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I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.
- Trevor Noah
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I want my audience to be my friends - that is when they will get the best comedy. If they see me as a performer, they won't get the best show.
- Trevor Noah
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Africa's not a color - it's a place.
- Trevor Noah
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If I'm doing something on stage, and it evokes an emotion, then I might show that emotion, but I also don't believe in being a preacher. If you have a point, that's a bonus. But the funny has to come first; otherwise, you shouldn't call yourself a comedian.
- Trevor Noah
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I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.
- Trevor Noah
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You have two choices, two paths to take as a comedian. You can tackle the difficult subjects and be harsh about it, be brash, be abrasive. But adding hatred to racism is not going to help everybody. So I like to have fun around it.
- Trevor Noah
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I live in South Africa. I'm proud to live there. I've always said I want to be a comedian from South Africa in the world. I will stay in places for a bit here and there and pop into New York for a while, maybe stay in London for a year, but my home will always be South Africa. I enjoy it too much.
- Trevor Noah
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What I've always said about comedy is if you do it in the right way, you can say anything to anybody because they know where you're coming from. They know it's not malicious.
- Trevor Noah
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I'm a quarterback. I don't need to score the touchdown. I just need to spot the pass.
- Trevor Noah
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When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice, you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.
- Trevor Noah
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I've never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it.
- Trevor Noah
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The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that.
- Trevor Noah
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If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.
- Trevor Noah
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My mom, through my dad, rented the apartment next door to his... he had the lease on both places. But then, she would dress up and act like his maid... a practical maid. No fantasies.
- Trevor Noah
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I don't think I have thick skin, but I heal fast. It's easy to break through, but I heal fast.
- Trevor Noah
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If you laugh with somebody, then you know you share something.
- Trevor Noah
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I lost contact with my father for many years because of apartheid. For, like, six years, I didn't see my dad. And, now, this was the six years of being a teenager.
- Trevor Noah
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We live in the Internet age. Everyone wants clicks. Clicks are what sells.
- Trevor Noah
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I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix in South Africa. And this was obviously awkward because I grew up in a mixed family. My mother's a black woman, South African Xhosa woman... and my father's Swiss, from Switzerland.
- Trevor Noah
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