Trevor’s Family on Between the Scenes | The Daily Show

so in my family my two younger brothers are um uh so from my mother's second marriage and so i'm still the only person in my family who looks like this so my my mom is uh african woman black plus a woman my my father swiss from switzerland so he was a white man and so i looked 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 nineteen maybe ten years old and he gets in the car and he's like just deflated he gets in the passenger seat and he fastens his seat belts and i'm like what's going on isaac and he's like 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 your brother how can your brother be white then i said he's not white he's not white his mix then he said but you're not mixed 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 have to explain it the way kids understand he said i just said to him i said zueli you gotta 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 any questions oh you're good okay how's oh how's foofy wow that's a deep cut man you can't just ask me that like just random you got to be like hey trevor so i read in your book and you can't just be like house food because my mind went who the hell no because because floofy died so for those of you 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 i was like hey my neighbor's dog um impregnated my dog so 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 i was like all right i'll take two and then my mom brought them home and i'd never had a dog before i was like this is the most amazing thing in the world and so we raised them and it was two beautiful dogs they look completely different but they were sisters they were the best foofy 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 panto was the smartest ugliest dog you've ever seen and so like like i loved fufi the most because she just like looked really vicious and i used to think that fufi 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 gate and then they moved the gate and then the gate fell and then panther ran away because she they like sleep by the gate and then panther ram but then fufi 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 what do you mean a death 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 she wasn't born with i guess a certain part of the cochlear or something and we're like wait this dog was deaf the whole time and we just genuinely i'd literally just be like foofy listen to me sit fulfilled 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 foofy panther and fuji 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 foofy'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 she would then both of them would come and then like now i went back in my mind was like i miss your birthday so that's how roofie's doing she's uh yeah 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 there 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 fight 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 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 their children starving my mom was like we are starving in africa we're starving why are they wasting food when is my mom gonna be on the show never here's the thing with my mom two things one she has no interest in television or any of these things that i do she just loves the fact that i can pay the rent and she loves me for who i am she genuinely does not care for all of these things and i'll give you an example this is how this is how not interested in it my mom is right my mom two two and a half years ago i met lionel richie for the first time and growing up lionel richie was the soundtrack to me and my mom's lives right so like sunday morning she'd be playing sunday morning the two of us would be there we'll be dancing together play all of lionel richie's song we'll be singing them in the house together and then i meet lionel richie so i'm like this is amazing lionel richie my mom and i we used to dance to your music when i was a kid can i take a picture i'm gonna send it to my mom i don't my mom doesn't care about any celebrity so i'm like this is the one time mom's gonna be like wow you met lionel richie so i took the picture and i sent it to my mom and then emailed it to her i was like mom look huh what do you think and then she replied she's like wow you're getting fat i was like okay but uh okay let's move over that first of all the camera adds 20 pounds um but let's talk about the other person in the picture lionel richie and then she was like oh yes oh that's nice i was like oh okay oh wow okay that was the thing she like she just genuinely and then like four or five days ago i guess she was on the internet which she doesn't regularly do she goes emails and then she's done and she was on the internet and then my brother like was going through pictures of me or something and then she was like hey i saw a picture of you and lionel richie when did that happen i was like it happened when i sent you the picture two and a half years ago and then she was like which picture she's like oh the picture where you were fat then i'm like ah how's my grandmother doing oh she's fantastic man 90 91 years old and 10 months um yeah she me she makes me count the years in and months as well now it's a new thing she's she's did she cook for me no she's too old oh no no no she even says to me i was like what do you do she's like oh me she's like i just enjoy being alive and then all she does is she uh we're ready yeah all she does is she she chills at home like she's got like a like her squad of grannies and they all just come and hang out and she it's like it's like it's like a weird team of like superheroes where they've all got their specialties and then hers is that her memory is bulletproof so all her friends ask her about things they've forgotten about in life but i'm like like she's got a better memory than me my mom everybody she can tell you what your thing happened what month everything and so her friends come over and they'll be and they'll ask like random questions they'll be like normally like where where did i meet my husband and then she'd be like oh you met her and then she like tell stories and it's amazing to watch yeah and so all she does all day she just she loves writing that's what she does and i asked her why and she said she says to be 91 and know how to still read and write oh i'm so blessed so that's what she does yeah did i do anything fun while i was on vacation actually i did so i went back home to south africa um went to check up on yeah it was just fun i went went to check on my like the foundation um went to catch up with my people um and it's funny because every time i go home people always shout at me about going home which is a weird thing so like i'll get home and then at the board of like literally at customs the woman was like she's like trevor when are you coming home and i was like i'm home she's like no but when are you coming home and i was like but i'm here right now you're holding my passport she's like no that doesn't count trevor that doesn't count trevor we miss you then i'm like but it's not like you saw me like i said like i was just running around in the streets every day it's like no trevor come home i'm like i'm home but then what was crazy and amazing was i saw i was in cape town and then my um a friend of mine called me and said yo trevor what are you doing and i said uh i'm i'm waiting i'm gonna go to an event later today and he's like oh because the president wants to meet you so it's like the president of what no because i just didn't assume that the president like i was like the pr could be like the president of this company the president of like the students association the prayer i don't know so i'm like which president and he's like the president of the country then i was like like what did i what did i do like he's like no he just he just wants to like he wants you to come and say hi so he wants you to come to like the the like to to the presidential you know the presidential homestead in cape town and just come and say hi i was like okay okay and so then i was with my friends and i was like uh guys come we gotta go do this thing and my friend's like all right let's roll and then they rolled with me but i didn't tell them what it was and i didn't realize in the moment that i didn't tell them what it was so like my friend's like wearing a hoodie my friends wearing like a free t-shirt and then we and i'm wearing a suit because i'm going to another event and then we get there and then they're like what are we here to pick up and then i say to the person that comes i'm like oh we're here to see the president and then my friend's like dude i'm wearing a hoodie and i was like oh i'm sorry i'm sorry i didn't i forgot to tell you where we were going and so then we went in and then we met the president and he was just very cool like you know and then my friend like he apologized he's like i'm so sorry mr president i did not know i was meeting a president today that's why i'm dressed like this and then the person was cool he's like no he's like i didn't know i was meeting you guys that's why i dressed like this and it was cool he was nice about it and then just out of nowhere the president was like trevor he's like what are you doing now he said come with me to parliament i want to introduce you so he like takes me you know to our congress and he's like to parliament and he's just like just come with me and so he's like walk with me and now you're like on the presidential power walk and i'm like just what do you do on this walk and he's like you just act like you're thinking of serious things and so i'm walking next to him the whole time and i'm just like yes nuclear war immigration unemployment and so we walked together and then we get to parliament and then when we got there he introduced and it was one of the most surreal moments of because it's one of those things that you you you take for granted because it happens gradually in life but i genuinely just had to breathe like a few days afterwards and be like yo you were in parliament and the president of your country was like okay give a round of applause to trevor noah he's giving back to the country and we love him and and literally in that moment i was sitting there and i was like god dad where is my history teacher now [Applause] what what what if there was one aspect of south african culture that i could transplant to america what would it be huh what would it be i think it would be um maybe our general either talking about uh race and our racial past you know because south african america have very similar histories you know in that there was like there were many things that were done to people of color that were extremely heinous but we we just maybe because of the truth and reconciliation commission in our country we were forced to talk about it and we just talk about it it's painful but we laugh about it and it's out there whereas in america i find there's like a lot of tension in and around that a lot of people are just like oh come on we don't have a do we have to bring that up and it's like dude i'm not saying you did slavery calm down you know what i mean because that's how a lot of people treat it they're just like i wasn't there i didn't say you were there i'm just like slavery happened yeah but i swear i wasn't dude you're 37 calm down you know what i mean and i feel like there could be it it helps to be able to have conversations about those things because then it helps you understand how you got to where you got to but if you can't have those conversations then you just have to operate in a blind space of like how did this happen you know why do so many black people live in this part of harlem i don't know why do you think i don't know do you get what i'm saying and it actually opens it up i think that would be like the one part and it doesn't fix everything don't get me wrong but i do think it makes it easier to address issues to have conversations when you can just be like yeah man this happened you know what i mean you can just be like yeah that was that was crazy that was a while that that happened that this happened that you and and then and that's the thing a lot of the time people think it's about assigning blame but it's not it's about addressing what happened so that everyone can move forward and understand why things need to be fixed or how they got there in the first place does that make sense like imagine [Applause] imagine if like your doc like you want to talk to your doctor about something that happened inside your body and then you know your doctor scans and then you're like doc i think i think i might have like a cancer doctor like i wasn't there i wasn't eating with you you're like no i just need your help fixing it yeah i wasn't there though i wasn't eating it's like no man just chill out you know i mean let's talk that's the one thing i'll transplant that and chickens that don't like do weights and stuff that's the other part like chickens that just like are normal because american chickens is just like what what what like once i saw them i was like i'm sorry what is that the thing i'm eating oh like i remember when i first saw a chicken wing in america this is the this is the dumbest thing you've ever heard and you're gonna judge me but i judge you back i remember the first time i had a chicken wing in america is like i ordered like buffalo wings okay and i i know this sounds crazy but the reason i was intrigued because i saw it on someone else's plate and then i was like what are those and someone said those are buffalo wings and i was like oh is this like a part of the buffalo that i don't know and i was like i want to taste buffalo wings and then i remember eating it then i was like it's sort of like chicken there's someone's like it is chicken and i was like but it's buffalo and then they're like no it's chicken then i was like but what chicken is this i was like how big is the wing of this chicken what what what dinosaur chickens do you guys have here because that's not the size of any normal chicken anywhere in the world so yeah i would i would that's the one other thing i would bring is just like normal animals normal that's all yeah i bring normal animals and conversations about race [Music] you

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Published: Tue Jun 01 2021