and thandiwe newton, this is "the daily show." with trevor noah. >> trevor: hey, what's going on, everybody. welcome to the daily showk i'm trevor noah let's jump straight into the big story today which is obviously the omicron variant. the coronavirus mutation causing more chaos in the world than rihanna's booty pajamas. so let's try to break it down, not the pajamas, the variant in another edition of keeping up with coronavirus. for most of 2021 the walls have been fighting the various covid variant which are more he vish than than the ogi, we had alpha, lambda, delta, now it turned it into the shitiess house of all time but when we thought we had it figured out last week scientists in south africa announced they discovered a new variant. and what they saw is freaking people out. >> scientists are racing to learn more about a new covid variant already setting off alarm bells around the world. according to south african scients the mom kron variant has more than 50 mu taitions and likely to be more transmissible. >> it has a bunc