Trevor Noah on being "Born a Crime," 2016 campaign

Trevor Noah became host of The Daily Show last fall, just as the

2016

election

campaign

was starting to heat up, doing a late-night satirical take throughout the race, and nearly a week after the results, the comedian isn't ashamed of how he is trying to cope with the result. If you finally woke up from a coma this morning, you might want to go back. The full results are like Trump's hair. I know it's real, but my mind accepts it, Sir. It was a great honor for the President to be with you and I hope to be with you many more times in the future.

Thank my Lord. It's an incredible performance, especially by President Obama, which means at least one black person should be nominated for an Oscar. This year, during the elections in Falls, Noah opens up about his own past in his new book called Born a Crime, Stories from South African Childhood. Trevor describes his growth during the twilight of apartheid and the difficult years that followed. Welcome him back to the family table. Can I start with the title of the book Born a Crime? I read it. I choked up a couple of times because I didn't know anything about your background other than South Africa and I've been there.

I think it's a beautiful country, but wow! War and a

crime

mean that when you were

born

you were illegal because your father was white, your mother is black and you weren't supposed to get together, so you spent much of your childhood in hiding. I did my I spent a lot of my time hiding. from the authorities, you know, my grandmother hid me, my mother hid me, we had to hide our family, in essence, you know, I think one of the greatest gifts that my parents gave me was the fact that they didn't let me know why We were hiding, so when I was a kid, that was the only world I knew.

I just knew we were inside a lot. I knew my dad would be walking across the street when we left. I knew that my mom sometimes dressed me like a maid, which I thought was her style of dress at the time, so I didn't know that they were hiding us from the authorities of the country we were growing up in and I didn't know at the time that my existence was against the law and then you didn't fit in with the black community you said you didn't fit in with the white community either well I guess I didn't fit in in terms of what the government wants from me to fit in the way they wanted me to be. , but I was very lucky to grow up in an African community.

I was welcomed. I grew up as a young black man. I grew up as an African man, so I felt completely at home, but I mean my In our country we were divided into races, so even my mother and I were considered two completely different races and we were given different freedoms depending on the law. So how did it shape you? I think it shaped me because it made me an outsider, it kept me an outsider, you know, and that's one of the greatest gifts that I only came to appreciate later in life and that is that when you're an outsider, you're always working to see different people's points of view because the world is never yours, you know?

You don't exist in a space where you ever see yourself as the be all and end all and that was one of the greatest gifts I received that I didn't appreciate for most of my life and now I see it. like a strength when you look back and think about it, yes, definitely, definitely, one of the nicest things about this book the Washington Post reporter describes it this way is that it's actually a love letter to your mother , it really is, yes, which I didn't do. intention, I won't lie, I thought I was the hero of my story, I think we all know this, when I wrote the book, it was like I was a hero, this is my life, this is what I did and I wrote everything. of these stories from my childhood and once I put them all together I read them and said: wow, my mom is an incredible woman.

You know, single women are amazing women. I mean, South Africa is a nation that because of the laws and the police that had taken away so many black men we are a nation raised by women but you described your mother as a Tom and Jerry relationship, a police officer and a criminal relationship, she said, you said she taught me to be a man, but she didn't teach me to be a boy, yeah, yeah, my mom, my mom was always behind me, she would know Joe, but she was. I'm not going to lie, it was a child terrorist, please don't take it as her.

I called you a problem to travel humanely. I was one of the naughtiest children I know. A house disappointed me. My house burned down because of me. I didn't burn the house down, but you may have been involved with Isis, where a house was burned down, I mean, you've had an interesting position in America to sit and watch a political

campaign

, yeah, now we've seen an election and Looking at a new president, how do you see him and what is your own sense of how we should react to Donald, well, the most important thing I've seen is that America is not as immune to the ills of the world as I thought, you know. , I think a lot of the world is disappointed in America because America This is that beacon, that beacon, you know, a bastion of democracy and when you look at what happened during the election, I think it's sad that we're now living in a place where we are normalizing and moving forward so quickly. too obvious truths that were part of what happened in the elections.

I recognize that a white working class is something we can talk about, but we cannot deny that many of Donald Trump's supporters were making large amounts of money. They are doing very well, but there are people who put two things above everything and that is whiteness and that is also sex and misogyny. You know, people talk about the glass ceiling, but what you don't realize is that you can't see it because you can see it. and misogyny disappears very quickly from the conversation where, even as a man, I have to accept the fact that it is a difficult world and when there is this invisible monster that keeps you down, they have a term in terms. of racism called implicit bias, yes, definitely, and you see a lot of Hillary people deal with it throughout her life, you know, and I keep trying to think about that and unfortunately I have to use the metric in my head where I say if she were a man and the fact that I even have to say that means there is a problem yes you know I have to say if she were a man how would I see her, would you know her achievements, would they not pale, do you know what it would hurt or The shortcomings would not They pale in comparison to those achievements, but the truth is that we live in this world and until we work to recognize it more, we will never make it clear, as you point out, that we have to understand what our values ​​are and be true to our values ​​definitely at the same time. time you say we should get along, maybe well, you have to give it a chance because the president I'm not saying I'd like to give it a chance, you have to do it when the person is the president, the person is and the people have spoken, yeah , nineteen percent of the people have spoken, which is strange, the majority look at all the votes needs.

When you were little you dreamed of having a driveway, I'm thinking. Now you have bigger dreams. Well, I still dream of having a driveway. NY. You can not. Trevor Noah. Continued success. Thank you. Thank you very much again. Born as a

crime

, it will be on sale tomorrow.