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Trevor Noah

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South African comedian and television host

South AfricaComediansBorn 1984 · age 42
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Fame81.2
Momentum10.0
Reach4.6M
Languages30
Peak2010s
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The South African who inherited Jon Stewart's chair at The Daily Show in 2015 and held it for seven years, threading apartheid-era childhood stories into American political satire for an audience that wasn't sure a foreigner could pull it off.

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Trevor Noah
said · Oct 17, 2024
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I hear people all the time go like "I'm gonna put my head down and I'm gonna crush it!" Okay, alone? Good luck.

Interview with The Diary of a CEO - Trevor Noah: My Depression Was Linked To ADHD! Why I Left The Daily Show! (17 October 2024)

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Trevor Noah
said · Oct 17, 2024
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[If] you read the news once a week, I promise you, you'll be as informed as somebody who's reading it every single day. You know why?

Interview with The Diary of a CEO - Trevor Noah: My Depression Was Linked To ADHD! Why I Left The Daily Show! (17 October 2024)

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Trevor Noah
said · May 30, 2024
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I think sometimes it's hard for us to think about the possibility of a better future because we haven't lived in it.

"There's No I In Trevor Noah [VIDEO" on What Now? with Trevor Noah, found on DeepCast] (30 May 2024)

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Awards 12

2023Erasmus Prize
2019NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series
2018Time 100
2017NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Biography/Auto-biography
2017NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author
2017Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
2017GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Talk Show Episode
2017MTV Movie & TV Award for Best Host
2017Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series
2017Thurber Prize for American Humor
2015MTV Africa Music Awards
Audie Award for Best Male Narrator

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About this person

Born in Johannesburg on 20 February 1984, Noah started doing comedy in South Africa in 2008, picking up hosting gigs with SABC and landing runner-up on Strictly Come Dancing that same year. From 2010 to 2011 he created and hosted Tonight with Trevor Noah on M-Net. He joined The Daily Show as Senior International Correspondent in 2014, then took the desk when Stewart left in 2015. His 2016 book Born a Crime turned his illegal-under-apartheid birth into bestselling memoir. He hosted until 2022, won two Primetime Emmys, and has emceed the Grammys every year since 2021. Time put him on its 100 most influential list in 2018, the same year The Hollywood Reporter called him one of New York media's most powerful twice running.

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Country
South Africa
Category
Comedians
Type
Comedian
Status
living
Dates
Born 1984 · age 42
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30 languages

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