South African - Comedian | February 20, 1984 -
America was a thing I saw on TV - that wasn't a real world. That wasn't within my realm of dreaming.
Trevor Noah
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My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in jail.
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Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.
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I'm literally driving in the middle of the night, and my phone rings, and my manager says, 'How would you like to be the host of the Daily Show?' I get out the car, and I didn't have legs. You know in those movies where there's an explosion? But instead of the sound of the explosion, you hear the silence. That's literally what happened.
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What I've always said about comedy is if you do it in the right way, you can say anything to anybody because they know where you're coming from. They know it's not malicious.
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I'm not a confrontational person or comedian. I think we can explore more things if one of us is not fighting with the other. I take it easy. But I do like comedians who are very different from myself: I love dry comics with deadpan one-liners. I look on and think, 'That's amazing; why didn't I think of that?'
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I've never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it.
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I don't know how to let loose when I'm dancing to the music and the people that made the music are watching me. I've never felt so much pressure in my life.
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If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.
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I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord.
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If you laugh with somebody, then you know you share something.
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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.
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