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January 11, 2014 4:22 PM

Trevor Noah — Live at the Apollo — London
posted by esprit de l'escalier (14 comments total)

Hilarious! He killed it at QI too.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 4:39 PM on January 11, 2014 [5 favorites]

The sandwich joke at the end of the Apollo bit made me laugh until I cried.
posted by winna at 4:58 PM on January 11, 2014 [5 favorites]

My wife and I watched this earlier today and loved it. Our first introduction to him was that QI bit and we loved him every bit as much as those on the show did.
posted by Stunt at 5:04 PM on January 11, 2014

First time I saw him I think was on W. Kamau Bell's show. He did some of the same jokes.

The "That's You" part made me laugh because I wonder if he did it for laughs or he really isn't sure how "That's you" works.
posted by cashman at 5:32 PM on January 11, 2014

The "That's You" part made me laugh because I wonder if he did it for laughs or he really isn't sure how "That's you" works.

Isn't that from Training Day? If he watched the movie he'd surely know how it works but maybe he figured his audience probably didn't.
posted by fuse theorem at 6:34 PM on January 11, 2014

I totally thought he was doing a Denzel impersonation. Made me think of Aries Spears.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 6:39 PM on January 11, 2014

I am literally watching this right now....from Reddit to you to me...and now I am watching him on Letterman....overlap in material from the Apollo but he's great....and easy on the eyes too, if we're allowed to say that. And so good with the languages!
posted by bquarters at 6:59 PM on January 11, 2014

See Also: Tacos.
The AIDS bit is also great.
and why yes, I was tipped off to him by QI too.
posted by Cold Lurkey at 7:31 PM on January 11, 2014 [3 favorites]

The sandwich joke at the end of the Apollo bit made me laugh until I cried.

The Hitler bit? Oh damn that was freaking funny.
posted by Fists O'Fury at 7:34 PM on January 11, 2014

Trevor Noah is the best. His comedy is hilariously funny but also puts a microscope to American's own handling of race since he gets to approach it as an outsider who didn't grow up in it and learn it gradually but all at once as an adult. God, I bet he'd be great on SNL, he's so great at voices.
posted by mathowie at 7:39 PM on January 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

It's not just his voices, either (although the Hitler bit had me laughing to tears). Every joke was funny. His presentation is refined -- he interleaves solemn personal hardships, then brilliantly uses them to set up the next joke. It's really something.
posted by spiderskull at 10:14 PM on January 11, 2014 [2 favorites]

"But how does the thousandth banana kill you?"
posted by mikelieman at 3:51 AM on January 12, 2014 [1 favorite]

I just discovered him last week via netflix, where he has a full length special. It is really good. Even the parts where I wasn't laughing out loud, I was smiling really hard. I hope to see more from him.
posted by billyfleetwood at 3:29 PM on January 12, 2014

Heard him on Marc Maron's WTF podcast. Well worth a listen - interesting guy with a hell of a life story.
posted by stenseng at 11:25 AM on January 13, 2014