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Trevor Noah Biography

Trevor Noah (born 20 February 1984) is a South African comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. He is best known for being the host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central since September 2015.

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We always look at gerrymandering and what it has done to voting in America, but what I realized the other day is that the news has somehow become gerrymandered and is continuing to be gerrymandered in America.

America, Gerrymandering, Look, Looks, News, Voting

I'm always fascinated when people say, "We found rude conversations people had via e-mail. " Why are you e-mailing this stuff? It has your signature on it! It has a time stamp!

Found, People, Rude, Signatures, Time

One of the people from my online team said he didn't notice - almost immediately after the [Donald] Trump victory within the following days, he noticed that there was a severe spike in hateful messages that were coming towards me.

Coming, People, Team, Victory

I don't even remember hearing about [Immorality Act of 1927]. I just knew about it. I was born into it, so I don't remember my parents ever saying it to me. I don't remember a conversation ever being had around this. I just knew this to be the law because that's what I was growing up in during that time in South Africa.

1927, Act, Growing Up, Law, Parent

Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.

Govern, Language, People, Thinking

When you hear somebody speaking in an accent, it's almost like they're invading your language while they're speaking to you because if you hear someone speak another language, you almost don't care. But when they speak your language with an accent, it feels like an invasion of something that belongs to you. And, immediately, we change.

Belongs, Care, Invading, Invasion, Language, Speak

I do feel like I have a sense of the times. A lot of the things America is experiencing now, I feel like I have lived through. I think there is a cause for concern.

America, Causes, Like, Lived, Things, Thinking

Those were the places where many people mixed if they wanted to mix, which was against the law [ Immorality Act of 1927]. My mother was part of that group. My father was part of that group. People who were black and whites and Indian and Asian - and you came together and said, we choose to mix at the risk of being arrested. And so they did.

Black And White, Father, Immorality, Indian, Mixed, Mother

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.

Different, Happens, News, Normal, Spheres

My mother's always looking for answers. She's always searching for new information. I think she has a thirst for hunger that very few possess innately.

Answers, Mother, Think, Thinking, Thirst

I think it was something I inherited from my mother, who learned to do it. You know, I, like a baby duckling, was merely mimicking the survival traits that my mother possessed. And I came to learn very quickly that language was a powerful, powerful tool.

Baby, Learn, Like, Mother, Powerful

In America, to have news that has explicitly taken a position is a very strange place to be in, and it's a very dangerous place to be in. And that's happening on Facebook, as you saw, and that's happening online. People are just being given their news and not the news, which is really, really scary.

America, Explicitly, Given, Strange, Strange Places, Taken

My mother converted, my mom converted to Judaism.

Judaism, Mom, Mother, My Mom

I knew of like - I remember, for most of my life, I grew up, and "Knight Rider" was, you know - David Hasselhoff was a Dutch character in my world.

Character, Grew, Hasselhoff, Knights, World

I often feel like the woman in your life is your driving force. She's your muse. She plays a big role in determining how confident you feel when you walk out the door. She can add 1,000 kilowatts of energy - or drain that out of you. She said, "No, you're not that funny. " I thought, She knows better than anyone.

Add, Doors, Energy, Funny, Muse, Play

They said [on a day show], oh, you can't do a Chinese accent. That's - and I said, I'm not doing a Chinese accent. I'm doing my friend's accent. And they said, yeah, you can't do that. And I said, OK, but can I do a Russian accent? And they said, yeah, yeah, of course, you can do that. I said, and a British accent? They said, yeah, go ahead. And I couldn't understand.

Accents, Ahead, Chinese, Russian, Show, Yeah

It was just how my parents treated me. It was the world they decided to show me. I was really sheltered. My grandmother kept me locked in the house when I was staying, you know, with the family in Soweto. And every household, for instance, had to have a registry of everyone who lived in that house.

Everyone, Grandmother, House, Household, Parent

I speak English, obviously, Afrikaans, which is a derivative of Dutch that we have in South Africa. And then I speak African languages. So I speak Zulu. I speak Xhosa. I speak Tswana. And I speak Tsonga. And like - so those are my languages of the core. And then I don't claim German, but I can have a conversation in it. So I'm trying to make that officially my seventh language. And then, hopefully, I can learn Spanish.

Dutch, Spanish, Speak English, Trying, Tswana, Zulu

Now everyone has eyes, and now everyone has evidence. That's really changed how we tell the news and what we get from it.

Changed, Everyone, Evidence, Eye, Eyes, News

I just had - we had instances - like, for instance, when I turned 13, she threw me a bar mitzvah. But nobody came. But nobody came because nobody knew what the hell that was. I only had black friends. No one knows what the hell you're doing.

Bars, Black, Instances, Like, Mitzvah, Threw

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