Trevor Noah

Trevor Noah
Noah at the 2015 Dubai Comedy Festival
Born	(1984-02-20) 20 February 1984 (age 33) Johannesburg, South Africa
Medium	Stand-up television film books
Years active	2002–present
Genres	Political/news satire observational comedy surreal humor black comedy insult comedy deadpan
Subject(s)	Mass media/news media/media criticism American politics South African culture current events religion pop culture race relations racism human sexuality
Website	www.trevornoah.com

Trevor Noah (born 20 February 1984) is a South African comedian, writer, producer, actor, media critic, and television host. Noah has hosted The Daily Show, a late-night television talk show on Comedy Central, since 28 September 2015.

Trevor Noah was born on 20 February 1984 in Johannesburg. His mother, Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah, is black and of Xhosa ethnicity, and his father, Robert, is white and of Swiss German ethnicity. When Trevor was 10 or 11 years old, his mother (although not the rest of the family) chose to convert to Judaism. Noah spent his early youth in the private school of Maryvale College, a Catholic school in Johannesburg. During his childhood, he attended Roman Catholic church every Sunday. His parents' relationship was illegal at the time of his birth under apartheid (extraracial sexual relations and marriages were legalized under the amended Immorality Act of 1985, a year after Noah was born). His mother was jailed and fined by the South African white minority government, and his father later moved back to Switzerland. Noah himself was raised by his mother and maternal grandmother, Nomalizo Frances Noah.

When he was 18 (in 2002), Noah had a starring role on the South African soap opera Isidingo. He then began hosting his own radio show Noah's Ark on Gauteng's leading youth radio station, YFM. Noah dropped his radio show and acting to focus on comedy, and has performed with South African comedians such as David Kau, Kagiso Lediga, Riaad Moosa, Darren Simpson, Marc Lottering, Barry Hilton and Nik Rabinowitz, international comedians such as Paul Rodriguez, Carl Barron, Dan Ilic and Paul Zerdin, and as the opening act for Gabriel Iglesias in November 2007 and Canadian comedian Russell Peters on his South African tour.