Trevor Noah Quotes

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

Sometimes people say I'm a political comedian, which, actually I'm not. I'm a comedian who sometimes discusses politics, culture - again, the word 'politics' to me is just life.

The Pakistani writers are addressing change and what's happening today in the world. There is something completely contemporary in this writing.

I do pick up on contemporary issues.

Right now, we live in bad times in this country, and the fact that there are filmmakers addressing political and social issues is to me a good thing.

My cartoons haven't been about the politics of the day or about the personalities; I'm more interested in campaigning about the issues.

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be funny. If we can figure out a way of being funny about it, then we've gone part of the way of accomplishing our task.

There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night.

On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.

Jon Stewart kills me. I love him. And Bill Maher. He does an hour on HBO. But entirely political. It is awfully rough, but he does make me laugh.

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

Welcome to post-racial America. I'm the face of post-racial America.

I always feel that most political jokes, if you're going to do them, you have to do them within the next five minutes, or else they're outdated. By the time you've got it to the point that it's strong, it would be 12 years old.

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

I don't consider myself a political comedian because it's so hard. It takes time away from me saying terrible things about TV.

I get all of my comedy from CNN.

The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.

When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.

To show that a comedian on stage in India talking about sanitation or in South Africa talking about HIV and AIDS awareness, if you follow the joke into their lives, you can see that, like, oh, these things aren't just contrived in joke books. This is real life. I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, Oh, this is what it is.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

But I guess as long as I'm here, we might as well talk a little politics.

A man should always be drunk when he talks politics – it's the only way in which to make them important.

There is so much going on in our country and in the world today... We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there? Well, I'm turned on by that kind of stuff.