Trevor Noah
South African comedian and television host · South Africa · On the map · Comedians · Born 1984 · age 42
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.
Trevor Noah is read about 2,548 times a day, in 45 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 9 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
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Lupita Nyong'o Also in Black Panther (2018)
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Martin Freeman Also in Black Panther (2018)
Michael B. Jordan Also in Black Panther (2018)
Post Malone Also in This Is Me...Now: A Love Story (2024)
Keke Palmer Also in This Is Me...Now: A Love Story (2024)
Ryan Coogler Directed Black Panther (2018)
Kim Petras Also in This Is Me...Now: A Love Story (2024)
Winston Duke Also in Black Panther (2018)
Florence Kasumba Also in Black Panther (2018)
Isaach de Bankolé Also in Black Panther (2018)
Jenifer Lewis Also in This Is Me...Now: A Love Story (2024)
Derek Hough Also in This Is Me...Now: A Love Story (2024)- Dave Meyers Directed This Is Me...Now: A Love Story (2024)
Trevor Jackson Also in This Is Me...Now: A Love Story (2024)
Michelle Wolf Influenced by Trevor
Danny Sapani Also in Black Panther (2018)
Michael Sugar Produced Split Screen (2022)
Jordan Klepper Also in The Daily Show
Janeshia Adams-Ginyard Also in Black Panther (2018)
Joe Robert Cole Wrote Black Panther (2018)
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4.9M subscribersIn their own words 4
, [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?
And that is a problem I have with, like, a lot of American political spin -- they try and tell you that what you're seeing is not what you're seeing.
And look, I don't know if I want to eat at a restaurant where everybody's armed.
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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.
