Fortunately soon the book will be out in the world and out of my hands.
I try and concentrate on saying things that are interesting and funny and true.īecause of your hosting duties on “The Daily Show,” how difficult are you finding it to juggle a book tour for “Born a Crime” at the same time? And when you’ve got Americans on the Internet, you can forget about nuance completely. I’ve learned that Americans don’t do nuance very well, either. But the Internet doesn’t do nuance very well. Some jokes you need to sit with for a while before they sink in. It’s unfortunate that the success of something is judged on how quickly it goes viral, or how violently it “eviscerates.” Real truth and real insight are nuanced. When you eviscerate Donald Trump on TV, and that goes viral on YouTube and Facebook, do you ever think about making “The Daily Show” viral-ready? Part of the Internet ecosystem is to make what airs on television go viral the next day. I go to her house and tell jokes and stories at dinner she doesn’t need to buy a ticket like everyone else. She’s happy for my success, both in America and elsewhere, but she’s not particularly invested in “Trevor Noah” as a public person. The doctor described her survival as a “miracle.” How is your mother doing now, and how does she feel about your success in America?
In “Born a Crime,” you recall the time, in 2009, when your stepfather shot your mother in the face. 13 at the 2016 Miami Book Fair International. Trevor Noah, the host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, remembers his South African childhood in his memoir “Born a Crime.” Noah will appear Nov. They sheepishly apologized and retreated. He smiled, whipped around, and asked in Xhosa to join the muggers in attacking someone else.
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The muggers, judging Noah’s light skin tone, believed he only spoke English. A group of muggers approached Noah from behind, muttering in Xhosa, his mother’s language. During one of these excursions at 12 years old, he encountered in-your-face racism for the first time. 15 by Penguin Random House), Noah recalls his Soweto upbringing in an “elevated hut with no running water.” Forced by his mother to remain indoors during his childhood because it was illegal to be mixed-race under apartheid, Noah sometimes wandered outdoors. In one anecdote near the start of “Born a Crime,” (to be published Nov. On Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” comedian Trevor Noah has carved out a place as an incredulous outsider of American politics, a South African transplant equally comfortable satirizing racism abroad and fear-mongering in the United States.īut as the son of a white Swiss father and a black mother who grew up in South Africa under apartheid, Noah, 32, has a lifetime of experience being the outsider, he writes in his memoir “Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood.”
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