Jessica Williams is leaving "The Daily Show"
Jessica Williams is saying goodbye to "The Daily Show."
After four years as a correspondent for the long-running satirical news program, Williams will depart after this week to pursue new projects with Comedy Central. Thursday will mark her final appearance, she revealed to Entertainment Weekly.
Williams was the youngest correspondent to join the program when she started in 2012, and her new move also makes her the youngest to depart.
"I feel so many emotions. I feel like I'm growing up and graduating," Williams said. "It's so bittersweet. I've just been going in and out of crying a little bit, giving a lot of hugs, all that stuff."
Williams signed a development deal with Comedy Central in March and is leaving to work on the pilot for her a new half-hour scripted series for the network about "a politically-minded young woman who may be 'woke' but doesn't know what she's doing."
"It's a show about someone in their 20s who has all these social ideas but still, like, does not have it together," Williams explained. "And she's goofy and silly and funny."
"The sadness I have for Jessica leaving is only eclipsed by the joy I have for her starting her new show," host Trevor Noah said in a statement. "If her podcast is anything to go by, it's going to be an exciting show."