Trevor Noah Facts | 40 facts about the TV host

Trevor Noah is a South African comedian, television host, and political commentator.

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1. Trevor Noah was born 20th February 1984.
2. His father, Robert, is of Swiss-German ancestry, and his mother, Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah, is Xhosa.
3. He is a South African comedian, television host, and political commentator.
4. He is the host of The Daily Show.
5. He’s an American satirical news program on Comedy Central.
6. He was norn in Johannesburg, South Africa.
7. He began his career in South Africa in 2002.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. In 2014, Noah became the Senior International Correspondent for The Daily Show, and in 2015 succeeded long-time host Jon Stewart.
11. His autobiographical comedy book Born a Crime was published in 2016.
12. He hosted the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2021.
13. Noah has won various awards, including an MTV Africa Music Award and a Primetime Emmy Award from eleven nominations.
14. He was named one of “The 35 Most Powerful People in New York Media” by The Hollywood Reporter in 2017 and 2018.
15. In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the hundred most influential people in the world.
16. Under apartheid legislation, Noah’s mother was classified as Black, and his father was classified as White. Noah himself was classified as Colored. At the time of his birth, his parents’ interracial relationship was illegal, which Noah highlights in his autobiography.
17. Interracial sexual relations and marriages were not decriminalized until a year after his birth, when the Immorality Act was amended in 1985. Patricia and her mother, Nomalizo Frances Noah, raised Trevor in the black township of Soweto.
18. Noah went to Maryvale College, a private Roman Catholic primary and high school in Johannesburg.
19. In 2002, Noah had a small role on an episode of the South African soap opera Isidingo. He later hosted his own radio show Noah’s Ark on Gauteng’s leading youth-radio station, YFM.
20. He dropped his radio show and acting to focus on comedy, and has performed with South African comedians such as.
21. He worked as the opening act for American comedian Gabriel Iglesias in November 2007 and Canadian comedian Russell Peters on his South African tour.
22. Noah hosted an educational TV programme, Run the Adventure (2004–2006) on SABC 2.
23. In 2007, he hosted The Real Goboza, a gossip-themed show on SABC 1, and Siyadlala, a sports show also on the SABC. In 2008, Noah cohosted, alongside Pabi Moloi, The Amazing Date (a dating gameshow) and was a Strictly Come Dancing contestant in the fourth series.
24. 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.
25. 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).
26. In 2010, Noah also became a spokesperson and consumer protection agent for Cell C, South Africa’s third-largest mobile phone network provider.
27. 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).
28. His stand-up comedy specials in South Africa include The Daywalker (2009), Crazy Normal (2011), That’s Racist (2012), and It’s My Culture (2013).
29. In 2011, he relocated to the United States.
30. In January 2012, Noah became the first South African stand-up comedian to appear on The Tonight Show; and in May 2013, he became the first to appear on Late Show with David Letterman.
31. Noah was the subject of the 2012 documentary You Laugh But It’s True.
32. The same year, he starred in the one-man comedy show Trevor Noah: The Racist, which was based on his similarly titled South African special That’s Racist.
33. In September 2012, Noah was the Roastmaster in a Comedy Central Roast of South African Afrikaans singer Steve Hofmeyr.
34. In 2013, he performed the comedy special Trevor Noah: African American. In October 2013, he was a guest on BBC Two’s comedy panel show QI
35. In November 2013, he was a panelist on Channel 4 game show 8 Out of 10 Cats and appeared on Sean Lock’s team in 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown in September 2014.
36. In 2017, he made an appearance on the TV series Nashville.
37. In 2018, he appeared in Black Panther, Coming 2 America, and American Vandal
38. Noah speaks English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, Tsonga and some German
39. Noah was selected as the Class Day speaker for Princeton University’s Class of 2021. He gave his address virtually on 15 May 2021, and was inducted as an honorary member of the Class of 2021.
40. He’s married to Melissa Rowdy and lives with her in NYC.