The Daily Show on Thursday finished out the week in Chicago in far better form than the hapless Cubs. For four days at the Athanaeum Theatre, Trevor Noah hosted an “undesked” version of his Comedy Central show that played for the most part as a stand-up showcase interlaced with news clips. Performing amid scenic design that suggested an alley beneath a stretch of elevated train tracks, Noah and Daily Show senior correspondent Hasan Minhaj rarely passed up an opportunity to indulge the hometown crowd, which obediently laughed and applauded on command.
Mensa deftly steered the host back on course:
