You Laugh But It's True - Trevor Noah Stand-Up in South Africa Documentary

I've lived a life where I've never fit in in any particular way, even now people still debate what I am, where people will say oh you're black and then someone will turn around and say no, but you're not. . black is not black he is colored and then colored people say but you're not colored and then when you get older it's cool because you've just lived everywhere nowhere you've been everyone and no one so you I can say everything and nothing and that's really what affects my comedy and everything I say and if ever this comedy thing doesn't work out then I'll have to resort to poverty and I'm pretty sure I'll be fine there.

This whole musical game is like a challenge that we just recently emerged from, in a time when everything we could say and everything we were allowed to hear made sense. The biggest challenge in this country is to get to the point where people accept the fact that we are free to say what we feel and really free to express ourselves, there are a lot of misconceptions, although I have noticed that people think that when they say A South African comedian is hoping someone will jump on stage wearing leopard skins. dancing around let me tell you a joke about monkeys, now I have very good works about monkeys and I refrain from telling them because people have these opinions about you and they are not correct, you know, because South Africa is not as third world as many people think she's

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ing in the airport terminal building there was a woman who was

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ing next to me in the passport line, she looked at me and very eloquently said oh my gosh you talk funny yes you talk funny where are you ? you from I'm from South Africa oh my god like Africa yes oh wow like Africa Africa no the one next to stand-up comedy as an art form and as a profession has obviously only come to the fore in recent times.

It developed quite late in South Africa, so it's almost like comedy develops in waves and in each wave or each generation there is like a group of guys who have kept it going since Mel Miller and Joe Parker and Barry Hilton, Mark bank, some of the older guys who are still acting now other people who tell you oh yeah, as you get older things get better and then obviously now you know John Christmases and Riyad Musa David Newton. Our football is now. We're inviting everyone to see how he was going to become the first pioneering black comedian?

I would definitely attribute it to Cathy Soledica and David Carl, who entered the circuit first and obviously had to deal with the challenges of performing for all these different audiences that weren't used to it. a comedy and two black comedians, plus, this whole idea, you know American cultural imperialism, and I started thinking, can you imagine when, when Nelson Mandela was like a young revolutionary, if he liked Ben 10 and he liked to listen to Snoop Doggy Dog and you know, walking around with a big arrogant medallion with an m, you know you can touch the microphone, brothers and sisters of South Africa, this apartheid is crazy, we have to make a revolution in this, the police, so, that marked the guideline for the Trevor Noah of the new generation has been a kind of young man who attacked, you know, it's like that, so it came like out of nowhere, really for the first time we have a comedian who is not attached to a race or ethnic group , he's from a white family so part of him is because he's from a black family part of him is black part of him is colored because you know his experiences would have included he's lived everywhere from the township to the conventional suburbs and on top of that, he talks about what four or five languages ​​play in South Africa, Malacca, which loosely translated means I will backhand you so hard, you idiot of a child, so I usually speak English because it brings back good memories for that can relate to almost everyone around the world. and everyone across the board can relate to it for the South African public.

I think that guy becomes like every man you know, he's not black, he's not white, he's just like whoa, he's mine, he's everyone, like someone who's only been doing comedy for a little over two years or even I think I know it at all I don't even know myself at all yet I think I'm a long way from calling myself a good comedian I'm just fine for now There's something about comedy man There's something about the fact that you know you can, you never will do it right but blacks never get a break you ain't realize you'll say things and then they fix it you'll say yeah that's when I realized it was better for us to be part of management no no jabu management yes no it's management it's management management no no management get up early management management no no no with your body with your words management management very good management management well done job well done, it's wonderful, you can speak very well now, that's incredible, yes, it's cool oh wait two seconds yeah what is that sarah really wow so the country is theirs now i see a taboo in the administration yeah now show me show me show me you have a country of 50 millions of people but we don't have any real comedy clubs, if we want to perform we have to rent a music club and it's on their free nights so most people don't even know there's a show on, we have some comedy. festivals, but these are quite rare, people really come to see the international acts, not to see you, you can't really say comedy that big here, it's big in corporate terms, you know, I mean, companies have now gotten into this, oh yeah, let's get comedians because I've had everyone else right, where will I act in the equation?

Can we go check it now? The faces I make while shaving are the same ones I make while having sex. I can't use a razor. My skin is sensitive like that of our country. used you almost face a challenge because as a comedian you have to choose well I want to make a living still doing comedy and almost get censored because the companies themselves are very careful about what they accept and what they don't accept you're too much to swim um no, no, I don't deviate, although it's okay, but everyone I swear likes daily life, you know, but I won't swing there, I don't care about companies.

Honestly, on stage in general, but on the streets I'm like, yeah, thank you, thank you very much, that was one of the worst intros I've ever had, this is horrible, one of the worst, one of the worst, yeah, it was a The worst thing is that I'm standing in front of the Microsoft projected in my head. Don't you want to turn it off? Please, it's not a privilege for me to have someone tell you: don't talk about who you really are, we saw you do what you do and that's why we called you, but now we want you to water it down, just filter out anything that might be controversial, yes, you should have spent a day with me tomorrow, then I would have shown you, not tomorrow Wednesday, I would have shown you the companies. corporations that donate from nine in the morning until nine at night I will do corporations Andrew's father, who was a very kind man, decided to help me, he looked and said, well, you know Andrew, in some people's cultures , ladies and gentlemen.

They can't do that to us. What I can't do while people play music in the middle. That never happens if we just move things. Not moving things is fine, but I can't have people in the way. of my song playing bam bam bam that wasn't so bad my performance time and like him as in the contract it was seven o'clock oh sure okay like the boss of the company told me what he said he said he said if you don't go on stage now I'll kill you myself guys in the back are you getting sound are you getting something good there you're doing well you're getting you're getting too much okay?

I'm going to try to narrow it down for you guys, I'm going to try to talk out of this side of my mouth every time I think I can keep doing this and then I just can't, I can't, I can't keep doing corporations. for the rest of my life you will be listening to South Africa's number one hip-hop station and I have exciting news for you all, for the first time ever Trevor Noah will be performing his Day Walker one man show at the Goldru City Lyric Theater Tripp has I've been in comedy for two or three years and I wouldn't normally recommend a comedian do a one-woman show at the stage of their career, usually like a year, two years itself.

You may be a funny guy, but are you strong enough as a comedian now that you like letting your opinions about the world come out and be evaluated and analyzed? That's the problem with young comedians. I haven't learned the art of comedy. It took me 20 years. For starters, they're trying to get it done in a year and a half, two years, it doesn't work as a comedian, you have to develop yourself and you know you find your voice and you find your feet and there's a certain kind of journey that everyone has to go through to get to a place.

On some level, there's still a lot more of his comedy that he could develop and improve, so Day Walker will be about my life, you know, and I hope it'll also be about country, I'm trying to make the show be everything I am, everything what I was and how I was influenced by everything and everyone around me. My comedy is based on my life growing up in South Africa, so for the biggest show I've ever done. It's nice to revisit all the people and places from my past to help me prepare my material. I've never been able to write my material.

I just come up with it and then I try to interpret it as much as possible and turn it into jokes thank you thank you cb thank you very much this is great there are more comedians than people relaxing watching the show we should have gone to each table and then picked one person and done like a individual session and I just told them the jokes, it would have been more effective except for you, because you were, but you see, this is the only place where we will say that because it's like a comedy, you know, that's that kind of place, this is where we are honest. to each other and being like that was horrible and you know that kind of thing, I could be horrible too, you know what I mean, and then it would be worse because I'm wearing a suit, so if I'm horrible in a suit, then them What's wrong with you?

They say yes, but he didn't seem serious, so it's better, so I'm ruined, so it could be absolutely horrible, it could be absolutely horrible, but we'll see a lot of things to talk about. so a little time, what should we talk about my life? Maybe I always think your life is a good place to start in South Africa. I grew up, I grew up in a world where we're very focused on race, I mean, we've only had democracy for 15 years, everyone has to have a very specific racial thing, you know you're black and you're white and then, don't be scared. , in South Africa they call me colored, which is not the derogatory term in South Africa.

South Africa means something totally different I grew up in a mixed family, well I'm the mixed race in the family so you know, my father is a Swiss white man, my mother is a mixed race black woman who was born in South Africa. That's how I came out like this and this was illegal at the time, you know you weren't, obviously you weren't allowed to have mixed relationships when I was born, obviously my mom and dad were rebellious, you know they had the whole vibe. my mom obviously had aspirations, she was like, yeah, I'm going to get a white man, yeah, and then my dad, well, you know how the Swiss love chocolate, so I mean, you know, no, I don't think so. that my parents considered me.

I don't think at all, I don't think they spent even a second thinking what color our son will be. I wanted a child and I thought and then I asked him to let me have a child. Muslims are moved. He didn't like it, but. He did it. Marriage was not on my agenda because in those days it was illegal for whites and blacks to cross color and be married. The apartheid laws did not allow me to even know a definitive date of when my parents separated. I only know that I stopped seeing my father when he moved to Cape Town.

I said you want me to help you with anything. Please tell me. The boy said: help me find my father. I think his last birthday card was on the 11th or 12th. There was no time left to see his father. He had my plans and I'm sure he had his plans there, so he couldn't move me to Switzerland. Sorry, I could choose, we would go to sunny Africa. There is no place like home. I live to the fullest. I enjoy going reckless. No. reserves you don't regret you learn you live but once that's how I know I don't cry about the past I'm very grateful and I'm at peace with my past yes, I don't lose who we are I agree ah I agree did I scratch you? darling and this is my brother his name is andrew seven years old what he does is nothing he just likes to break the rules amazing to see the criminals in South Africa it never ends it never ends that's why us honorable citizens just have to try and you know quell this we just have to try and we just have to try to stop the crime what are you doing? crime starts at home, I mean every black family you have, you have at least one brother that's going behind bars, you know, you know, I'm just saying I'm not trying to be that cat son, I'm just not trying to be that guy , man, but I'll visit you, you know what I mean, I'll see you when you're there, man Isaac, oh, do youthat I'm not even, yeah.

Nelson Mandela was like where do I forgive you, that's like that was the backstory, so my mom, my mom, couldn't tell who my father was in. my birth certificate, you know, so they had to leave all that in white and what happened was that she returned to the municipalities where we had to stay and then my dad had to stay in the city and my mom couldn't tell anyone. that her child's father was white, so she left everyone to their own assumptions, which is usually not the best option, basically people assumed I was albino, you

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When I got home, you know, my family was gathered around as I walked in, my grandmother looked in, opened the blanket and said: oh shame, oh little alby, don't put the umbrella up it's going to bend, so I grew up, I grew up for a a lot of my life as an albino, which wasn't bad, I mean, in the municipality they accept everyone as they are, you know, I was old enough to wander off on my own and the other albinos found out about me and would see me . walking down the streets and they saw this kid and then rumors spread, you know, apparently they ran into each other and started talking, they were like, do you know about him?

They say there is one, he is one of us, but his head is black. without freckles nothing and you can walk at any time of the day without sunscreen without an umbrella is the one who walks they were surprised and approached me and recruited me, they said, man, do you want to hang out with us? I said yes. Why not? You know, I dated them. We were like the whole team. We called ourselves the glow in the dark. So we'll let you know it was wonderful. You know it was wonderful until about 1990 when apartheid ended and the truth about. my identity was able to come out and then my mom told everyone in the house that she was like, you know, actually, her dad is white and they're like, what do you mean they're like her dad's white? , so he's not actually albino, he's colored and they were?

Like everyone lost their minds and it was a big party and everyone was so happy and full of joy, then they said oh oh oh oh, it's not alpine, it was beautiful, there was music to their ears, but then I had to go back to My friends from the team, you know they glow in the dark, he told them the news as he walked towards them. You know they were standing on the team like under the willow tree in the shade where we normally used to hang out and when I arrived. Upstairs, they were like me, da blue, what's up, doctor? 'cause they couldn't call me day walk, I was too long, they were like me, dw, what's up man, so I was like, hey pacino, what's up, dog, and he was like me, man, what's going on? luke said so i said yeah guys i have bad news. pacino said: ah, what's up? dw, what is it, this is really bad, it's like it's really bad, it's like ah, nivea is out of stock again. worse than that is worse than that another guy was like me clopalumi it's like no no it's not something I need to tell you guys um I'm not albino I just looked around and there was silence so guys, did you hear me?

I'm not albino, yeah, the dog, we know it, we all knew it, it's like what you knew, it's like, yeah, we knew it, of course you're not an albino like, wow, yeah, we're not all albinos, we're people , people, Jesus, oh, you guys have been great, thank you. Thank you very much for coming out of the closet. My name is Trevor Noah. Thank you, but you are the young and talented comedian from South Africa. Keep going, keep pushing people. That's what I do. That is what it is. I love life and I also love to live and I want to give.

Everything I can give I stopped because you were tired, you feel like you lost your power, but I depend on you to be as white as a flower, not to complain, not to know how cold the game is, but plain and simple. get it, but I depend on you being so resilient