The Best of Trevor’s Accents - Between The Scenes | The Daily Show

how do i do it with the accents i i'll be honest with you like i never thought i was good at it or anything but i i think it's because i grew up like that i have a mixed family like everyone in my family has a different accent you know so my dad my dad's family my mom my mom's family everyone has like like a hybrid because everyone moved around a lot so whenever you go to a different house it's just easier to speak to them in their accent than to try no because it was weird as well like because i went to a private school like myself and my my cousins we were all lucky to go to like at the time they called them model c schools in south africa so it was like the first generation of black and white kids at the same schools so we had different accents to our parents and then like your parents were happy to send you that was the funny thing it's like your parents would be like you must go to that school and you must learn to speak good english and then you go to the school and you'd learn the english and then you come home and then like your parents you'd be sitting with them watching tv or something and then like your your dad would be like put volume put volume and you'd be like do you mean increase the volume be like hey i'll increase or decrease your life don't act much here put volume you don't come here with that english and it's like yeah but that's what you told her so then it became easier to just like speak the you know what i mean speak in the accent of the people it changes like you might find you do the same thing do you live in new york or do you live in haiti or you live in haiti okay if you live in new york i know i've got friends from haiti who do like in new york they sound like half haiti half new york and then when they go to haiti i can't understand a word that they're saying like like if if i facetime a friend of mine who's in haiti when he's in new york he'll be like yeah man you know you know and i'll hear a little bit of haiti and then when he's in haiti and i'll facetime with him and i'll be like yo what's up vince how you doing he'll be like why you said i'm like what what everyone everyone so i think that's where i got it from i just you know yeah just having mixed people you just speak to them in the ex it becomes easier otherwise you know like my grandmother i'm not gonna repeat the same thing six times i'm just gonna speak to my gran and her accent and then she's just like yeah and then my gran i think that's why i'm actually my grandmother's favorite grandchild because all the other grandkids speak to her in like the accents they learned at school and then with me she's just like oh trevor he's never forgotten his roots what is my favorite accent to do it depends on the day i'm not gonna lie it depends on the day sometimes i'll choose an accent for the day if i'm on vacation genuinely i'll just walk around and i'll like just be on vacation so some days like like i'll just be like oh i'm australian for the day and i'll just walk around i'll just be australia you know the great thing about an australian accent is that you always sound happy because always like it doesn't matter what it is but it always goes up and it's like really exciting you know it's just got that thing like even if an australian gave you bad news it always sounds good it's like hey mate your mum's dead it's just so yeah one of my favorite things to do though is sometimes because i don't really impersonate general accents i'm personally people so the australian that i do is a friend of mine from australia and then like like if i do like a nigerian accent it's a friend of mine from nigeria and because i can't because people all have different accents you know what i mean so i don't know what an indian accent is i know what my indian friend sounds like so i just impersonate his accent and then like trinidad i just know my friend from trinidad this is his accent so just i just do his accent and then i remember like one day i did the trini accent and then people from trinidad they were like they're like that's not how people in trinity talk about and then i was like yo you talk to him that's how he sounds and then they shout on him because he's on like instagram and stuff and they're like dude what happened to your accent why are you talking like there's like guys i haven't lived in america i've lived in america for a long time and like it's not my fault i didn't try to change my accent they're like you're leading trevor no are wrong you're not speaking nowhere we're supposed to so i'm just like i just do people that's all i'm doing well who else do we have from where yes egypt oh very nice that's cool cool and exotic yes how things going over there just blink if it's good and blink twice if it's bad i won't say your name i won't put you on camera you can go back your president doesn't have to know you were here things are good in egypt [Music] uh when you when you watch donald trump does he remind you a little bit of egyptian leaders yeah a lot yeah it's just like just without the arabic just like sagan they're also what right oh they are friends yeah yeah he is you can see that you could be like i feel like trump would be exactly the same even if he spoke arabic it would be like the same thing [Applause] i try to start learning german because my dad is swiss german right and so i was like i want to learn his language because i never learned it growing up and then someone was they were like why don't you learn swiss and then i heard swiss and i was like no i'll rather learn german and so i learned german because i thought it would bring us closer together right because i lost contact with my dad like 10 years and so then when i met him again i was like i want to learn german and impress him whatever and i met him and then like i started speaking to him in german and he was like what are you doing i was like i'm speaking german he's like no it's better if you speak english no no this is no this is he's like it's better if you don't speak german at all it's fine um but then now i could speak a bit of german so i was excited to go to germany and stuff and practices then you know i had a lot of fun until i found out that my the way i spoke german sounded a little bit like hitler yeah which no one told me on this side of the world because we don't know how he really spoke or anything but i would be in germany and apparently the way i would hit certain inflections would freak people out and it's like think of it like barack obama's voice like if someone learned english in america and they got here and they were like uh i just want to have a you'd be like hey you're doing the barack obama thing and they'd be like what are you talking about you know what i mean so i would do that like i'd go into places and then i'd like order food and like someone would be there and be like uh that's what you haven't and then i'll be like ish in heaven and the people like people look at me and then when we left my friend was like i was like why would they look did i say it weird like wrong the wrong word she's like no you sound a little bit like like hitler yeah and she's like and the people are really frightened about that and you know and i was like so i spoiled their day and she was like yeah you did you know and i was like well that brings me a lot of chardonnay spain was fun as we as well i was trying to learn spanish and the weird thing about learning spanish is i found out in spain that my spanish is flawless the problem is i only speak like seven words of spanish but those seven words are flawless which doesn't help me in like so i'll start conversations with people like in the morning someone would see me and they'd be like hola and then i'd be like and they'd be like oh god and i'll be like and they'll be like oh this is cool you know and i'll meet people i'll be like hey come on and they'll be like oh my nombre es sonia i'll be like oh god yeah you know and i'll get into a vibe and i'll be with the people i'll be asking people stuff i'll be giving directions and then i just run out because i only learn as much as i can learn but you don't know when you're gonna run out you get what i'm saying so so i would be like i'll be like dondo esta catada and then the people are like oh look at the and then i would be i'll be like okay i know that and i'll give direction then someone would ask me where's the cathedral then i know how to start the direction so i'd be like oh endoscientos and then people are like cool and because you should say me no habla in the worst way you can which i didn't realize because i should have been like oh me no habla espanol but instead i was like oh no habla espanol which is basically like the equivalent of meeting like someone and they came up to you and they're like i'm sorry i don't speak any english i apologize no i speak no english whatsoever oh i must apologize not a word of english i'm so sorry did i hear somebody was there a french person who has had a fiance is that very cool man congratulations it was nice it was weird because i was listening to you when you're speaking and i was like it's weird because fiance is french isn't it because i know this sounds weird but in my head you said oh yeah no and this is my fiancee and then i was like what's the french for fiance is that a little bit weird to you that in english you have to say some french words every now and again right because like that's the thing like we do that we'll be like we'll be like fiance entrepreneur you know like like think about we do that like touche we just say that to each other in conversation as people someone will say something you say something back you're like oh touche but like i don't think french people do you guys do that with english or like french people just hanging out with each other and it's like you touch me you do that you don't right this is weird it's totally weird to me we just use other languages in our language that's really strange that's exciting man so again french fries are not french i like how you said that with passion and french fries they are not french trevor i have to tell you all of these secrets the french fries are not fresh but do you eat them in france so why are you complaining that's right you guys are also like where are these french fries from they say they are from france jean-pierre are these yours no they are not michelle these are your friends no they are not your friends who are their friends from they said they are french fries but no first person knows where they're from [Laughter] oh man what made you move from france what you said 17 years you've lived in detroit what made you move say again atlanta sorry atlanta what you just walked oh [ __ ] did you say work oh sorry your accent because you said no i walk and then i was like god damn i was like wow that's one hell of a journey my friend it's just like one day i was walking i was walking by therefore tower and i said i've seen this before i've seen all of this before i'm going to walk a little further and then i walked and i walked and i walked some more and then a few years later i was like atlanta then i was tired so i stayed there's no reason to go back oh wow that's fine and then you fell in love with atlanta and you stayed no what happened [Laughter] oh man so you go to atlanta the recession happens so now you're stuck in atlanta that is so dope i feel like i should make a tv show about you man that's like a fun story it's like i ended up in atlanta and now this is my life how did you make money i became a rapper in the atl i became the only french trap rapper [Music] [Applause] accepted oh trinidad on tobago although you guys say that oh trinidad and tobago you know what like i love about people in trini like is the like the sing-song vibe when you guys speak you got that thing i told you the other day like i can't picture anyone from trinidad being a mean person just like you can't picture like you can't go to war people from trinidad you can't no one would be afraid of you you know we're going to invade your country all of you are about to feel the pain like it just doesn't work as an accent it's like it's you can only be an island country because of that like if liam neeson was from trinidad you wouldn't have gotten like a kid like liam neeson we were on the phone and be like i have a particular set of skills i don't think you understand right now if you don't bring back my daughter why are you laughing stop laughing while i'm talking to you stop laughing i was thinking like i think part of the problem in america is that 9-1-1 people think of 9-1-1 as being instant response and because like when i was growing up in south africa one of my favorite tv shows i used to watch with my mom was a show called rescue911 right with william shatner and it was like a show where they go like 911 you have an emergency and be like hi i'm in my house or something whatever and then like 9-1-1 would get there and i remember even when we were watching inside we'd be like wow 9-1-1 9-1-1 and this is in africa i mean like 9-1-1 and we never thought of our numbers because they started they tried a thing in south africa called ten triple one because they're trying to be like yeah we've also got a thing people like ten triple one was like no and because they try to go with that feeling but we never thought of it as instant response because if you would call our like call centers it wouldn't be as efficient and so like in america i think people are used to the fact that something will get done now so i was thinking what you should do is just like dull it for a bit you should bring the south african operators here just so that people stop thinking 911 is like an instant solution because like south african like they'll ask you questions like in america they just go someone's getting robbed like we're on our way like i heard with 9-1-1 even if you call them and then hang up they'll come to check what happened which i i mean i get it but i'm also like that's crazy whereas in south africa like if you like if they called if you had some african operators doing 9-1-1 like you'd call he'd be like hello there's a man at the park and they'd be like hello can i help you he'd be like yeah there's a man at the park and we like ant like yeah he looks really suspicious be like okay go talk to him ask him what he's doing ask him his name what he's doing there be like i'm scared of talking to him but like okay walk away then go away like they would just be like you go like it's just people here just like the cops are going no the cops are not coming for everything like hey you can call 911 because your cat is in a tree that is some crazy [ __ ] in africa that you just be like yeah you'll be like hello my cat's in the tree they'd be like oh okay yeah you'd be like i need what would my cat stuck in the street they'd be like yeah so what must we do and you help it they'll be like then how will your cat land let the kids suffer it will never do it again thank you for calling please stay on so you can rate this call thank you very much i wanted to share this little story with you i um i got into a little bit of trouble with the uh french governments i know the french governments um so what happened was let's start at the beginning uh france won the world cup and so and so on the show i uh uh we we celebrated that and i had this joke where i said i said africa won the world cup yeah and i was shocked at how angry a lot of french people got like genuinely a lot of french people were angry and they were like oh trevor how can you say this why would you say these things you know this is horrible and i was like okay i get it like not everyone likes every joke that you tell and i i get that but this was interesting i got a letter from the ambassador the ambassador of france and and i'll i'll read it to you it was it was about that joke and he says um i'll try to read it how i hope he wrote it which was um he said sir i watched with great attention your july 17 show when you spoke of the victory of the french team at the 2018 fifa world cup russia final which took place last sunday i heard your words about an african victory nothing could be less true now first of all i think it could have been less i could have said there was scandinavian that that would have been less true that would have been less true says as many of the players have already stated themselves their parents may have come from another country but the great majority of them all but 2 out of 23 were born in france they were educated in france they learned to play soccer in france they are french citizens they're proud of their country france the rich and various backgrounds of these players is a reflection of france's diversity france is indeed now that line there was interesting the rich and various backgrounds of these players is a reflection of france's diversity now i'm not trying to be an [ __ ] but i think it's more reflection of france's colonialism because it's not like it's just like random play like they all have something in common like all of those players if you trace their lineage you're like how did you guys become french like how did you how did your family start speaking french oh okay all right i'm gonna say here um he says uh france is indeed a cosmopolitan country but every citizen is part of the french identity and together they belong to the nation of france unlike in the united states of america france does not refer to its citizens based on their race religion or origin to us there is no hyphenated identity roots are an identity roots are an individual reality by calling them an african team it seems you are denying their frenchness this even in just legitimizes the ideology which claims whiteness as the only definition of being french so now here's the thing all right first things first i understand what he's saying because i i read up on this afterwards right i take criticism i'll listen to what somebody says to me you know i i genuinely believe you should and what what it turns out is in france a lot of like nazis in in that country use the fact that these players of african descent to [ __ ] on their frenchness you know so they go you're not french you're from africa go back to where you came from you're not french they use that as as you know as a line of attack now my thing is my opinion is coming from south africa coming from africa and even watching the world cup in the united states of america black people all over the world were celebrating the africanness of the french players right not in a negative way but rather in a positive way going look at these africans who can become french you know what i mean it's it's a celebration of that achievement and so this is what i find i find weird in in these arguments is that people go they're not african they're french then i'm like why can't they be both right why why is that duality only afforded to a select group of people why can they not be african so what what what they're arguing here is in order to be french you have to erase everything that is african because what do they what do they mean when they say that our culture our this is like so so you cannot be french and african at the same time which which i vehemently disagree with i go if you've seen those players i love them paul pogba i've watched all of them like i love those players and i love how african they are and how french they are i don't take their frenchness away but i also don't think you need to take their africanness away you know and that's that is what i love about america america's not a perfect country but what i love about this place is that people can still celebrate their identity in their americanness you can go to a saint patrick's day parade in america celebrating that you are irish you can go to a puerto rican day parade in america still celebrating the fact that you're puerto rican and american at the same time you can celebrate juneteenth as a black person and be like yo i'm african-american which is the duality of the two worlds but here they're going no you are only french and here's here's why it vexes me to be honest this is what i find interesting is like when i read stories from africa and when i watch what politicians say especially in france about african migrants when they are unemployed when they may commit a crime or when they are considered unsavory it's the african immigrants when their children go on to provide a world cup victory for france we should only refer to them as france and we even saw it with that african man who climbed the building to rescue the baby do you remember that we watched him climb that building he rescued the child and then they gave him french citizenship they said you are now french so now i'm going so is he now no longer african is that what you're saying so when he was on the ground he was african and then he climbed up and as soon as he rescued the baby now he's french so if he dropped the baby the african dropped the baby like i don't believe that you need and here's like i say again with respect i understand what the ambassador is saying i'm not joining the attack and i know don't get me wrong i know there's there's like you know we live in a world where like nuance is something that is in short supply and so you will find you know in america for instance the alt-right saying that's what we've been saying they're not french and we're saying it's like but if trevor says it it's not racist but if we say this race is like yeah yeah i'll say yeah you know why because i believe context is everything there are certain things you can say to somebody that like when i say to my friends what's going on my [ __ ] and if a white person came and said the same thing yeah there's a big difference when i'm saying the african i'm not saying it as a way to exclude them from their frenchness but i'm rather using it to include them in my africanness i'm saying i see you my french brother of african descent do you know what i'm saying that's what i'm trying to say when somebody else says it the other way you can use the same line in different ways people like so it's different yeah yeah it's different it can be different it's like somebody's saying oh so if you play with your naked child that's a problem but if i do it i'm a pedophile yeah yeah there's a big difference there's a huge difference so i will continue to praise them for being african because i believe that they are of africa their parents are from africa and they can be french at the same time and if french people are saying they cannot be both then i think they have a problem and not me [Music]

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Length: 23min 51sec (1431 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 04 2021