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'Daily Show' host Trevor Noah is going on the road — and taking Quibi along for the ride.

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00:00Trevor Noah is the latest A-list star to head to the short-form streaming platform, Quibi.

00:04The Daily Show host is going on the road and taking Quibi along for the ride.

00:08Noah will star in and executive produce an untitled series for the short-form streaming platform

00:13that will chronicle a tour he takes to the far corners of the country and beyond.

00:16The series, which is part comedy and part travelogue, will give viewers a look at the candid interactions

00:21Noah has with the people he meets and the places he visits along the way.

00:25It will also show how those moments influence both his point of view and his stand-up comedy.

00:29Americans will go back to the finest statistic.

00:31The last time a black man scored using his left hand jumping over a mixed-race half-Indian was in 1967.

00:41Quibi, the mobile-only platform founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg,

00:44is slated to launch in Spring 2020 and deliver its series to users in chapters of 8 to 10 minutes each.

00:49Quibi will cost $5 per month for version with ads and $8 monthly for one without.

00:53There are currently more than 40 scripted and unscripted projects in the works at the platform.

00:57Now this move makes Noah the latest A-lister to bring a project to Quibi.

01:01The mobile-only streaming platform has also greenlit series from Guillermo del Toro,

01:04Jennifer Lopez, Lena Waithe, Lorne Michaels, Darren Criss, Tyra Banks and Idris Elba among others.

01:11For more on this story, head to THR.com.

01:13Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.

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