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Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.
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Trevor Noah
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: February 20
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Disc Jockey
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Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
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When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.
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In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American context.
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Donald Trump does not take criticism well, nor does he appreciate reporting on his life.
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Traveling the world I've learned that progressives, regardless of their locations, think in a global space.
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People were encouraged to snitch. [South Africa] was a police state, so there were police everywhere. There were undercover police. There were uniformed police. The state was being surveilled the entire time.
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Even now in America, you know, when people say they hate immigrants, they're not referring to a Canadian immigrant. You know, they're not referring to somebody who has an accent who's slightly different to theirs.
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If you can't trust your president to get the right information on a Googleable fact, then can you really trust him with the harder stuff? Which, by the way, is everything else the president of the United States has to deal with.
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It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.
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There's news that happens in different spheres and can be made just as funny, but it's not necessarily in the normal news medium.
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I think we need to get rid of is improving our minds and our mental health. You know, when when you suffer from depression, you go this is something that I have and I can work on it, you know? I often think of depression, though, as more of a - as more of a symptom than a cause.
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[ My mother] went, OK, I've read the Bible. I've read the Bible again. I'm reading the Bible again. OK, let me - where does this Bible come from? What does this Old Testament speak - who are the Israelites? Who - what is Judaism? And then she went, and I'm going to study that. And, you know, she wanted to almost get to the core.
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Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world.
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If the police believed that they were planning any form of resistance against the state, then you were just gone. Nobody knew where you were, and you just hoped to see that family member again.
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Nelson Mandela was in jail when I was really young, and Winnie Mandela was one of the biggest faces of the movement. In South Africa we have a common phrase - it's like a chant in the street and at rallies: Wathint' abafazi, wathint' imbokodo. Which means, You strike a woman, you strike a rock.
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Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.
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I lived my life as a - as a part-white, part-black but then sometimes-Jewish kid.
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I think it's despicable. I also think it's frightening that we seem to live through history over and over again. And I don't know if I'm the only one. I feel like, when you read through history books, you always judge those people in that time.
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I don't think I, myself, am personally afraid. I do worry for the press, though, because Donald Trump has shown himself to be extremely thin-skinned. He does not take criticism well, nor does he appreciate reporting on his life.
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I actually think this whole Brexit thing in the U.K. was a welcome example of being straightforward. With the candidates pulling out quickly, there's no stringing the people along.
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Donald Trump was appealing to a lot of people with his populist message.
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