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- Height5′ 11¼″ (1.81 m)
- Trevor Noah is a South African comedian, television host, actor, and political commentator. He is the host of The Daily Show, an American satirical news program on Comedy Central.
Born in Johannesburg, Noah began his career in South Africa in 2002. He had several hosting roles with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and was the runner-up in the fourth season of South Africa's iteration of Strictly Come Dancing in 2008. From 2010 to 2011, he hosted the late-night talk show Tonight with Trevor Noah, which he created and aired on M-Net and DStv.
In 2014, Noah became the Senior International Correspondent for The Daily Show, and in 2015 succeeded long-time host Jon Stewart. His autobiographical comedy book Born a Crime was published in 2016. He hosted the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2021 and the 64th Annual Grammy Awards edition in 2022.
Noah has won various awards, including an MTV Africa Music Award and a Primetime Emmy Award from eleven nominations. He was named one of "The 35 Most Powerful People in New York Media" by The Hollywood Reporter in 2017 and 2018. In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the hundred most influential people in the world.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- ChildrenNo Children
- ParentsPatricia NombuyiseloRobert Noah
- Ability to effortlessly mimic accents of different nationalities
- He is a polyglot; he speaks English, Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho, Tswana, Tsonga, Afrikaans and some German.
- His father is white (of Swiss origin). His mother is black (of the Xhosa people).
- He began his career in comedy when he was out at a bar in South Africa with his cousin and a friend. They were both drunk and began heckling a comedian. When the comedian challenged them to come on stage...they sent Trevor to perform. He went on stage to avoid looking like a "scaredy cat" and discovered that when he spoke, people laughed.
- During his childhood, he did not know the famous song "Happy Birthday to You" as being the official birthday song because his mother would sing to him a birthday tune from Donald Duck's 50th Birthday (1984).
- He wrote two versions of his autobiography "Born a Crime". The original version contained some profanity, so he wrote an adapted version without the profanity so that children could read this.
- You have to work a bit harder to offend me because I'm from the home of some of the best racism in the world. I'm a snob when it comes to racism.
- I never thought I'd be more afraid of police in America than in South Africa. It kind of makes me a little nostalgic for the old days back home.
- Now I wonder if somebody went to jail because a witness was 'sure' that the criminal was wearing 'white and gold. (On the controversy surrounding #TheDress)
- If this comedy thing doesn't work out, I've always got poverty to fall back on.
- Looking at how successful all the Kardashian women are, I don't blame Bruce Jenner at all. (On Bruce Jenner's gender reassignment)
- The Daily Show (1996) - $16,000,000 (season 21)
- The Daily Show (1996) - $16,000,000 (season 23)
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