Jessica Williams Announces That She Is Leaving The Daily Show

She will be staying at Comedy Central with a show of her own.

June 29, 2016

Jessica Wiliams is leaving her spot as the youngest ever correspondent on The Daily Show. She is going to headline a pilot for Comedy Central after she signed a development deal with the network back in March. Williams will write, produce, and star in the as-yet-titled series. According to an EW report, the show follows "a politically minded young woman" in her 20s "who may be 'woke' but doesn’t know what she’s doing." Read the entire interview here.

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Jessica Williams Announces That She Is Leaving The Daily Show