Pa Nsaka Trevor Noah - The Funny Guy!!

TREVOR NOAH

THE FUNNY GUY!!

Background

Trevor Noah was born to a (white) Swiss father and (black) South African mother.His mixed-race heritage, his experiences growing up in a Soweto township, and his observations about race and ethnicity are leading themes in his comedy.

Career

Noah had a small role on the South African soap opera, ‘Isidingo: The Need’ in 2002, when he was 18. He then began hosting his own radio show Noah’s Ark on Gauteng’s leading youth radio station, YFM. Noah then went on to host an educational program ‘Run The Adventure’ from 2004 - 2006 on SABC2. In 2007 he hosted ‘The Real Goboza’, a gossip show on SABC1, and ‘Siyadlala’ a SABC’s sports show. In 2008 Noah co-hosted alongside Pabi Moloi on ‘The Amazing Date’ (dating game-show). In 2009 he hosted the 3rd Annual South Africa Film and Television Awards (SAFTA Awards) and co-hosted alongside Eugene Khoza on ‘The Axe Sweet Life’ (reality competition series) at the 15th annual South African Music Awards. In 2010 Noah hosted the 16th annual South African Music Awards and also hosted ‘Tonight with Trevor Noah’ on MNet (in the second season it moved to DStv’s Mzansi Magic Channel).

Noah dropped his radio show and acting to focus on comedy, and has performed with South African comedians such as Riaad Moosa, Darren Simpson, Marc Lottering, Barry Hilton and Nik Rabinowitz, international comedians such as Paul Rodriguez, Carl Barron and Paul Zerdin, and as the opening act for Gabriel Iglesias in November 2007 and Canadian comedian Russell Peters on his South African tour. Noah has performed all around South Africa in ‘The Blacks Only Comedy Show’, Heavyweight Comedy Jam, the Vodacom Campus Comedy Tour, the Cape Town International Comedy Festival, the Jozi Comedy Festival, and Bafunny Bafunny (2010). His stand-up comedy specials include ‘The Daywalker’ (2009), and ‘Crazy Normal’ (2011), both of which have been released on DVD. His latest offering is entitled ‘It’s My Culture’ and in it he talks about his stint in Zambia as he has been here twice in 2013 for his outrageously funny Comedy Shows. Funny enough but true, he mentions that Zambia is a developing country comparing it to great South Africa but the funny part of that statement is that Zambia only has 5 Escalators and the first Escalator came in Zambia in 2008. In his daringly funny swipe at Zambia, he mentions that people go to the high class malls in Lusaka just to ride on the Escalator, some even taking photos of the Escalator with their high tech 3G smart phones…(is this true Zambian’s?).

On 6 January 2012 Noah became the first South African standup comedian to appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Lenor and appeared on 17 May 2013 on The David Letterman Show. Noah was the subject of the 2012 documentary ‘You Laugh But It’s True’. The same year he starred in the one-man Comedy Show ‘That’s Racist’. In 2013 Noah starred in BBC Radio 4 show ‘Trevor Noah: The Racist’. In 2013 he performed the comedy special ‘Trevor Noah: African American’. On 11 October 2013 he was a guest on BBC Two’s Comedy Panel Show QI. On 29 November 2013 he was a panelist on Channel 4 Game Show 8 out of 10 cats.