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Trevor Noah, Born A Crime, Published in Nov, 15 2016

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Trevor Noah, Born A Crime, Published in Nov, 15 2016

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Trevor Noah was a 18 year old boy who wrote "Born A Crime", he was born in South Africa in the year 1984 in Febuary the 20th. His father's name is Robert and his mothers name is Patricia Nombuyiselo. His mom is a Christan women, she believes in a lot of deep religious thoughts. Therefore they go to the church quiet often, not only one but multiple.

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"I was nine years old when my mother threw me out of a moving car." (1)

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Trevor Noah was facing a issue because they didn't have transportation. Him, his mother, and his younger brother were about to go to church one day and they decided to take the bus, this was because their car had broke down. According to Trevor's religious mother's thoughts she had this feeling that this was a sign from god. He personally didn't want to go to church that day but due to his mom he had to go along.

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"Under apartheid the government provided no public transportation for blacks, but white people still need us to show up to mop their floors and clean their bathrooms. Necessity being the mother of invention, black people created their own transit system, an informal network of bus routes, controlled by private associations operating entirely outside the law." (14)

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A little bit about Travor Noahs background;and what he does for living now

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Trevor Noah (born February 20, 1984, Johannesburg, South Africa) is a South African comedian, television host, political commentator, and author who is perhaps best known as the host (2015-22) of the American television series The Daily Show. He is also noted for his stand-up comedy shows, in which he often incorporated observations about growing up in South Africa.

Noah's mother was a Xhosa woman from South Africa, and his father was a white man from Switzerland. Noah was born under apartheid, and, because interracial relationships were illegal, his parents had to hide their relationship from authorities. Noah was raised by his mother and grandmother in Soweto, an urban area just outside Johannesburg that was set aside for Black people. Fearing for his safety, they sometimes had to hide Noah from the police because biracial children were often taken from their parents. When he was about 10 years old, apartheid ended.

In 2002 Noah had an uncredited bit part in an episode of the South African soap opera Isidingo. He then hosted an educational show on a family public television channel before hosting the radio show Noah's Ark. When he was 22 years old, friends dared him to perform a comedy routine at a nightclub. He entertained the audience with humorous stories about his friends and his life. After that night Noah continued performing at comedy clubs, gaining more and more fans along the way. As his popularity increased in South Africa, he began hosting television shows-including a sports show and a dating game show-as well as major awards shows. In 2008 Noah appeared as a contestant on the reality dance competition show Strictly Come Dancing.

In 2009 Noah performed in his first solo comedy show, The Daywalker. The sold-out event was held in a 1,100-seat theatre in Johannesburg, and the DVD recording of the show became a best seller. He later hosted the television talk show Tonight with Trevor Noah (2010-11). In 2012 Noah performed a second solo show, The Racist, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, in Scotland; he later toured with the show. Also in 2012 Noah, who had moved to the United States, became the first South African comedian to appear on the American television talk show The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. In 2013 Noah starred in the TV comedy special Trevor Noah: African American. His comedy tours in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East were highly successful, but he remained lesser known in the United States.

In 2014 Noah began appearing as a correspondent on Comedy Central's satirical television news program The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The next year, after Stewart announced that he was stepping down as host, Noah was announced as his replacement. The Daily Show with Trevor Noah continued the format of a half-hour news program. The opening monologue typically summarized the day's main stories and included sarcastic or satirical punch lines. It was usually followed by a "mockumentary" feature that consisted of humorous reporting on an unusual or newsworthy topic. The show concluded with an interview segment that typically featured a celebrity or major political figure. Noah's popularity grew in the United States with The Daily Show, especially after he incorporated commentary on international and U.S. current events. In addition, as an outsider he offered a unique perspective that connected with television viewers. After seven seasons, Noah left the show in 2022. His decision was motivated, in part, by a desire to do more comedy tours.

In addition to hosting The Daily Show, Noah continued to tour worldwide, performing stand-up comedy in sold-out venues. He created several comedy specials, including Trevor Noah: Lost in Translation (2015), Trevor Noah: Afraid of the Dark (2017), and Trevor Noah: Son of Patricia (2018). In 2018 Noah partnered with American media conglomerate Viacom to launch Day Zero Productions, an international production and distribution company. Also that year he began the nonprofit Trevor Noah Foundation, based in Johannesburg, to help young people develop skills to succeed as adults in the workforce. In 2019 Noah started On Second Thought, a podcast featuring different opinions on such varied topics as sports, race, and science. He hosted the Grammy Awards ceremony in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.

Noah's memoir, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, was released in 2016. He later published a version of the book for a younger audience titled It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime (2019).

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Trevor Noah | The Daily Show, Book, Comedy, & Biography

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Trevor Noah is a South African comedian, television host, political commentator, and author who is perhaps best known as host (2015-22) of The Daily Show. Also he performs comedy shows, often incorporating observations about growing up in South Africa. Learn more about Noah's life and career.

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Trevor's reputation was based off of his mother, she wasn't known to be a part of a good community. She was a Xhosa women, this means she was a part of the South Africa Nguni. She was accused for being a slut and whore just because she was a Xhosa.

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"Xhosa women were promiscuous and unfaithful. And here was my mother, his tribal enemy, a Xhosa woman alone with two small children-one of them a mixed child, no less." (15)

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Trevor Noah was worried about his surroundings, when his mom had made a run for it. His mom had thrown him out the vehicle because she was not feeling safe, they can't trust anyone. This was due to them being a Xhosa, they even had to run from the police.

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"So I ran, and she ran, and nobody ran like me and my mom. It's weird to explain, but I just knew what to do. It was animal instinct, learning in a world where violence was always lurking and waiting to erupt." (16)

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Trevor was a part of a very unique culture, he was South African but not just any South African. Their colonists had their own classified group that they are recognized as. He was put into a situation due to his mom being a Xhosa, he couldn't do anything about that. There were a lot of opportunities that his mother could not do, she had to go out of her comfort zone to try to achieve what she wanted. His mother found a German man that lived near her. That is how his mother found his father, they weren't allowed to get married because of the different religions but still managed to have a child. This was known to be illegal at that time.

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"...my mother was unhappy at home, and when she was twenty-two she ran away to live in downtown Johannesburg. There was only one problem: It was illegal for black people to live there"

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Inspiration that came from the book, he was born as a crime and he made it out of the struggle

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Trevor Noah on taking "Born a Crime" from the page to students' ears

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Trevor was not close to his family, he didn't have the same gendered person as him close to him besides his grandpa. The world he lived in was ruled by mainly women at that time. The struggle he faced was being able to see his dad, he wasn't close to him because of the separation situation they were in. His grandpa wanted him to be a boxer and always tried getting him practice for that. Also Trevor had to watch his environment very carefully, even though he lived with his family there were some members who didn't like him because of his mother.

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Trevor phased struggles, one of them was looking at his mom trying to fight for freedom. After his mom was exposed to this freedom struggle she started being very religious. They would always pray for the best. Also some people were very poor during this, they couldn't even pay for better ways to do their praying or chants.

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"'Wathint' Abafazi Wathint'imbokodo!' was the chant they would rally to during the freedom struggle." (39)

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This is where Trevor Noah was born. Also this is where his mother met the Swiss German man.

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There was an unexpected day where Trevor had gotten mistakened for a different colored person. That day he relized that he can change the color, not physically but mentally. The way he acts could make others think that he is a certain colored person, basically making assumptions.

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"We weren't trying to take anything from you. We were trying to steal from white people." (56)

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trevor experienced a truamatizing moment with a black cat. There was gunpowder that is flamable and the cat had interacted with it. This caused a flame which had burned Trevors eyebrows off, he tried acting like it wasn't that big of a deal but his mother had still found out.

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Trevor was exposed to knowing both Xhosa and Zulu, this had caused some conflict with him and others. They wanted him to pick one, this was because all the South Africans are suppose to be different from eachother, they don't allow a mutual party.

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Trevor had started to get interested in girls during high-school. Therefore he got a haircut which was ment to impress the girls but it wasn't the best haircut. The barber had messed it up, and they were sort of poor so they couldn't do anything about it. Especially Trevor's mother was pretty upset with Trevor because of that.

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Trevor was interested in dogs, most colored people had dogs was something he had stated. There was a kind women that had offered puppies to his mom at her work, they havn't had a dog in Soweto, that is where they were living in this current moment. This dog was very special to him because it was a childhood pet.

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Trevor wanted to be closer to his father, all though this was not possible. His dad moved furhter away from him to a place called Cape Town, they lost their connections with each other. That is when Abel comes in, he is his mothers new husband, also known as his step father.

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This is the Eden park

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Trevor didn't have many friends to play with, there was a park where a lot of children went to but he wouldt always be by him self. Everyone was colored, it was just that they were all different from him. Being colored caused some rough moments for him.

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"the animosity I felt from the colored people I encountered growing up was one of the hardest things I've ever had to deal with. It taught me that it is easier to be an insider as an outsider than to be an outsider as an insider." (117-118)

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He had ended high-school with the CD business that he started with someone he met in the beggining of his high school years. He had gotten a CD writter from someone off of the internet.

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Trevor had gotten a date, there was a misunderstanding on which girl he was going to go on a date with. The date he was going on a date with was the girl that was mistakened for at first. He had wanted to take a good car to impress her. The BMW car was the car he had wanted to take, it was Abel's car.

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When Trevor started high school he was exposed to a lot of Chinese kids. He became partners with one of them and started to handle money on their own. They started making CD's.

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Their life was finally going well, they had the emoeny to dress well and look wealthy enough. Trevor had a stepfather, his name was Abel, he was known to be very sweet and helpful. Abel turned out to being very traumatizing for Trevor, he was getting questioned by his mother if he had triggered him. Abel was acting unusual and started to abuse both of them. In a moment Trevor had found out that Abel has bought a gun, this was surprising to his mother, she wasn't aware of anything.

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"She said she'd confronted him about it...Not long after that, I moved out."(268)

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The most difficult moment in his life, losing his mother...

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"I remember after the shooting, my mother was in the hospital, and all I felt was rage," Trevor Noah tells PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly Editorial Director Jess Cagle

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As host of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah is known for making people laugh, but the South African comic has overcome great challenges to achieve the success he has today.

Noah, 33, was born during Apartheid to a black South African mother and a white Swiss father. As a young boy, he faced poverty and segregation - and later an abusive stepfather who shot his mother in the head after their divorce.

The host of Comedy Central's popular late-night news satire show sat down with PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly Editorial Director for the latest episode of The Jess Cagle Interview and opened up about one of the scariest days of his life.

He recalls getting a phone call as an adult from his brother saying that his stepfather had shot his mother, Patricia. She miraculously survived after the bullet went into the back of her head and out her nose, missing her brain and arteries. His stepfather was convicted of attempted murder but sentenced only to probation.

"I remember after the shooting, my mother was in the hospital, and all I felt was rage," says Noah. "My mother said to me, 'Don't hate him for doing this, but rather pity him because he too is a victim, in his own way, of a world that has thrust upon him an idea of masculinity that he has subscribed to and is now a part of. As for myself, I do not wish to imbue myself with a hatred that only I will carry.' "

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He admits it took him a while for him to understand exactly what his mother was saying.

"I think watching my mom, her growth post-shooting, our family and the way we became stronger, really became the example that I chose to live by. That's really what I've stuck to, and that's how I try to live my life every day," he says.

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"The mission I have adopted for the show is pursue the truth at all costs," he says, "because that is where the comedy lies."

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Trevor Noah: The Terrible Day His Abusive Stepfather Shot His Mother in the Head

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Trevors mother cared about him and didn't want him to have a bad future. But Trevor had to take a stand and leave and move out after school. Just because his uncle had a bad reputation the mother is scared for him.

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Trevor had now lost trust in everyone, Abel had started to threaten his mom him, and their dog as well. There was no where out of this situation anymore, the last moment he had with his mother was before Abel had shot at her. He was confronting Abel while his mother was on her last breaths, yelling and questiong Abel but didn't get answers.

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"'What are you talking about, 'the bright side'? Mom, you were shot in the face. There is no bright side...She broke out in a huge smile and started laughing."