We shall see, and you may very well be correct.
I am not sure how he can come back from being a joke to a “serious” narrative reader. But in this world, stranger things have happened.
I have no problem with him being gone, I don’t watch their product anyway. Any of them.
I think he should reinvent himself as a joke persona. It could really work for him. Like when Leslie Nielsen went from doing dramatic work to doing Airplane and Naked Gun. Brian Williams always seems so stiff, it seems like he’s playing a parody of an anchorman already anyway. This is probably the only way he could make himself a likable figure to the public at this point.