Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah is a South African comedian, television and radio host and actor. He is the host of American late-night comedy/commentary television program The Daily Show, succeeding Jon Stewart...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth20 February 1984
CityJohannesburg, South Africa
voting done i-realized
We always look at gerrymandering and what it has done to voting in America, but what I realized the other day is that the news has somehow become gerrymandered and is continuing to be gerrymandered in America.
thinking isolation social-change
I think any show has the potential to bring about social change. I do not think any one show in isolation can do it. I think it is a groundswell that needs to continue to be bolstered from all ends.
taken people scary
In America, to have news that has explicitly taken a position is a very strange place to be in, and it's a very dangerous place to be in. And that's happening on Facebook, as you saw, and that's happening online. People are just being given their news and not the news, which is really, really scary.
thinking people welcome
I actually think this whole Brexit thing in the U.K. was a welcome example of being straightforward. With the candidates pulling out quickly, there's no stringing the people along.
planning
No one knows what Donald Trump is doing or planning.
america phrases segregation
In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase.
want should notion
I want to be in a position where I get to start off fresh. I don't have any preconceived notion of how I should feel.
taken america democracy
America is the one place in the world where I just innately understood [that] South Africa and the United States of America have a very similar history. It's different timelines, but the directions we've taken and the consequences - dealing with the aftermath of what we consider to be democracy, and realizing that freedom is just the beginning of the conversation, that's something I've learned.
news spheres normal
There's news that happens in different spheres and can be made just as funny, but it's not necessarily in the normal news medium.
ebola people identity
I love ebola jokes. When done in the right way, maybe it gets people to learn about ebola, to learn about the stigmas behind the identities held by Africans and so on.
comedian world comedy
Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.
political trying way
I'm not a political progressive, but I consider myself a progressive person. What makes me a progressive, in my opinion, is the fact that I try to improve myself and by large improve the world that I'm in - in the smallest way possible.
white people black
When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in it. That didn't exist.
gay rights progressive
In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American context.