Roy Wood Jr. To Host CNN Panel Show “Have I Got News For You”

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Roy Wood Jr. is making the leap from working at The Daily Show to a new show that takes a comedic look at the news.

Today, it was announced that the comedian will host Have I Got News For You on CNN. This is a spin-off of the popular UK comedy panel show of the same name. It also stems from the same producers as the original. This new version will be a 10-episode limited series “features comic observations from the satirical to the surreal through the lens of a news quiz show.”

“For far too long immigrants have been coming to America and taking black jobs, kudos to CNN and the immigrants at [the show’s production company ] Hat Trick Productions for bringing a Black job to the States,” he said in a statement. “It is an honor to be a part of such a hallowed British institution to help make sense of the American institutions of chaos, name calling, disinformation, reality television and the 8-hour news cycle.”

The show premieres September 14th at 9 PM EST on CNN and will be available on Max the next day.