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, look at the landscape of late-night television and you'll see that the majority of hosts are white men in their 40s and 50s. No Trevor Noah, he's biracial, he's not American and he's only 37 years old, but he is a certified celebrity with a global impact. After who has brought an international dimension to Central's comedy The Daily Show, he is from South Africa, where he grew up under apartheid. He called the Memory of him being born a crime because it was illegal for a black woman like his mother and a white man like his father to mix.

Trevor says he always felt like an outsider, but his humor that makes people laugh has been his ticket to belonging. Trevor Noah is back on tour with his comedy show in a different city practically every weekend, yeah if you were in Texas they would be like you have guns in the vehicle they say okay this is what he loves owning the stage, the roar of the huge crowd, usually fifteen thousand in giant arenas like this one in Washington D.C., okay buddy, here we go, we're about to start. Taking our monologue, it's a far cry from his more limited day job in the TV studio on The Daily Show, where he got off to a shaky start when he took over six years ago from Jon Stewart and now feels like the family has a new stepfather and he was black. it was a terrible good decision initially horrible don't take the daily show leslie when it's offered to whatever you do don't take the daily show what happened at the beginning oh i mean everyone hated me people didn't even know me and you hated the idea of ​​me, but you had a savior, Donald Trump, once you realize that Trump is basically the perfect African president, you start to notice the similarities everywhere, once he found his foil, the secret document, his Grades began to improve and he realized he could connect.

From American politics to his South African background, he grew up in Johannesburg and its black township of Soweto during apartheid's strict regime of racial separation. He always felt like an outsider, not quite black like his mother, not quite white like his Swiss father, whom he has. rarely seen in your life being with your father who was white that was a crime yes this was the law that forbade people of different races to mix there is something I heard I'm not sure I believe it but your grandfather used to call you teacher Yes, because of the color of your skin, that's how he referred to me and he always made me sit in the back of the car.

What can the police say if I say they should sit with me? Your parents were your grandmother in particular. I was always afraid that the police would come, yes, and find you. What would have happened if they had found you? They probably would have taken me to an orphanage. No, yes, your grandmother was always hiding you. Yes, you were locked up, right? She wasn't. in a pandemic before the pandemic even existed, but you were poor, you write in your book about eating worms and having a toy that was a brick. This is what I always tell people who are poor in a group or in a community that is poor is not.

As bad as being poor when you know what you're missing, so when I grew up we played with bricks and you smashed them into each other and it was one of the most fun games I've ever played. The same with eating mopani worms what I didn't like was when we couldn't eat anything else and my mom said we are going to have to eat them for longer because we don't have money to buy chicken and spend time inside, he became a voracious reader, he wrote about his mother Patricia Noah in her Memoir, Born a Crime, saying she raised him almost as if he were white, with no limitations on what he could achieve, she wrote that it was just the two of them, him and his mother against the world.

But she later married a man named Abel, who said he beat her mother and then shot her in the head. The bullets in her head didn't hit anything vital, yes, apart from the head, obviously, but they didn't hit her spinal cord, they didn't touch the nerves. brain and all she did was cut a piece of his nostril on one side and the bullet came out clean and my mom looks at me and says: Trevor, don't cry baby, I said no, no, I'm going to cry. shot in the head and she says no, no, no, no, look on the bright side, I said what a brain she says, she says no, at least now because of my nose, you're officially the prettiest person in the family, you said that you had the black one. world and you had the white world and this is a quote from you, all I wanted to do was belong, everyone wants to belong, half of our fights in life are because we want to belong, so I grew up in a country where they told me that.

Your belonging was defined by the tone of your skin color and that never worked for me, you know, I found that my greatest joy was with people where we shared interests and the way we talked and the way we laughed, etc., so I always wanted. Belonging and I think that has been a gift and a curse in life. I have a strange feeling that you belonged because you were funny, it's something I developed as a tool. Yes, belong, he was funny in Johannesburg but he became a professional comedian by accident when he was 22 and went on stage at a comedy club on a dare from his cousin, yes you laugh but it's true because I'm mixed , you know, I have like a percentage like it's that kind of thing. he killed it he gave up his plan to go to college and was soon touring the world as a comedian according to Forbes he is one of the highest paid comedians today.

He started traveling around the United States in 2011 and a year later since When I was a kid he always wanted one thing and that is that he always wanted to be black. He was on The Tonight Show and caught the attention of Jon Stewart's producer on the Viacom CBS-owned The Daily Show when he was finally offered the hosting chair and said it would have meant taking a pay cut and giving up his life in the road, so Stewart had to convince him and he said: I'm not offering you the glitz and glamor of your life, I'm offering you a home for a while that I think you'll come to enjoy that that intrigued me I was like I'd always wanted to have a home I always wanted to belong to and then I thought well, this could be the this could be the opportunity from Trevor's couch in New York City and the opportunity to weigh in on serious topics when greed hit and he was broadcasting from his apartment, almost 11 million people watched his monologue about race and George Floyd there was a black man on the ground in handcuffs and you could take his life and you did it almost knowing there would be no ramifications so it wasn't funny and now we have a new dimension for Trevor .

I guess you have seen a different dimension to travel. I've always had the Dimension different, you showed the public that that's true. Some of the funniest people we know on the planet have depression. It comes to mind. Well, I think over the years what I've learned from some great therapists is what my depression is. created by a severe level of ADHD ADHD looks like depression, what do you mean it can be different for different people? I don't know, but for me it is like that, it means that if I'm not careful with how I sleep and how I eat.

How I Manage My Routine I can feel overwhelmed and I can feel like the whole world is too heavy to bear. You said something that sticks in my mind. You said it wasn't until you came to the United States that the real hate began. Coming towards you, oh yes, definitely, what was the hate you felt? Have you ever been stopped by the police? The police stopped you quite often. Yeah, one of my best friends, David Maya, you know, he drives all over the west coast to see these comedy shows. was driving, they would pull us over and I think he would drive, they wouldn't pull us over, but you said you experienced hate, yeah, but I mean, that's welcome in America, you know, that's tough, yeah, there's a lot of hate in America because there's a lot of anger in America how is it changing you for me?

I'm always trying to figure out how to talk to someone who hates me. The story will continue after this. This is where we are for now due to his childhood growing up between two different worlds that he tends to see on both sides of an argument, take his reaction to the trouble his friend comedian Dave Chappelle got into during his Netflix special, the closer we black people get to the door that was criticized as homophobic, transphobic and misogynistic in their minds. Did he cross the line Did Dave Chappelle cross the line? But. He immediately puts me in a position where I have to choose a side when I think the issue is much more complex.

I think everyone is drawing the line for themselves. No Society defines a line, you see, what you are saying now is what you are saying. Society has decided, but America is clearly divided in that half of society is gone like no Dave Chappelle we love what you said, we're sick of wokeness, we're sick. of people being told what to say, we're sick of not knowing how to use the correct pronoun, you're right Dave Chappelle, so if half of society says Dave Chappelle is right and half of society says he's wrong then that means there is no line, it means that society is looking at the line from two different sides and that's why I say you can't say if he crossed the line because which side you are looking at the line from defines if he crossed it or not, still you are learning? things all the time yeah well he's had to learn about New York City his new home since 2015 for an apartment here make new friends let me ask you about your personal life for a minute do you want to have kids?

Sometimes I come and go. I'll meet kids who make me go I want a kid and then sometimes I'll meet kids where I go I hope my sperm doesn't do anything because this person is a terror you're 37 okay, you're there, that's him The clock is ticking, okay, but no You're sorry, no, no, now you have a girlfriend. Maybe well, I read page six like everyone else in this world, the tabloids, you don't like to talk about your friends, no, what's Trevor like? with their girlfriends there is no catch, you don't have to answer the question Trevor introduced us to comedy producer Ryan Hardooth and comedian David Kibuka, now supervising producer on The Daily Show, they are among his oldest friends in South Africa, you don't have to. answer any question about personal relationships who told you that okay, what does Mitch McConnell like with his girlfriends? do you know the answer to that question?

I don't know exactly why he didn't answer it because they don't even ask him and also because people don't want to know this is what I will say about triple with his girlfriends is that so you're just moving on completely yeah of course it's wow it's that he He's very, very, like a great boyfriend, so what? These are the qualities you like most about Trevor He's a great boyfriend Yes Trevor told us he hangs out with these guys often and talks to his mom every day Things he says keep him grounded He's a perfectionist No, I I wouldn't say workaholic yes yes I would say 100, he sure is, although he does The Daily Show during the week and will be hosting the Grammys on CBS again in January.

He refuses to give up his real comedy shows. I love the feeling of love. I think when we laugh as human beings is when we are our most authentic selves, which is why your true love is so ugly. You know what I mean? It is not filtered in any way. I love it, it's like pure joy. Forget what people think. Laugh, you know we need it every day, every day.