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. - Trevor Noah 1 Share Now -
My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in jail. - Trevor Noah 2 Share Now -
I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them. - Trevor Noah 3 Share Now -
My mom, through my dad, rented the apartment next door to his... he had the lease on both places. But then, she would dress up and act like his maid... a practical maid. No fantasies. - Trevor Noah 4 Share Now -
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. - Trevor Noah 5 Share Now -
My mom, through my dad, rented the apartment next door to his... he had the lease on both places. But then, she would dress up and act like his maid... a practical maid. No fantasies. - Trevor Noah 6 Share Now -
Most of my show is true; like, 90% of everything I say on stage is true. I just have to find the way to make it funny - that's the difficult thing. - Trevor Noah 7 Share Now -
I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix in South Africa. And this was obviously awkward because I grew up in a mixed family. My mother's a black woman, South African Xhosa woman... and my father's Swiss, from Switzerland. - Trevor Noah 8 Share Now -
The truth is, people don't know me. When people don't know you, they're going to try to get to know you as quickly as possible, because you're now taking the place of somebody that they love dearly, or somebody that they hate sincerely, and so they need to know who you are. - Trevor Noah 9 Share Now -
My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in jail. - Trevor Noah 10 Share Now -
