Growing Up in South Africa - Between the Scenes | The Daily Show

you know we're watching so we're watching this story about the the toy Hall of Fame which is in Rochester and we're seeing like all the toys that are being inducted and so everyone in the office starts talking about their favorite toys growing up right so some people are like oh yeah I know for me it was Shoots and Ladders and for me it was the sled and for me it was this was that and then the people like what was your favorite favorite toy growing up and I was like genuinely my favorite toy growing up was a brick right dude sounds crazy but spinny why do you walk away like I'm a crazy like you literally walk away like I'm saying the wildest thing no because we so so what happened was no we had um when we were growing up um like I'd live at my Gran's house in Soweto and then what would happen is a lot of kids didn't have toys but it wasn't like a sad thing like oh I don't have children just like we play with whatever we find and so the most popular thing little boys would play with was bricks and your brick was you play with like a toy car so you'd like walk around the neighborhood searching for the best brick right because the game you were playing we didn't put wheels on anything like someone asked me in an office like you put wheels on no there's no wheels we're gonna find Wheels if we have wheels we wouldn't have these problems so we just took bricks so you would find bricks and then the game you'd play is you'd like drive around in the dirt with your brick car and then you would smash into the other boy's bricks and then if your brick was the last brick standing you won the game so like all of us was like a mission you're like man I gotta find bricks I gotta like you just like walk around the whole day just like searching for bricks and there's this one brick that we had called a face brick right which is basically like a really beautiful brick that you can you know bricks that you plaster over you can just have that as the face of your house that's what you call the face brick right and so that was like the dream brick was the most expensive brick though like you couldn't you could find everyone with like great bricks and like the like the dark black bricks and like all those but those bricks break you come with a phrase brick someone would like everyone would see like you'd pitch up you'd be like a pimp rolling up in a Rolls-Royce Phantom like Jenny I remember like one day I found the face brick and like you know I got they was like ill not the kids are like you've got that like all swag and then like oh Trevor are you playing are you playing and then I was like yeah and I pulled my brick out from behind my back and they're like oh face brick face brick and it's like yeah we asked well if it's pretty face brick and it's like let's go and then you drive and then like everyone Rams in and I'll be like you guys Ram me first I'll just I'll just chill everyone tries to Ram your brick and because the face brick it's like compact it doesn't crack and like everyone's bricks crack in half people are devastated like you see like kids smash they break and the brick cracks dead in the middle like ah yeah it's like a big thing and then you'd like play and you take the brick and it was such a popular thing that you had to be careful if you lived in the townships because kids would steal bricks from outside your house if you were doing renovations so if you weren't careful you would have like all your bricks outside because you're like oh I'm gonna build a wall and then like the next day you would come there and you'd be like where the [ __ ] are my bricks and like all the bricks were gone and then there's just like kids driving around like um it's like oh those are my bricks I don't know what you're talking about man this is my favorite toy it just makes you real like you just you can just have fun with anything man I was like that's generally my favorite even now when I see bricks I get like I said such a friend that's the one thing I don't like about living in New York you don't see bricks often like like just loose bricks hanging around you take that for granted I walk around I'm like man no bricks no brakes no bricks no bricks and if I see a brick there's a thing in me still till this day that wants to take the brick and I have to stop myself and be like you're the host of The Daily Show you can buy all the bricks you want and it's like yeah but take that brick server come on you know you want to I always think imagine if TMZ caught me on camera it's like Trevor Noah spotted stealing a brick and then I'd be trying to explain it no it's a car no it's not is Trevor Noah on drugs no weights it's so strong what were you doing Trevor I was gonna build Moon whoa that's what's up you guys you should let Donald Trump build the wall and then just bring like all the South African kids overnight so in my grandmother's house we didn't have a tap in the house we had one tap shed amongst four houses and that seemed like cool compared to my cousins because in the Villages they had one tap which is like a mile away so I'd go to my cousins to visit them for the um for the holidays and then I would like my cousin would wake me up at like 5 a.m I'd be like dude what are you doing he's like we gotta go get water and I'm like what and then you get the wheelbarrow and then you go and it's fun when you're on the way there because you're like this is fun you've got your wheelbarrow you're rolling and then you fill them you forget that you have to fill them up with water these giant giant giant Drums of water and then you bring them back and you're like like the whole time you're just like I don't need water I don't need water I don't and then and like one day because my cousin was shredded like just because of that every single day was him just lifting a barrel which like 400 pounds on a wheelbarrow just pushing that every single day and then one day I remember I was like I can do this and I took it and I was like whoa whoa whoa whoa and then all the water gone just like all of it yeah and then I was like well well you shouldn't have let me take the wheelbarrow I just pulled the Ben cost and I was like that was your bad did I know my life would turn out like this since I was a kid yeah yeah I remember when I was like four years old and then there was like this little kid who like pushed me to the ground and then I was like one day I'm gonna be host of The Daily Show no I I get what you're saying and I'm joking obviously I'm being facetious um no I had no clue I know nor did I wish for that I'll be honest with you I like I was I still joke with my mom about that till this day I go I did not know where life would take me or how life would end up all I knew is that I wanted to be able to afford to buy as much food as I wanted to buy like at any time that was like the big thing in my life because like when you don't have money in a family like like for the food decision is the biggest decision you can make so like let me put it this way we would go out for like take out maybe once a month if we were lucky and I remember the pressure that I was under because you get the menu and then they'd be like do you want a burger or do you want pizza oh and I was just like ah don't mess this up don't mess this up it was such a big decision and I remember one day I said to my mom I was like one day I'm Gonna Be Rich enough to bite two and then my mom could have been like shut up kid but she was like yeah you will be rich enough yeah and I was like and I'll buy dessert she's like you go buy all the desserts all of the dessert and so then now my mom was like do you did you buy the dessert and she put in my tummy she like looks like you bought the dessert in Africa like so my mom she would let me watch like a sex scene in a movie she would be like I don't care about that but if kids were playing with food she'd make me turn the movie off so whenever so that whenever I was like I used to watch those High School movies those American movies and then you know there'd always be a food fights in the cafeteria then my mom would be like turn it off turn it off and then I'll be like what do you mean she's like why are they wasting food then I was like it's a movie she's like but it's real food it's real food it's real food okay how can you waste food like that and then I was like like look it's like my mom was going you know you like parents would go there children starving my mom was like we are starving in Africa we're starving why are they wasting food the first time I remember hearing a joke as a child was actually I was with my grandfather and we were at a protest in the streets uh in South Africa and I don't know what the protest was for I'm assuming it was anti-apartheides or whatever but I was very young and I was my grandfather and walking marching through the streets and a policeman came by on a horse and like policemen on horses it's like yo you like no one is comfortable do you know what I mean like just generally as black people we're never like yay yeah he's gonna do the thing no you were terrified at least we're on the horse and and this guy was like trying to move the crowd along move that and he's like move move bloody hell move move and he got to my grandfather and then my grandfather turned to and the guy looking he's like hey why aren't you moving and my grandfather turned to him and he said he said Musta Musta can I ask you a question and this guy was like what what what did you say he said can I ask you a question master and he was like and then he asked him a question and to give you the context that weekend the previous weekend the um there was a our version of the Kentucky Derby took place and then the winning horse was celebrated and the president went and gave a kiss to the to the horse that won like kissed and was like on the front page of the newspaper the president kissing the horse and so then so that's the context so my grandfather turns to the company he's like can I ask you a question and the cop is like what what do you want and he says Master why is it that your president can kiss a horse but he won't kiss my sister and like you could see the cop was just like he's like what and he's like I don't know and I was like and then my grandfather turned to him and he's like because you haven't seen my sister and I'll never forget the policeman's face like he burst into tears left because he was like and then he just started laughing at my grandfather's laughing and I'd never seen two things I had never seen like a policeman laughing with black people ever before it was my first time seeing that and it was just my first time seeing like how a joke could diffuse tension how you know what I mean and then I just remember growing up I was like oh I want to do that thing I wanna yeah I want to do that thing More Diapers I hate changing diapers I don't have kids well I just hate changing diapers I have two younger brothers so I changed their diapers when I was growing up and then at some point with my youngest brother who's 20 years younger than me I was just like you just You're Gonna Keep [ __ ] so just don't wear pants and I was like it's easier to poop or scoop this person than it is like so then my little brother would just come I teach him the thing was he just come running up to me and then he'd be like Trevor poo poo and then I'd be like all right then we just run outside and then I'd make him [ __ ] in the garden like I would I would like fold him I'd hold his legs and his body and then like I'd hold him like this and then he'd like he'd like a little turtle in my hands and then I would hold him and then he would [ __ ] and then he'd be like dudus JuJu's and I'll be like finished then he's like doo-doos then I'm like all right cool I'm gonna shake him a little bit and then I'll take him yeah and then I'll take him and stand and then I would spray him down with a hose pipe to take him and he loved it he wasn't he was like this is the greatest experience ever and then I would be like just don't tell Mom what we're doing and then he'd always tell Mom he'd always be like ah mommy Trevor spreaded me with those pipes then I'm like Jesus kids you're killing me yeah he would love it it was just like a fun and then I remember like one of the funniest things like like a year or something later we're sitting together watching TV and we're watching footage of police spraying people with like a like like protesters with water hoses and then he looks at me he's like did they do do this I was like no no so in my family my two younger brothers are um so from my mother's second marriage and so I'm still the only person in my family who looks like this so my mom is a African woman black Casa woman my my father Swiss from Switzerland so he was a white man and so I look like this and then my mom remarried a black man so my brothers don't look like me either right and I remember what was really beautiful was my brothers we always spoke about this stuff so my parents they were like yeah different dads we get how this works so my brother one day I pick him up from school right he's like he's really young at the time but maybe like I think it was a 19 maybe 10 years old and he gets in the car and he's like he's just deflated he gets in the passenger seat and he fastens these seat belts I'm like what's going on Isaac and he's like hey Trevor he's like oh kids man I can't do this kids so I go kids tell me more and then he's like I just I just don't know what to do with kids Trevor you know like today one of my friends said oh are we walking home then I said no my brother's picking me up then he said ah who's your brother then I said Trevor then now when we're walking he sees you in the car then he says who's that then I say it's my brother then he says Ah but how can you can you how can your brother be white then I said he's not white he's not white he's mixed then he said but you not mix you don't look the same how can your brother not look the same then so now I'm like oh man I'm gonna have to like go through this so then I'm like so so what did you say to him he's like ah Trevor like I'd have to explain it the way kids understand he said I just said to him I said really you've got to understand like people are like chocolates okay like like you can have like a white chocolate and you can have a dark chocolate and you can have a milk chocolate but it's all Nestle okay [Applause] any questions oh you're good okay house oh how's foofy wow that's a deep cut man you can just ask me that like just random you got to be like hey Trevor so I read in your book and the you can't just be like housefully because my mind who the hell no because because filthy died so for those of them so I I had a I had a dog when I was growing up like one of the dogs we had we um my mom was working at a pharmaceutical company and her colleague came came to work one day and was like hey my neighbor's dog um impregnated my dogs and I have all these puppies I don't want and they're like this weird mix of like a bull terrier and a Maltese poodle so do you want to take them and then I was like all right I'll take two and then my mom brought them home and I'd never had a dog before and I was like this is the most amazing thing in the world and we raised them and it was two beautiful dogs they look completely different but they were sisters they were the best fufi and panther and my mom called the one Panther because she had a pink nose or the Pink Panther and then uh and fufi was like the dumbest most beautiful dog ever and panther was the smartest ugliest dog you've ever seen and so like like I loved foofy the most because she just like looked really vicious and I used to think that foofy was really stupid and then one day what happened was um like at our house somebody was trying to like come into the house like like a family friend and they were trying to open the the the the gate and then they moved the gate and then the gate fell and then Panther ran away because she they like to sleep by the gate and then Panther around but then foofy didn't and then the gate hit her and then like it broke her spine it was devastating so then we went to the vet and then like the vet was like I can't help her you know we've got to put it down put out of a misery and the vet was like but this was amazing how were you guys like how did you guys raise a deaf dog and we were like what and he was like we're like what do you mean a deaf dog and he was like oh like afterwards like I just when I was just going through examining her while she's still like living I realized that that she wasn't born with I guess a certain part of the cochlea or something and we were like wait the stock was deaf the whole time thank you and we just genuinely I literally just be like foofy sit listen to me said fluffy I was like you're so dumb you're so dumb and I never knew that the dog and then we realized what used to happen was when we'd call the dogs we'd be like fluffy Panther and fufi would never come but Panther would come running sometimes then she'd like look at you and then she'd run back and then they would both come and I always used to be like poofy's just dumb and then I realized Panther was like ah she didn't hear and then she'd go back and fetch her and then shoot then both of them would come and then like now I went back and I was like baby I miss you baby so that's how foofy's doing she's uh yeah what happened to Teddy from my book and what's funny is randomly one day I I uh was I was driving to a car dealership I I bought an Audi and I went to the car dealership because I needed them to help me with something and they said um we will um we'll call our top mechanic and just give you a bit of a backstory Teddy was my best friend in primary school and him and I used to go shoplifting together and then one day like we were like busted shoplifting and then we ran away and then they caught Teddy but then they didn't catch me and then they got that security footage of what happened and they went to all the schools in the area looking for who was shoplifting with Teddy and then they didn't know it was me because the security camera was black and white was like the old school black and white cameras and so they were like we're looking for a white kid because on the camera it just in black and white it shows the camera chose white so then at the school they asked me they were like Trevor come in here they're like you're friends with Teddy I was like uh-huh and they're like well Teddy was called shoplifting I was like uh-huh they're like there was someone with him I was like uh-huh they're like it was a white kid who was he I was like huh and then they just never caught me and then Teddy never snitched or anything and like I and then but I he got expelled from the school and I thought like he went to jail or something so and I never I never knew where he ended up in like 10 years later maybe even more I was uh yeah I had an Audi drove to an Audi dealership because they wanted to help me with something and I pulled in and I said can you help me they said oh this is complicated let's call our top technician mechanic and then they called the guy like they're like CEO come out and then he came out and then it was Teddy and I was like Teddy [Applause] that was yeah so that's what happened to Teddy all right let's do this that was different and he was just like what are you crying about how's that guys it's like dude we're stealing chocolate bars why would you be thinking why do we think I'll go to other U.N to jail for life it's it's funny in South Africa we have a we have a saying and you must remember because of so many of the struggle leaders in South Africa were either imprisoned or exiled the movement in South Africa was held together in large part by women in the country and so it's weird for me because I understand you travel the world you understand that everywhere feminism is different and the idea of women is different but I grew up in a world that was very matriarchal and where women were the most dangerous Freedom Fighters that existed this is true you read up on you read up on Winnie Mandela like Nelson Mandela was an icon but the police in the country were afraid of of Winnie Mandela you know they were and we had a phrase in South Africa that was we still use it today which was which means you strike a woman you strike a rock and that's what I grew up learning that's a it was Kudos man it was fire it was fire and a lot of the time my mom would strike me with a rock and oh foreign [Music]

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Length: 18min 57sec (1137 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 05 2020