The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

his first few segments on the daily show (the only few, i guess) have been painfully unfunny. lots of awkward silence during time that's obviously supposed to be filled with audience laughter.

if anything i find it kinda sad that these celebs are so alienated from their heritage that when they try to access it through humor they end up regurgitating lazy antisemitic stereotype jokes instead of the very prolific history of jewish humor.

it's like they only know their heritage through the eyes of ppl who hate them

Yeah those indeed read like a bunch of Family Guy jokes.

― Evan, Tuesday, March 31, 2015 9:50 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yuck. I thought he was better than that, but he's really just Daniel Tosh with an accent.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, March 31, 2015 9:59 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've described Daniel Tosh "The 'Family Guy' of stand up" so this all fits together nicely.

if those tweets are legit, it's stunning that nobody vetted dude's social media before this announce

i can't believe he literally made a fat chicks joke

i watched a clip of him on letterman. he wasn't funny at all. i don't know why they couldn't get wyatt cenac or, like i said upthread, aasif mandvi. even without the junior high bully humor on twitter i didn't get dude's appeal in the first place

a lot of comics' twitters are clearinghouses for their worst ideas but it's really glaring just how different, in both tone and content, those tweets are from his standup, which can be a little blue but not all lowest common denominator like that

I really wanted Cenac to get the Late Night job that Seth Meyers got, and then the Late Late job that James Corden got. It would've been neat for him to come back to TDS, but I don't get the sense based on the type of things he's done after leaving that he wants to focus on politics.

Wonder what Wyatt went to go do instead of being a correspondent. I mean I haven't researched it, but to the unengaged it looked like he just went back to occasional gigs at the Bell House in Gowanus and whatever else. I'm sure he writes regularly as well? You'd think The Daily Show would be a pretty secure well paying job when you're great at it like he was.

Cenac gets supporting roles in the odd indie film that lasts exactly one week in NYC theaters

wonder if trevor noah will make 30 million per year off of the daily show like jon stewart does

Wonder what Wyatt went to go do instead of being a correspondent. I mean I haven't researched it, but to the unengaged it looked like he just went back to occasional gigs at the Bell House in Gowanus and whatever else. I'm sure he writes regularly as well? You'd think The Daily Show would be a pretty secure well paying job when you're great at it like he was.

― Evan, Tuesday, March 31, 2015 10:33 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He put out a comedy record not too long ago, and he gigs regularly. Maybe he just prefers doing standup, and didn't see it as just a stepping-stone to tv/movies.

Right.

Trevor Noah more like Trevor Shoah am I right?

uh no u are not

idgi just sounds like Joan Rivers is writing for him from Hell

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/03/31/yes-the-new-daily-show-host-is-black-and-hes-spent-his-career-making-fun-of-african-americans/

Then Noah joked that black people are misidentified as African Americans. “They’re not African, but we’ll play along,” he said, adding, “Many of them really try to connect with Africa, you know? Some of them have these African names. They’ll be like, ‘Yeah, yeah, that’s my girl Wanda, yeah, yeah. Yeah that’s right, that’s Dashiqua, or dat’s Taniqua.”

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBY7d4HUUAAkGEe.jpg

oh those jews what with their exploiting gentiles and accumulating obscene wealth

My theory on that one was that he started with "#BeatsbyDreidel" and was reaching to come up with context for it

the german car joke i don't even know what to do w/ - obv it's a holocaust joke about the joke teller killing jews?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i rarely watched the daily show since i graduated from college anyway. i doubt i'll watch it much now.

wonder if trevor noah will make 30 million per year off of the daily show like jon stewart does

I doubt JS made that much his first year and besides he had already done a zillion MTV hosting and was already a hugely established name.

Wait where's the German car joke one?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBZvscXWQAA468j.jpg:large

i think they are going to rescind this offer. at this point, everyone seems to already hate this guy

Oh weird, the german car one was not showing up in the article for me at all. Yeah he clearly was going for an edgy irony thing but it's not at all funny enough to distract from the nagl-ness of it.

I nominate Treesh to be the next daily show host

Quick start digging through old Treeship tweets.

#banfrats

banf rats?

Seems like most people on Twitter are defending him "Ever heard of comedy? It's his job!"

Noah's job will be to push liberals' pleasure buttons with toothless gibes at the expense of Republicans, then fawn over whichever Republican has been invited on as a guest; he'll do fine.

My theory on that one was that he started with "#BeatsbyDreidel" and was reaching to come up with context for it

― Evan, Tuesday, March 31, 2015 11:51 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the fact that this was the least offensive of all his jokes is never a good sign

tbqh the shit directed at women seems far more bilious & mean-spirited than any of the jewishness jokes but they're still NAGL, in any case dude is so fired...

...probably. then again daniel tosh is still employed by comedy central, iirc, and he is literally one of the biggest pieces of shit in comedy full stop, so their tolerance is def high

all these tweets were publicly available before they hired him. CC would look like true dummies if they dropped him now.

That the beatsbydreidel is least offensive is def a pretty good sign, since it's the most recent one.

not that it makes much difference but they're just poorly-constructed unsurprising jokes - it's not like you could even make the argument that he's doing something edgy or boundary-pushing or subversive, they're just hacky garbage. Like when Patton Oswalt did that stupid series of psuedo-rape joke Tweets... he was being an idiot but at least you could have an argument about what he was doing. A guy who stretches to make a "BeatsbyDreidel" joke doesn't deserve the "Ever heard of comedy? It's his job!" defense.

Yeah, the shoddiness of the jokes is a bigger strike against him than the content. They're so basic.

yeah it's not so much that they're offensive (which whatever) but that they're not funny and sort of politically naive, which is not what stewart's replacement should be

it's not like you could even make the argument that he's doing something edgy or boundary-pushing or subversive, they're just hacky garbage.

exactly.

so, maybe the South African Craig Kilborn

even the stand-up stuff I saw of his was along the lines of "The mexican asked me if I wanted a napkin. In my country a "napkin" is what you Americans call a "diaper". How messy is this taco going to make me?" What a country!

Eh those jokes about as funny and tasteful as anything else on Comedy Central in the past 20+ years.

Also he probably won't be writing the little jokes he says after they roll a montage of Fox News clips.

half the time they just resort to Jon starring horrified/confused speechless in those cases right now anyway.

network releases offish statement, about what you'd expect
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBcxei4UsAA_oHd.jpg

I told you guys that Craig Kilborn went to my high school, right

to be provocative is brave
to react to provocative is unfair

I've used it myself sometimes but "it's unfair to be provoked by this person doing provocative things" is one of the weakest arguments

from the la times

Donald Trump found an unusual ally Tuesday night as Trevor Noah tackled the problematic Elizabeth Warren behavior that spawned the president’s “Pocahontas” nickname.

On Monday, during a ceremony honoring Navajo code talkers, Trump again used his nickname for Warren in derogatory fashion.

“This whole beef between Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren is a tricky one to process because all the other nicknames that he uses on other people are self-explanatory,” Noah explained on “The Daily Show.”

He illustrated his point by mentioning “low-energy” Jeb Bush, “little” Marco Rubio and “lyin’” Ted Cruz.

Because Warren’s nickname isn’t as readily apparent, Noah dove into the backstory, which included years of the Massachusetts senator misidentifying herself as Native American.

“The way Warren tells the story, it’s been part of her family lore for decades, that they have some Native American ancestry,” Noah said, though evidence has never born that family history out.

“Is Trump racist?” Noah asked, “Yeah. But in his own … way, he’s hitting Elizabeth Warren for saying she’s Native American when she wasn’t. Something she’s never apologized for or owned up to.”

Warren, he pointed out, did something problematic, something conscientious people call each other out on every day.

Noah then made the most unnerving pronouncement of all: “As weird as it is to say, in his own racially offensive way, Donald Trump was being woke.”

ah, I see. He was sincere about it. I don't see the problem though.

hey if you don’t see a problem with giving donald trump credit for his understanding of race then i dunno what to tell you

maybe spend a minute thinking about the venue for this most recent display of wokeness

ok He says "Donald Trump is a racist" but then notes the irony of him engaging in a call-out. Calling him "woke" was a joke. I dunno what to tell you guys.

I never knew the story behind that nickname but if what Trevor says is true ... otm

Her explanation is that her family always told her she was part Native American and she never looked into her genealogy

TDS knew that suggesting trump was woke would make some waves, so they made out happen, however labored and clumsy

that clip of his stand-up routine downplaying the Marikana massacre of striking miners is fucking insane.
especially the presumption that strikes are things to be broken.
the tear gas wasn't working so what else can you do but spray machine gun fire into a crowd?

So new neighbor moved next to us a few months ago. Was walking the dog and chatted with him briefly. Dude wasn't wearing a shirt and is covered in tats. Noticed one tattoo on his abdomen said "Fuck Trevor Noah". Spent the last several days trying to process this.

Like I know from watching my wife and friends go through getting a tattoo that it's a process, right? You have to conceive of the tattoo, sketch it out, make an appointment, wait a while, get it inked, make another appt for more ink, etc. At no point did this guy think "am I making good choices?" or "will my beef with a Comedy Central host subside in time?" So many questions!

maybe it's the first item on a to-do list

Please ask him about it and report back. He wants to tell you about it, promise.

Jon Stewart fanatic

The other arm says "I want to"

You have to conceive of the tattoo, sketch it out, make an appointment, wait a while, get it inked, make another appt for more ink, etc

You're vastly overestimating how long it takes for a stupid idea to be permanently etched on the human body. The tattoo artist didn't have to invent a font to make that transfer.