![]() ![]() Noah performed in The Blacks Only Comedy Show, the Heavyweight Comedy Jam, the Vodacom Campus Comedy Tour, the Cape Town International Comedy Festival, the Jozi Comedy Festival, and Bafunny Bafunny (2010). In 2010, Noah also became a spokesperson and consumer protection agent for Cell C, South Africa's third-largest mobile phone network provider. In 2010, Noah hosted the 16th annual South African Music Awards and also hosted Tonight with Trevor Noah on MNet (for the second series, it moved to DStv's Mzansi Magic Channel). In 2009, he hosted the 3rd Annual South Africa Film and Television Awards (SAFTAs) and co-hosted alongside Eugene Khoza on The Axe Sweet Life, a reality competition series. In 2008, Noah cohosted, alongside Pabi Moloi, The Amazing Date (a dating gameshow) and was a Strictly Come Dancing contestant in the fourth series. In 2007, he hosted The Real Goboza, a gossip-themed show on SABC 1, and Siyadlala, a sports show also on the SABC. Noah hosted an educational TV programme, Run the Adventure (2004–2006) on SABC 2. He dropped his radio show and acting to focus on comedy, and has performed with South African comedians such as: David Kau, Kagiso Lediga, Riaad Moosa, Darren Simpson, Marc Lottering, Barry Hilton, and Nik Rabinowitz, international comedians such as Paul Rodriguez, Carl Barron, Dan Ilic, and Paul Zerdin, and as the opening act for American comedian Gabriel Iglesias in November 2007 and Canadian comedian Russell Peters on his South African tour. After that night Noah continued performing at comedy clubs, gaining recognition along the way. He entertained the audience with humorous stories about his friends and his life. When he was 21 years old, his friends dared him to perform a comedy routine at a nightclub. He later hosted his own radio show Noah's Ark on Gauteng's leading youth-radio station, YFM. In 2002, Noah had a small role on an episode of the South African soap opera Isidingo. Career Early work and breakthrough Noah performing on his Loud and Clear tour in February 2019 Noah began his schooling at Maryvale College, a private Roman Catholic primary and high school in Maryvale, Gauteng, a suburb of Johannesburg. Patricia and her mother, Nomalizo Frances Noah, raised Trevor in the black township of Soweto. Interracial sexual relations and marriages were decriminalised a year after his birth, when the Immorality Act was amended in 1985. At the time of his birth, his parents' interracial relationship was illegal, which Noah highlights in his autobiography. ![]() Under apartheid legislation, Noah's mother was classified as Black, and his father was classified as White. His father, Robert, is of Swiss- German ancestry, and his mother, Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah, is Xhosa. Trevor Noah was born on 20 February 1984, in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. He hosted the 63rd, the 64th and the 65th Annual Grammy Awards as well as the 2022 White House Correspondents Dinner. His autobiographical comedy book Born a Crime was published in 2016. In 2014, Noah became the Senior International Correspondent for The Daily Show, and in 2015 succeeded long-time host Jon Stewart. From 2010 to 2011, he hosted the late-night talk show Tonight with Trevor Noah, which he created and aired on M-Net and DStv. He had several hosting roles with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and was the runner-up in the fourth season of South Africa's iteration of Strictly Come Dancing in 2008. īorn in Johannesburg, Noah began his career in South Africa in 2002. ![]() In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the hundred most influential people in the world. He was named one of "The 35 Most Powerful People in New York Media" by The Hollywood Reporter in 20. Noah has won various awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award from 11 nominations. He was the host of The Daily Show, an American late-night talk show and satirical news program on Comedy Central, from 2015 to 2022. Trevor Noah (born 20 February 1984) is a South African comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and former television host.
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