A. It was. Both of us were like: “We got the job! This is a dream job!” And then we find out Dad is leaving, and we’re like: “No! What is happening?” I told Jon: “I just got married. What’s going to happen to the show?” But Jon was on a mission to have somebody internally guide the ship. It’s only when you really come from within the show that you realize how great the writers and the producers are and that they really are the machine that makes this whole thing run. Trevor saw the value in it, and so it worked out.

It seems like you and the other correspondents have been getting more screen time with Trevor.

If you remember earlier episodes of “The Daily Show” with Jon, it was more of an ensemble cast. And I think Trevor has designed it in such a way, à la the old “Daily Show,” for this to be the new comedy Avengers. We all bring our superpowers to the table.

A lot of the childhood stories you tell in “Homecoming King” are very painful. Do you find it difficult to tell them over and over again?

Yeah, there are certain parts that it’s really hard to say. How in the third grade, there was that assignment, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” And I wrote, “I want to be white.”

I gave a commencement speech at my high school this past summer, and [my former guidance counselor] goes: “Hasan, I had no idea you were going through that. You smiled all the time, and I knew girls that liked you.” And I’m standing there freaking out, like this could have changed my life had I just known that. There would be no need for this show, and I’m going down this rabbit hole.