“It still could happen,” Wood saysin a clipof his potential return as host.
“I just don’t want to do work in the meantime …
I was shocked at the decision myself because No.

Comedy Central
1, we were in a strike.
Who do you know come off [a] strike and then quit the job?
… That wasn’t the plan.”
“But while you got your process, I need to have my process,” he says.
And the job of correspondent … it’s not easy.
So I had to leave.
I’m sorry … that’s just what it is and it’s nothing personal.
This is the first job I ever quit where I got to clean out my office."
Walking away fromThe Daily Showafter eight years feels like a breakup to Wood.
“It’s like, ‘Hey, do you want to get married?’
and then Comedy Central is like, ‘We gonna date around,'” he says.
That’s really what it was.
Like I understand it.
We thank him for his time with us and can’t wait to see what he does next."
Watch the clip below.