Posted on 04/19/2015 12:15:53 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
JOHANNESBURG — Years before he was chosen to succeed Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show,” before he made his debut on that Comedy Central news satire or appeared on any American television program, a rising stand-up named Trevor Noah explained why his racial background was both empowering and confining.
Speaking from his native South Africa in 2008, Mr. Noah, the son of a black Xhosa mother and a white Swiss father, said that his countrymen had variously accepted and rejected him as being black, and embraced and denied him as being mixed race.
Never fitting in anywhere, Mr. Noah said in a documentary film called “You Laugh but It’s True,” was the ultimate license to speak his mind.
“You’ve lived everywhere and nowhere,” Mr. Noah said. “You’ve been everyone and no one. So you can say everything and nothing.”
Now 31 and seemingly plucked from out of nowhere to follow Mr. Stewart, one of America’s most influential and outspoken late-night hosts, Mr. Noah has been provided an unparalleled platform on which to share his voice.
Though his comedic sensibilities are largely unknown in the United States, they have been fundamentally shaped by South Africa’s legacy of apartheid, his challenging upbringing in that still-developing democratic nation and by a racial identity that is no more easily categorized in his home country than in the one where he is about to become a television star.
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Everyone knows ethnic, racial, religious jokes are funny so......
We need to import this liberal crap weasel to hear some racial smack. Native born white guys need not apply.
He was only alive for maybe the last 10 years of apartheid. He was a child. So they now want us to feel guilt over some other country?
So that gives him the right to say disparaging things about Jews. Got it.
I think the whole cult of left wing comedians/propagandists is a cultural disgrace.
If you ever watch the Comedy Channel, there is a definite political protocol. Comedians with left-wing leanings are free to express themselves, while middle-of-the-road and conservative comics adhere to Spinoza’s sub Rosa dictum: “Those who hid well, lived well.”
And some of the lefty tag lines, say Karl Rove smears, are out-of-date and they aren’t even aware of it so the joke’s on them that conservatives are laughing, not peeved.
It’s just perfunctory, boiler plate schtick, like saying, “Hey, you’re a great crowd!” I don’t expect anything different from this one. He’ll read his cue cards, play laugh track, meh.
Comedic sensibilities? Ha! Becoming a star? Ha to that too. I think he’s going to crash and burn. This guy is Jon Stewart’s vanity project, nothing more.
If Obama had a comic;;;;;;;son?
Stewart chose this fellow to keep him in the limelight.
Some will see if SA’s affirmative action provides the same kind of true winners ours has but I will not watch one more African make fun of my politics and denegrate my beliefs.
Damn you Comity Sintrul!
All the cool people are “people of color.”
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