‘Daily Show’s Trevor Noah Says America Suffers from ‘Institutionalized Racial Segregation’
Trevor Noah believes America suffers from a level of institutionalized racial segregation.
Trevor Noah believes America suffers from a level of institutionalized racial segregation.
Anyone who knows anything about Late Night is well aware that pre-planned “bits” are part of the deal. The guests, especially comedians, are required to come up with a funny story or series of jokes. In many cases the producers
Trevor Noah will have some big shoes to fill when The Daily Show returns to Comedy Central next month, although you wouldn’t know it by watching his introductory promo.
On Thursday night, Comedy Central mainstay Jon Stewart will sign off of his program, The Daily Show, for the last time. Stewart, 52, has been the key face for the entire network for 16 years; his replacement, Trevor Noah, will not come close to replacing his idolized status.
Incoming Daily Show host Trevor Noah told a roomful of television reporters Wednesday that the Comedy Central staple will take a new approach when he steps in for the outgoing Jon Stewart later this year–it won’t bash Fox News as much.
Despite a number of allegedly homophobic, fat, anti-Semitic, and racist jokes posted on comedian Trevor Noah’s Twitter account over the years, Viacom head Doug Herzof said Monday the Daily Show heir was never without the company’s support.
After 17 years at the helm, Jon Stewart revealed Monday night he would host The Daily Show for the last time on August 6.
Daily Show successor Trevor Noah has been scrutinized for his joke choices since an announcement he would take over for Jon Stewart later this year, but now he is being accused of stealing his material, altogether. Channel NewsAsia recently sat
Embattled Daily Show successor Trevor Noah’s stepfather once attempted to hunt him down and kill him after shooting his mother in the face.
Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld said that he isn’t offended by new “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah’s controversial tweets, but doubts that Noah would still have a job if he was a conservative on Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Five.”
Trevor Noah had barely endured 12 hours of conservative criticism about his past Twitter comments when the left began to voice its outrage, as well. Liberal critics focused in particular on Noah’s jokes about women. Yet while both left and right seized on Noah’s Twitter feed, the spirit of criticism was not quite the same for each.
The left-wing Comedy Central released a statement Tuesday in defense of Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” replacement Trevor Noah and a series of jokes that the likes of a Comedy Central would immediately condemn as racist if they were told by
Trevor Noah, Jon Stewart’s already embattled replacement as host of the left-wing Daily Show, used his verified Twitter account to respond the firestorm over a series of his older tweets that mocked Jews, Asians, women, and gays. The tweet read,
The new breed of enforced intellectual conformity is so tedious and shrill. Fascists don’t even bother to put on snappy uniforms any more.
Trevor Noah, the 31 year-old South African comedian hand-picked by Jon Stewart and Comedy Central to replace Stewart, has a major Twitter problem on his hands. Being shot to superstardom often results in an instantaneous social media vetting, something Noah,
Trevor Noah, the newly-named replacement for Jon Steward on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, is still an unknown quantity to many Americans. Curious fans and critics, eager to learn more about the South African comedian, have been combing the Internet for clues, and have turned up troubling comments about Israel and Jews that have some wondering if the new host will, like Stewart (Leibowitz), take to hiding his Jewish-sounding name to avoid controversy. (I kid.)
South African comedian Timothy Noah has been named to succeed Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central. Noah is talented and funny, and as a fellow native son of South Africa, I wish him well. Unfortunately, Noah is a mismatch for the show. Stewart would be a tough act to follow in any circumstances, but Noah lacks any obvious fluency in American politics or media, and his specialty in racial and ethnic humor suggest that his repertoire will remain limited.