Trevor riffs with the audience, longform
May 4, 2022 8:21 PM Subscribe
Between The Scenes is Trevor Noah doing audience work during tapings of The Daily Show. If you want to see his comic gifts sparkle, here's your chance, as compilations. The Best Of Trevor's Accents [24m], Growing Up In South Africa [19m], Trevor's Family [15m30s], Eight Times America Surprised Trevor [16m], The Best Guest Moments [23m]
BONUS CONTENT: Trevor Noah Interviews Stephen Colbert on Late Night With Stephen Colbert [12m]
BONUS CONTENT: Trevor Noah Interviews Stephen Colbert on Late Night With Stephen Colbert [12m]
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Really enjoyed the Colbert segment.
posted by hypnogogue at 9:01 PM on May 4, 2022
posted by hypnogogue at 9:01 PM on May 4, 2022
Canadian accessible links:
The Best of Trevor’s Accents
Growing Up in South Africa
Trevor’s Family
Eight Times America Surprised Trevor
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 9:28 PM on May 4, 2022 [4 favorites]
The Best of Trevor’s Accents
Growing Up in South Africa
Trevor’s Family
Eight Times America Surprised Trevor
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 9:28 PM on May 4, 2022 [4 favorites]
Strange, I do not like the new Daily Show, but I had the same feeling when Craig Kilborn transition to Jon Stewart. I think Carell and Colbert carried that era as much as Stewart, and also I could just be too old for Trevor Noah.
However, the links you posted made me like Trevor Noah. I wonder if the Daily Show might not be his best forum and he'd be better on an actual talk show? To be fair it took about 6-7 years and the Iraq War for Jon Stewart's Daily Show to really click.
posted by geoff. at 9:35 PM on May 4, 2022 [3 favorites]
However, the links you posted made me like Trevor Noah. I wonder if the Daily Show might not be his best forum and he'd be better on an actual talk show? To be fair it took about 6-7 years and the Iraq War for Jon Stewart's Daily Show to really click.
posted by geoff. at 9:35 PM on May 4, 2022 [3 favorites]
Interesting the "growing up in South Africa" story about playing with bricks as toy cars.
I've seen kids playing with bricks here too, but they were girls, who had wrapped their bricks in rags and were nursing them as babies.
I always found that unbearably tragic, but after watching Trevor enthuse about his brick car, I guess those girls got joy from their brick babies too?
posted by Zumbador at 10:19 PM on May 4, 2022 [1 favorite]
I've seen kids playing with bricks here too, but they were girls, who had wrapped their bricks in rags and were nursing them as babies.
I always found that unbearably tragic, but after watching Trevor enthuse about his brick car, I guess those girls got joy from their brick babies too?
posted by Zumbador at 10:19 PM on May 4, 2022 [1 favorite]
Hey, I found a photograph of those girls with bricks, taken by photographer Jenny Gordon.
posted by Zumbador at 10:42 PM on May 4, 2022 [5 favorites]
posted by Zumbador at 10:42 PM on May 4, 2022 [5 favorites]
Oh, and the "Eight times America surprised Trevor" account of South Africa's version of 911 response is not exaggerated.
My mother once called our emergency response number in the middle of the night when a robber was trying to break into her house, and the operator asked if the man breaking in was her husband or boyfriend.
And not in an "is this domestic violence, can I help you" way, but in a "ma'am are you wasting my time" way.
posted by Zumbador at 10:48 PM on May 4, 2022 [6 favorites]
My mother once called our emergency response number in the middle of the night when a robber was trying to break into her house, and the operator asked if the man breaking in was her husband or boyfriend.
And not in an "is this domestic violence, can I help you" way, but in a "ma'am are you wasting my time" way.
posted by Zumbador at 10:48 PM on May 4, 2022 [6 favorites]
These interstitials are great because they play to his strengths (though i also find him a pretty solid and savvy interviewer), but in terms of transitioning into the chief editor as it were of a faux-newsroom, he was still shaky when it came to the American stuff. Notably I found his Africa/Third World stuff to be much more resonant if only you didn't get to hear that kind of (gentle) cynicism on an American platform, but also it's definitely a bit more fresh. Still, the current cohort is pretty good, though I'm not being too hard on my fellow Malaysian passport-holder when I say I'm not including Ronnie Chieng in that.
So basically what I'm saying is, even in the last years of Stewart's run, I'd say TDS has been a very pick and choose your segment kind of show. But while tastes in correspondents may vary I'll rec anyone just to stick with anything that leads with Noah's personal voice even if you find it a bit middle of the road sometimes. His monologues are good, interviews as I've mentioned, these bits with the audiences, all solid.
posted by cendawanita at 10:51 PM on May 4, 2022
So basically what I'm saying is, even in the last years of Stewart's run, I'd say TDS has been a very pick and choose your segment kind of show. But while tastes in correspondents may vary I'll rec anyone just to stick with anything that leads with Noah's personal voice even if you find it a bit middle of the road sometimes. His monologues are good, interviews as I've mentioned, these bits with the audiences, all solid.
posted by cendawanita at 10:51 PM on May 4, 2022
I always found that unbearably tragic, but after watching Trevor enthuse about his brick car, I guess those girls got joy from their brick babies too?
30 years nomadic and in Sovietistan and Asia, you find you just really don't need shit. With my kids it blows my mind thinking about all of those toys and things I coveted, my kids are very minimalist with their entertainments. I would buy them whatever they want, but I guess they have just never wanted much. No commercials and no marketing in their lives, just Papa's skepticism.
Oh, and the "Eight times America surprised Trevor" account of South Africa's version of 911 response is not exaggerated.
We have similar "Central Asia" moments here all the time. This morning we were making the hotdogs (linked plastic wrap style) and wife showed me one was double sized, they missed one link.
"In America you could send them a photo of that and get a coupon for a free kilo!"
"Here they would look, and laugh. 'Wow! Lucky you, you got a big one!'"
He missed a golden callback opportunity with the African - French balcony rescue guy. He is from Africa, he knows you got to take care of your own business and no 911 going to save the day!
posted by Meatbomb at 2:46 AM on May 5, 2022 [1 favorite]
30 years nomadic and in Sovietistan and Asia, you find you just really don't need shit. With my kids it blows my mind thinking about all of those toys and things I coveted, my kids are very minimalist with their entertainments. I would buy them whatever they want, but I guess they have just never wanted much. No commercials and no marketing in their lives, just Papa's skepticism.
Oh, and the "Eight times America surprised Trevor" account of South Africa's version of 911 response is not exaggerated.
We have similar "Central Asia" moments here all the time. This morning we were making the hotdogs (linked plastic wrap style) and wife showed me one was double sized, they missed one link.
"In America you could send them a photo of that and get a coupon for a free kilo!"
"Here they would look, and laugh. 'Wow! Lucky you, you got a big one!'"
He missed a golden callback opportunity with the African - French balcony rescue guy. He is from Africa, he knows you got to take care of your own business and no 911 going to save the day!
posted by Meatbomb at 2:46 AM on May 5, 2022 [1 favorite]
It's from his stand up but Trevor Noah having his very first taco is easily the funniest thing I watched in the last six months.
posted by Mitheral at 5:43 AM on May 5, 2022 [4 favorites]
posted by Mitheral at 5:43 AM on May 5, 2022 [4 favorites]
Hahaha, his bit in the accent video about saying "no hablo español" in perfectly accented Spanish rings so true for me. I have very good pronunciation and extremely basic vocabulary in like 5 or 6 languages so people often assume I am fluent and get very confused when I tell them I am not.
posted by Rock Steady at 6:04 AM on May 5, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by Rock Steady at 6:04 AM on May 5, 2022 [2 favorites]
Zumbador: "Hey, I found a photograph of those girls with bricks, taken by photographer Jenny Gordon."
My parents always tell me about the time that, after having offered my sister a doll, she ended up discarding it and playing with the cardboard it was wrapped in. I think that with issues pertaining to imagination, and especially when it comes to kids' power to enchant even the most trivial item, our civilization has it backwards. Obviously it's nice to point out where the real richness stems from.
posted by nicolin at 6:27 AM on May 5, 2022 [1 favorite]
My parents always tell me about the time that, after having offered my sister a doll, she ended up discarding it and playing with the cardboard it was wrapped in. I think that with issues pertaining to imagination, and especially when it comes to kids' power to enchant even the most trivial item, our civilization has it backwards. Obviously it's nice to point out where the real richness stems from.
posted by nicolin at 6:27 AM on May 5, 2022 [1 favorite]
I worked on Jon’s Daily Show for five years and then on Trevor’s first five years. Between the Scenes was easily the most successful bit from the show, but damn it really doubled the length of our work nights sometimes.
posted by nevercalm at 6:50 AM on May 5, 2022 [11 favorites]
posted by nevercalm at 6:50 AM on May 5, 2022 [11 favorites]
I happened to watch some of the first one with subtitles on and they kept flashing up subtitles just saying "Trevor speaking foreign language" every time he switched into another language!
Surely a show of that stature could have rustled up some staff who spoke basic Spanish, German, etc., who could have chipped in to the subtitling?!
posted by penguin pie at 11:30 AM on May 5, 2022
Surely a show of that stature could have rustled up some staff who spoke basic Spanish, German, etc., who could have chipped in to the subtitling?!
posted by penguin pie at 11:30 AM on May 5, 2022
I don't know.
I should have added context to the photo I posted. Those children live in one of the poorest communities here, and right next to an oil refinery.
I think there's something different going on there than choosing to play with the packaging rather than the toy, or eschewing consumerism. Still, they clearly love their bricks dolls fiercely.
I think they would still love something soft and pretty as well.
I wonder why Trevor's brick toy cars don't inspire the same feeling in me?
posted by Zumbador at 9:41 PM on May 5, 2022
I should have added context to the photo I posted. Those children live in one of the poorest communities here, and right next to an oil refinery.
I think there's something different going on there than choosing to play with the packaging rather than the toy, or eschewing consumerism. Still, they clearly love their bricks dolls fiercely.
I think they would still love something soft and pretty as well.
I wonder why Trevor's brick toy cars don't inspire the same feeling in me?
posted by Zumbador at 9:41 PM on May 5, 2022
Thanks for this. Just like the John Oliver video where he's talking about "Air Bud" that was recently posted, it's great to hear Trevor's humor without having to hear him tell me about horrible things that happened this week at the same time.
posted by mmoncur at 2:50 AM on May 6, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by mmoncur at 2:50 AM on May 6, 2022 [1 favorite]
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