History Creator / TrevorNoah

Trevor Noah (born 20 February 1984) is a South African comedian, best known to an American audience for hosting ''Series/TheDailyShowWithTrevorNoah'' from 2015-2022. He also wrote an autobiography, ''Born a Crime'', which describes his upbringing in South Africa and references the then-illegal relationship between his black Xhosa South African mother and white Swiss father.

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: While appearing on ''Series/{{QI}}'', he so thoroughly charmed Creator/StephenFry and Creator/SandiToksvig that Fry played up his attraction while Toksvig claimed she'd be willing to turn just for Trevor.

Trevor also voices Griot, the AI assistant of Shuri in the Film/MarvelCinematicUniverse, appearing in ''Film/BlackPanther2018'' and receiving a bigger role in ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever''. He also played Stacy in the episode, Internet, in ''WesternAnimation/StoryBotsAnswerTime''

Trevor also voices Griot, the AI assistant of Shuri in the Film/MarvelCinematicUniverse, appearing in ''Film/BlackPanther2018'' and receiving a bigger role in ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever''.

Trevor Noah (born 20 February 1984) is a South African comedian, best known to an American audience for hosting ''Series/TheDailyShowWithTrevorNoah'' following the departure of Creator/JonStewart. He was -- as the title of his autobiography implies -- "born a crime" in South Africa, the result of a then-illegal relationship between a white Swiss man and a black Xhosa South African woman.

His comedy circuit attracted attention for its genuinely international and cosmopolitan approach to humour, as Trevor Noah brings a genuinely post-colonial and critical view of international politics, both of his native South Africa, other nations, and of the USA. Helped by the fact that he speaks many languages, including English, Xhosa, German and others.

Trevor Noah (born 20 February 1984) is a South African comedian, best known to an American audience for hosting ''Series/TheDailyShowWithTrevorNoah'' following the departure of Creator/JonStewart. He was -- as the title of [[Literature/BornACrime his autobiography]] implies -- "born a crime" in South Africa, the result of a then illegal relationship between a white Swiss man and a black Xhosa South African woman.

* ButtMonkey: as a result of being the “new guy” touring with [[Creator/GabrielIglesias Fluffy]], he is caught up in a pretty dickish prank on Gabriella part. See BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor for more details, or watch here: https://youtu.be/b4gLMyRHdk8

-->'''Trevor as Zuma:''' Let us understand that I, Jacob Zuma, am a [[CountryMatters count]]...ry on my own.

* BadassBystander: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWm0sN0hWRs A memorable story]] from when ''Film/TheMatrix'' came out. Creator/LaurenceFishburne was in South Africa to help out a school, and a much younger Trevor naturally headed out to go see him. However, since he got [[YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb too excited to watch the road,]] he accidentally ran his car into a ditch as Laurence was passing by--and Laurence reflexively yelled for a nearby crowd to go help him, [[RousseauWasRight which they did.]] Trevor swore that he'd tell Laurence the story if he ever got to meet him in person, and ''eighteen years later,'' he finally got the chance.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: People unfamiliar with his history assume he’s this, but he’s mixed-race[[note]]Which in South Africa is classified as “Coloured,” and does not carry the same UnfortunateImplications the term has in the United States[[/note]] with a white father and black mother.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: People unfamiliar with his history assume he’s this, but he’s mixed-race[[note]]Which in South Africa is classified as “Coloured,” and does not carry the same UnfortuanteImplications the term has in the United States1[[/note]] with a white father and black mother.

* BriefAccentImitation: Perhaps due to his multilingual childhood, he has a surprising aptitude to mimic accents with scary accuracy and uses it a lot for comedic effect.
** One of his bits include a story of him doing it by accident by picking up some of [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler's]] speech mannerisms while learning German and scaring a subway attendant in Germany while ordering a sandwich.

* MixedAncestry: Being half-white/half-black, which has shaped a large part of his worldview.

* VirtualAssistantBlunder: Trevor does a routine that highlights how VA's like Siri and Alexa are only really geared up to understand instructions in Standard English. Trevor illustrates this by taking on the persona of a Boer whose first language is not English but Afrikaans. Alexa is eventually thrown out of a window by the exasperated [[AmoralAfrikaner Afrikaaner]].

* BlackSpeech: Trevor has noticed how the South African accent in spoken English is viewed with a mixture of distrust and [[Series/SpittingImage amusement]] in Britain, probably because of the [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra historical associations]]. He admits that being mixed race, he is not taken for an AmoralAfrikaner who by default doesn't have to prove he's pining for the good old days and that this gives him a free pass. He also riffs on how Germans perceive the accent. He demonstrates how a South African accent in spoken German inevitably comes over to Germans as somewhat ''[[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Austrian]]''. Which can make a simple request to pass the salt down the table sound like a declaration of intent to invade Poland.

* AbusiveParents: According to ''Born a Crime'', his stepfather, Abel, was an alcoholic mechanic with a HairTriggerTemper who felt threatened by Trevor's mother, Patricia, not being the meek housewife he firmly believed she should be. He violently assaulted Trevor and Patricia several times and attempted to kill her with a handgun in 2009. He was arrested but was let free by using the defense that he needed to work to take care of his children (Trevor's younger brothers). However, as Trevor points out, even before his mother divorced him, he never financially supported his brothers but due to his honest and apologetic defense (something he was an expert in) and the fact that the police refused to acknowledge his past violent assaults out of a StayInTheKitchen attitude toward his mother, he was given a three year probation on charges of failed attempted murder and was let free.

Trevor Noah (born February 20, 1984 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a South African comedian, best known to a US audience for hosting ''Series/TheDailyShowWithTrevorNoah'' following the departure of Creator/JonStewart. He was -- as the title of [[Literature/BornACrime his autobiography]] implies -- "born a crime" in South Africa, the result of a then illegal relationship between a white Swiss man and a black Xhosa South African woman.

** One of his bits include a story of him doing it on accident by picking up some of [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler's]] speech mannerisms while learning german and scaring a subway attendant in Germany while ordering a sandwich.

Trevor Noah (born 20 February 1984 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a South African comedian, best known to a US audience for hosting ''Series/TheDailyShowWithTrevorNoah'' following the departure of Creator/JonStewart. He was -- as the title of [[Literature/BornACrime his autobiography]] implies -- "born a crime" in South Africa, the result of a then illegal relationship between a white Swiss man and a black Xhosa South African woman.