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.
From Trevor Noah
I'm not a big Hollywood guy. I don't know how the machine works. I leave that to people better than myself.
If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.
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.
My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in jail.
If you laugh with somebody, then you know you share something.
I've never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it.
I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.
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.
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.
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