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Trevor Noah

40 quotesFilm Actor · Born Feb 20, 1984 · South Africa · Male

Trevor Noah (born 20 February 1984) is a South African television and radio host, and comedian. Noah is the host of The Daily Show, a satirical news program on Comedy Central, since 28 September 2015. 2Early life Trevor Noah was born on 20 February 1984 in Johannesburg. His mother, Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah, is black and of Xhosa ethnicity, and his father, Robert, is white and of Swiss German ethnicity. When Trevor was 10 or 11 years old, his mother (although not the rest of the family) chose to convert to Judaism. Noah spent his early youth in the private school of Maryvale College, a Catholic school in Johannesburg. During his childhood, he attended Roman Catholic church every Sunday. His parents' relationship was illegal at the time of his birth under apartheid (extraracial sexual relations and marriages were legalized under the amended Immorality Act of 1985, a year after Noah was born). His mother was jailed and fined by the South African white minority government, and his father later moved back to Switzerland. Noah himself was raised by his mother and maternal grandmother, Nomalizo Frances Noa

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From “July 7, 2016 - Julia Stiles”

It seems that it's either pro-cop and anti-black or pro-black and anti-cop, when, in reality, you can be pro-cop and pro-black, which is what we should all be. It is what we should be aiming for.

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From “Trevor Noah: RNC Is Like Pokémon Go & We're Here To Catch Them All”

The convention is like where someone has put down a lure, and now there's just going to be Pokémon delegates popping up everywhere. We're here trying to catch them all

RNC Election 2016 Jokes convention Pokemon gotta catch em all

From “President Obama's Transgender Bathroom Backlash”

We’ve had this conversation, we’ve come to the same conclusion: we can progress. It is about discomfort, yes. But that’s what progress is about, it makes you uncomfortable.

From “Trevor Noah, Smooth Criminal”

I live in I live in South Africa. I’m proud to live there. I’ve always said I want to be a comedian from South Africa in the world. I will stay in places for a bit here and there and pop into New York for a while, maybe stay in London for a year, but my home will always be South Africa. I enjoy it…

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The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as…

comedy Laughter Social Justice

From “Interview”

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.

Race Racialism

From “Trevor Noah’s apartheid comedy and how it made him Jon Stewart’s unlikely successor”

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

comedy Persecution

From “Trevor Noah Has "Stolen Material," Says 'Last Comic Standing' Judge Russell Peters”

Nobody owns comedy. Nobody owns a premise. Nobody owns an idea.

comedy Plagiarism Joke Theft

From “Trevor Noah Sees Childhood Under Apartheid as License to Speak His Mind”

Africa's not a color—it's a place.

Africa Color Place Race

From “Trevor Noah on the Daily Show Twitter Backlash”

There's more outrage on Twitter about a One Direction split or about what one band member said to another than there is about institutionalized racism and something huge.

One Direction Twitter Social Media Outrage Institutionalized Racism

From “Between The Laughs, South African Comedian Hopes To Educate”

I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix in South Africa. And this was obviously awkward because I grew up in a mixed family. My mother's a black woman, South African Xhosa woman...and my father's Swiss, from Switzerland.

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From “Born a Crime”

People are willing to accept you if they see you as an outsider trying to assimilate into their world. But when they see you as a fellow tribe member attempting to disavow the tribe, that is something they will never forgive.

Outsiders Assimilation Tribalism

I fell in love with McDonald's. McDonald's, to me, tasted like America. McDonald's is America. You see it advertised and it looks amazing. You crave it. You buy it. You take your first bite, and it blows your mind. It's even better than you imagined. Then, halfway through, you realize it's not all…

McDonald's America taste Craving

As a kid I understood that people were different colors, but in my head white and black and brown were like types of chocolate. Dad was the white chocolate, mom was the dark chocolate, and I was the milk chocolate. But we were all just chocolate.

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Nearly one million people lived in Soweto. Ninety-nine point nine percent of them were black—and then there was me. I was famous in my neighborhood just because of the color of my skin. I was so unique people would give directions using me as a landmark. ‘The house on Makhalima Street. At the corner…

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When you shit, as you first sit down, you’re not fully in the experience yet. You are not yet a shitting person. You’re transitioning from a person about to shit to a person who is shitting. You don’t whip out your smartphone or a newspaper right away. It takes a minute to get the first shit out of…

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In any society built on institutionalized racism, race mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent. Race mixing proves that races can mix, and in a lot of cases want to mix. Because a mixed person embodies that rebuke to the logic of…

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The hood made me realise that crime succeeds because crime does the one thing the government doesn’t do: crime cares. Crime is grassroots. Crime looks for the young kids who need support and a lifting hand. Crime offers internship programmes and part-time jobs and opportunities for advancement.…

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A dog is a great thing for a kid to have. It's like a bicycle but with emotions.

Dogs kids Bicycles

But the real world doesn't go away. Racism exists. People are getting hurt. And just because it's not happening to you, doesn't mean it's not happening. And at some point you have to choose; black or white, pick a side. You can try to hide from it. You can say, oh I don't take sides, but at some…

racism Reality Pick a Side Black or White Binary Thinking

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