiere week include Governor Chris Christie (tonight) and Ryan Adams (October 1). Scheduled guests for Noah's second week are Seth Rogen (October 5), Aaron Sorkin (October 6), Evgeny Afineevsky (October 7) and Rachel Maddow (October 8). Episodes are available to stream the following day on thedailyshow.com and the Comedy Central App.
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