Pretty solid. I hope he stays a while.

http://on.cc.com/1q0FpMb

funny dude

Daily Show gig and was pleasantly surprised. It was really funny. He has great stage presence and was very at ease.

Dude's legitimately funny.




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His jokes about Af-Ams notions of Africa didn't go over well last time.

>His jokes about Af-Ams notions of Africa didn't go over well
>last time.

How Jerrod Carmichael got an HBO special before him boggles my mind. I hope he does a Netflix special or something soon

and called Spike Lee and asked him to direct it.


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Look at me I'm african not black America is so weird lulz

Desus is funnier then this clown and desus ain't that damn funny

>Look at me I'm african not black America is so weird lulz
>
>Desus is funnier then this clown and desus ain't that damn
>funny

desus is hilarious

i think trevor noah is hilarious
and his skit was more look at me i am african not american.

I got the point asshats the nigga ain't funny. Period. He comes off like a stiff typically over educated African lecturing. If I wanted to hear that bullshit, I'd jam some fela. Now both if you amscray

>I got the point asshats the nigga ain't funny. Period. He
>comes off like a stiff typically over educated African
>lecturing. If I wanted to hear that bullshit, I'd jam some
>fela. Now both if you amscray

and here you are projecting.

and now you are just playing if you are putting fela in the 'stiff typically overeducated African' category.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCpua4dvUXs

http://nigeriamusicbox.com/fela-kutis-songs-lyrics/

fela!
very relevant today

Homey was singing his heart out and making it plain with this one.

thanks.


does it really matter?

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He was in Australia talking about those sun baked bogans.

Lighten up, darky.

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts..." -The Bard

i wasn't blown away but I'm sure in time he'll be funnier.

Then again, he's always been hit or miss with me regarding his comedy so I'm not as jazzed with him like others are...

but these race jokes he dropped did hit. I chuckled in parts...

And part of me calling it has to do with CC's thinking that Larry Wilmore would be an adequate replacement for Stephen Colbert.

And I like Larry Wilmore. He would have been great on MSNBC.

But these two brothers are about to take the fall for the decline of CC late night. I think who ever was tapped to replace Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert was bound to pull a Deborah Norville.

I think the right way to have done it would have been rotating hosts for like a couple of years until audiences coalesce around one host.



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"One of the most important things in life is what Judge Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you're

and ive never really cared for larry wilmore (or stephen colbert)


jon oliver still the best (after stewart)

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This guy is just weak to me

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"One of the most important things in life is what Judge Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you're

Larry's at least better than that

it's unlike anything you can possibly do without actually doing it.

It's not like being a correspondent.

It's not like standup.

It's not like sketch.

It's not like improv.

There are way too many elements that go into what John Oliver, Larry Wilmore, Colbert, and J-Stew does that make them good.

I liked J-Stew as a host of a talk show before he got on the Daily Show, but it's still not the same thing.

I hope the correspondents stay on for Noah's show. At least Jessica.

It was okay. I find Larry pretty boring on his show too. I honestly dont know who would be a good replacement but so far im not really liking Trevor on this format yet. I dig his standup tho.




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Tons of work just to be compared to Jon Stewart.

Rock would have been awesome for a year but they really need to save the 2016 election for whoever the main person will be because it will be sooo much exposure.

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"One of the most important things in life is what Judge Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you're

it would have created some excitement. and made the transition easier since we know it's temporary.

Plus i love Rock's brain, and his way of breaking things down

seems they already cut the panel size down and dropped some of weaker gags they debuted with

keep tweeking it imo



noah will probably grow into it, tho jessica w still woulda been the best fit
oliver is not that good but he benefits from having a week to put the show together, diff budget, and no censors

Jessica didn't want it. Too bad we didn't get Rock, though.

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"One of the most important things in life is what Judge Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you're

She said immediately found him smug.

Now I find this to be more than just gossip because...well he comes off a smug in his stand-up and I am going to predict here and now that this will be his biggest criticism going forward.

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"One of the most important things in life is what Judge Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you're

That in and of itself isn't the problem. People just want more Jon Stewart.

Trevor was smug to a chick (allegedly) now that's gonna be his demise as host of the Daily Show.

>Trevor was smug to a chick (allegedly) now that's gonna be
>his demise as host of the Daily Show.

Thats the story and they are sticking to it!

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I can not put my finger on what about him annoys me (maybe it's the killer combo of light skin and african smugness) but he irritates me to no end. Then he says stuff like this.


http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/09/15/trevor_noah_s_comments_on_the_vanity_fair_photo_show_he_doesn_t_understand.html


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or the subtleties involved.

Not to say an outsider cannot get it; its why I think John Oliver does so well with his “WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!?!?” version of the daily show that’s consistently great on HBO. But I agree with you on the smugness. The funny thing is I don’t think he comes with an angle that’s wrong per say: he’s not some sellout right winger who doesn’t believe in race or gender issues. But I remember hearing him talk about growing up in hardcore Aparthied and I think that’s why he Kanye shrugs some of the equality issues we want him to get a bit more forceful with.

To him, a few women comedians having a good year is ‘good enough’ and thus sweating them getting locked out of late night talk shows isn’t that big a deal...its not like the real shit he had to deal with. Like I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't get redlining/prison industrial complex etc on some "When I grew up you would get arrested for being in a white neighborhood, at least you got a chance to here, why you whining now?"

However, I have a sneaking suspicion he’s gonna get it after awhile; Hollywood does a great job of giving people their 'lolz, don't get it twisted, you still black' reality check.

That said, the Nightly Show is coming into its own and it’s unfortunate Larry Wilmore didn’t get the Daily Show slot; he would have been perfect out the gate instead of having to totally rework the Cobert show while finding his footing.

go over well.


AA audiences will not get down with, "Yall got it good, it's not so bad" POV.

I think liberal audiences in general aren't interested in that POV.

Also I don't think Hollywood is going to help that POV. That's where all that New Black ish comes from.

I should also admit I had one acquaintance who described and interaction with him that has totally fueled my dislike of him.

>or the subtleties involved.
>
>Not to say an outsider cannot get it; its why I think John
>Oliver does so well with his “WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU
>PEOPLE!?!?” version of the daily show that’s consistently
>great on HBO. But I agree with you on the smugness. The
>funny thing is I don’t think he comes with an angle that’s
>wrong per say: he’s not some sellout right winger who
>doesn’t believe in race or gender issues. But I remember
>hearing him talk about growing up in hardcore Aparthied and I
>think that’s why he Kanye shrugs some of the equality issues
>we want him to get a bit more forceful with.
>
>To him, a few women comedians having a good year is ‘good
>enough’ and thus sweating them getting locked out of late
>night talk shows isn’t that big a deal...its not like the
>real shit he had to deal with. Like his views of race are
>probably racism 4.0 Jim Crow and I wouldn't be surprised if he
>doesn't get redlining/prison industrial complex etc on some
>"When I grew up you would get arrested for being in a white
>neighborhood, at least you got a chance to here, why you
>whining now?"
>
>I have a sneaking suspicion he’s gonna get it after awhile;
>Hollywood does a great job of giving people their 'lolz, don't
>get it twisted, you still black' reality check.
>
>That said, the Nightly Show is coming into its own and it’s
>unfortunate Larry Wilmore didn’t get the Daily Show slot; he
>would have been perfect.
>


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y'all really want to go with this?



and above "i hate his accent"
but john oliver now thats a good accent...


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and instead of being like, "yeah, television is racist" said "Hey, at least two black guys made it" and shrugged over sexism in above article buddy posted.

Like I said above, Larry Wilmore probably should have gotten the job.

who wasn't that damn funny


I like Larry As well
There's room for more than one black guy
esp one from overseas
Esp with John Oliver sitting on a show

Yall have to stop doing this to yourselves


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Check out this recent interview with Entertainment Weekly that does a good job of giving some perspective on him.

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/14/daily-show-trevor-noah-twitter-controversy-interview

The Daily Show host Trevor Noah talks Twitter controversy: 'We live in a world of faux outrage'

'You went back three years to find the tweets! ... Haven’t I changed?'

BY MELISSA MAERZ


Posted September 14 2015 — 6:52 PM EDT

When it was announced last March that a relatively unknown comic from South Africa would be replacing beloved icon Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show on Sept. 28, there was a collective “Who’s that?” So we decided to get to know the 31-year-old a little better and ask him some questions as tough as the ones he’ll be asking. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Trevor Noah.


ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You grew up in South Africa during ­apartheid as the son of a black mother and a white father. In your routines, you say that you were “born a crime.” What was that experience like?

TREVOR NOAH: It was a normal experience because it was the only experience I had. As a child, not that you don’t know your own suffering, but if it’s the norm, you don’t believe that it’s an extreme version of life.

EW: When your mother was stopped by the cops, she pretended you didn’t belong to her, almost as if she’d been caught with a stash of drugs and pretended they weren’t hers. You must’ve known that that was a different experience?

No, I genuinely didn’t. You know, I didn’t see my dad in public, but my other friends didn’t see their dads in public either. Some of them didn’t even know their dads. So in your mind, there’s many variations on what a dad is. You just think this is normal. It’s like if you grow up in a neighborhood where there’s crackheads, you don’t think crackheads are the weirdest thing — until you learn that there are places in the world where there are no crackheads running around.

EW: When did you realize that your situation was different?

Maybe when I was 10 or 11 years old. When kids ask you questions like, “Why is your dad white?” and these are questions you’ve never asked. As children, you don’t think, that’s the black crowd and that’s the white crowd. You just hang out. And then over time you’re taught who your social circle is and you start to minimize that circle and make it less diverse. So that’s when I started thinking, “Oh, I’m different, and that group of people is very different. Which group of people do I most relate to?”

EW: Which group did you most relate to?

I grew up in a black neighborhood. Black is the only experience I know intrinsically. But I can associate with white, because my dad is white. I’ve got friends who had no contact with white people whatsoever, so for them, white is the most foreign concept in the world. When I first moved out here to the United States, my only friend was a white Jewish guy from Pasadena. We’re still friends to this day. He directed my DVD specials both in South Africa and the U.S.

EW: What was the stand-up comedy scene like for you in South Africa? I read that comedy there is way more confrontational than it is in America, especially when it comes to talking about race.

Yes. We’ve had democracy for 20 years. That’s not a long time. All the comedians had an explosion of free speech, so people wanted to talk about race and politics in a world where we were never allowed to speak about that. I was always fascinated when I would watch comics from America and a guy would be complaining about how a bottle of milk opens. It was like, “Wow! I want to get to a place where the biggest problem in my life is the fact that the milk doesn’t open the way that I want it to! That’s a great life!” For me, I can do mundane comedy, but it’s like, is this really what I’m worried about? I’m not worried about milk. I’m worried about police brutality.

EW: When Comedy Central announced you as The Daily Show’s next host, some people complained that your early tweets were sexist or racist. Do you think we’re too eager to police comedy in this country?

Definitely. I understand where it comes from. But people would say, “Are you going to change?” And I’d say, “You went back three years to find the tweets! If I haven’t repeated those things, haven’t I changed?” If you look back three years and you’re not disappointed in who you were then, you’re not progressing.

But we live in a world of faux outrage. It’s hashtag this, hashtag that. There are people who jump onto trends before they even know what the trend is about. People want to be part of the good, but they don’t want to put the work in, so they think, “Can’t I just say that I agree?” Then you have an artificial inflation of what the problem is. All of the sudden you get all of these big scandals, but they’re not big, because everyone is on the periphery of the argument.

In South Africa, we have that in the rawest form: mob justice. In the townships, they’ve lost faith in the police, so they’ll exact a punishment themselves. One person catches a thief, and within then minutes, 50 people are beating up the thief. Some people are just walking past; they don’t know why the person is being beaten up! But they think, “You must be there for a reason.” It’s a place to let out your inner anger.

EW: When Jon Stewart started at The Daily Show, he targeted Fox News and right-wing talking points. How would you describe the political culture that you’ll be focusing on?

We’re coming to the end of a racial honeymoon. When Obama came into power, people went, “Maybe there is hope!” The same thing happened in South Africa. We got our first black president, and it was like, “Yeah!” But then you realize that it’s easier to vote a black man into power than it is to give all minorities the freedom they deserve. It’s a very tough realization when you’re like, that was just the first step. Right now America’s dealing with a lot of pent-up frustration and pain.

EW: Jon Stewart mostly covered cable news, but you’ve said you’ll cover BuzzFeed and Gawker, too. Does that mean you’ll critique media more generally, not just political coverage?

Politics, media, anything. Like I’m always amused by Vice. Sometimes it’s less about the news and more about “Look, we found 2-year-old babies that smoke!” Stuff like that is easy to satirize, because that’s really the role of The Daily Show, to sift through what should be news and what shouldn’t.

EW: The Daily Show has always been fairly left-of-center politically. Which way do you lean? Far left? More to the center?

I never grew up with those terms. We don’t have “progressive” and “conservative” . Even the word conservative is strange to me, because it implies that you’re against progress. So, Cecil the Lion — when I look at that story, I’m not going, “What is the left’s angle? What is the right’s?” I’m going, “What is the truth in this thing?” People hunt for sport all the time. We’re gonna make it seem like we’ve never walked past a bar that’s got buffalo heads in it? Then you realize, well, maybe it’s people finding an outlet for rage about police brutality. It’s like, “This poor lion did nothing! You just went out of your way to kill that lion!” It’s like the universe gave us a metaphor.

EW: You’re working with the same executive producers as Jon Stewart and many of the same writers. Is it important to you to have a more diverse writers’ room?

Definitely. Right now, we only have one writer of color, so that’s something that I’m definitely going to look to improve. At the same time, I would rather wait for the right person than just slot someone in because they’re a minority. You’re doing yourself and them a disservice if you’re putting someone in a position where they don’t have the ability to thrive, because then people go, “Oh, well, I guess that’s why we don’t have many minority writers!”

EW: When I asked Jon Stewart why late-night writers’ rooms aren’t more diverse, he said, very honestly, that people generally hire people they know. It’s a self-perpetuating problem. So when you come into an environment where most experienced staff writers are white men — even if they’re mostly very talented white men — how do you make those rooms more inclusive without specifically looking to hire someone who’s not a white man?

Well, that’s the thing. You have to realize is that it’s reflective of a segregation that’s in society. You ask very liberal white people, “Do you have any black friends?” And they’ll go, “Actually I don’t.” So that becomes part of the issue. I think the key is to let it happen organically. Obviously, I’m more likely to know black comedians and black writers, so already it’s not a stretch for me. I just reach out to the people I know already.

EW: When people analyze your time at The Daily Show, as they’ve been analyzing Stewart’s, what do you hope they’ll say?

Most important, I would love for them to say, “Who would’ve thought that after all this time, that show’s still funny?” Then, if people can say, “We thought of things differently because of him,” or, “We had conversations we never would’ve had because of him.” I want people to say, “He made a positive change in the world.”

EW: That’s interesting, because I think there’s an overemphasis on positivity in late-night right now. Jimmy Fallon is so likable, but he doesn’t ask tough questions. When late-night hosts come from overseas, their tone often changes. James Corden was very sarcastic when he was in the U.K., and now he’s very upbeat.

It depends on your personality. Fallon — he’s just doing Fallon. Leno is the same. I would argue that they got those jobs because they’re extremely likable. The U.K. is a very dark, sarcastic place. Corden might just know that’s not welcome here. In South Africa, we’re not dark. We’re just open. I’m not trying to offend people, but there’s a funny side of everything. Nelson Mandela laughed a lot. If you can laugh when you think you’re going to be in jail for the rest of your life, I don’t think anyone has an excuse to say there’s nothing to laugh about. There’s always something to laugh about.

Most of the black South African accents most of us have been exposed to don't sound like his. He sounds like one of the characters from Lethal Weapon 2, and it's jarring.

Coz that ain't it.

Like, at all.

>Coz that ain't it.
>
>Like, at all.

Dammit let them do it to themselves

Because again John Oliver's accent
Way better
Of course
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I don't know WTF was going on to make Jon leave but I don't like it.

and just the fact that he was seen as that by so many. as good as he was at exposing bullshit, and how ridiculous so-called real news was, he did what he could by poking fun at it, only to watch the mountain of bullshit out there get worse. it has to be pretty taxing. probably part of why he's aged at a president's pace.

I still say the right way to do it was rotate a bunch of people over the course of a couple of years and see who the crowd reacts to.

Or even do co-host.

This choice just seems forced on us.

But then, before he started sub'ing for Jon Stewart I don't think I would have guessed Oliver would be the break out star.


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changed at all except for who is reading the jokes off the prompter.

Can't blame him.
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it didn't really become Jon's show for quite some time.

but he's doing just fine

written by that writer staff.

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http://www.salon.com/2015/11/24/trevor_noahs_just_not_funny_the_daily_show_is_a_trainwreck_i_know_because_i_watch_for_a_living/


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"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

i do feel like he's kinda lacking though

his delivery is decent, and the writing is clearly the same, but he still feels like a stand-in. in fact the writing being the same may be part of the problem, because before we kind of got the illusion that Stewart was coming up with all this shit, even if we knew he wasn't. or maybe it's just me, i dunno.

she also talks about his new 'sub-par' correspondents. Roy Wood Jr has been a bright spot so far. Desi Lydic has been decent. Hasan Manaj and the asian dude.. yeah they've been kind of ehh.

i still like it. but i don't watch ass religiously as before.

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"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Combine that with a new, relatively unknown host and yeah - that'll happen.

....in a piece that contains the following line???:

"'The Daily Show’s' ratings have fallen like a drunk heckler slipping on watermelon guts at a Gallagher show."

Nah.

.

the height was during the mid-2000s


when Stewart and the show were an important voice in American satire.

cause their were so many assholes hating on Obama it made for good jokes...

I can't get past dudes accent...

The level of bullshit seemed to increase. We had the rise of the tea party, CNN and other so-called legit news sources became even more ridiculous. Plus there was so much footage to go back and reference every time fox shit on Obama for something they had previously defended Bush for.

>cause their were so many assholes hating on Obama it made for
>good jokes...

It DOES feel like he's a fill-in, temporary host, though.

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Flip it enough? Flip these. Flip off. Go flip some f*cking burgers.(c)Kno

Allied State of the National Electric Beat Treaty Organization (NEBTO)

I havent ever been a religious watcher of the Daily Show, but I did like it with JS. I watched the new guy for a bit last night and it just wasn't really funny or good IMO. As long as Last Week Tonight is on I have no reason to watch the Daily Show.

the writers not changing at all is a problem though

jon stewart got folks believing he was that funny all on his own by being on the job 15 years

Trevor will be fine in another year especially if they tweek the writing a bit for his delivery

http://www.salon.com/2016/03/01/please_give_samantha_bee_the_daily_show_they_squandered_jon_stewarts_legacy_by_giving_the_show_to_the_wrong_host/

But wouldn't it be too transparent to dump the black guy for the woman this election year?


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"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

from jump, it appears she might get as good at these viral quick hits as oliver is. she's not there yet, but she's close.

the commercials and segments are on point, even if i'm not a fan of her delivery.

which my assumption is what noah-hosting-the-daily show was supposed to produce. they were supposed to be relevant on the internets, right?