“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.

Roy Wood Jr. on The Daily Show

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.