Hasan Minhaj eyed to replace Trevor Noah on ‘Daily Show’

Hasan Minhaj may be switching to the night shift.

It’s rumored that the former “Patriot Act” creator is one of the main candidates to host Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.”

Sources divulged to Variety recently that the monthslong quest to find a suitable player to replace emcee Trevor Noah has almost reached its end.

The South African comedian, 39, departed the late night news show in December, and a revolving door of guest hosts have since filled the coveted seat.

According to three unnamed sources, Minhaj, 37, “is not guaranteed to win the position,” as a “deal is not believed to have been finalized” yet.

But he “has emerged as a likely successor” to Noah.

Minhaj was a correspondent on the show from 2014 to 2018, appearing a handful of times, and was applauded when he guest-hosted the show for a week in March.

He also holds the important distinction of being the last “Daily Show” player hired by longtime host Jon Stewart, who left the show in 2015.

He even divulged his interest of hosting the comedy program this past May, telling Variety’s “Awards Circuit” podcast: “I’m definitely open to the conversation. It’s also a family conversation now. It’s a very different conversation than when I first got hired at the show when I was 29.”

“My life is in a very different place. And so that’s a bigger life/family convo. It changes a lot of things,” he noted.

The “Morning Show” actor added that helming the show is “an all-encompassing, all consuming thing. And other people have to live with the consequences of what I say. And I just want to make sure everybody, if that were to ever come to fruition, ‘Hey, are we all on board with this?’”

The Post has reached out Minhaj for comment.

Variety also reported that the show’s producers hope to come to a decision by May 2024 — just in time for the annual Upfronts.

Every spring, the television industry’s biggest networks gather to present their fall TV show lineups in hopes of securing commercial advertising for their series.

But the current actors and writers strikes may delay those plans.

A slew of hosts have kept Noah’s seat warm since his exit, including Wanda Sykes, Marlon Wayans, Sarah Silverman, Kal Penn, and Leslie Jones.

“Saturday Night Live” alum Jones, 55, expressed her desire to run the desk at “The Daily Show” earlier this year.

She revealed to People in April: “[The host] definitely should be a black woman.”

“It would be great to have a black woman on late night. It’s time. I think people are ready for that. Now, I’m not s–tting on white women or whatever. I’m just saying,” she pointed out.