151 Quotes by Trevor Noah

In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase.

I want to be in a position where I get to start off fresh. I don't have any preconceived notion of how I should feel.

America is the one place in the world where I just innately understood [that] South Africa and the United States of America have a very similar history. It's different timelines, but the directions we've taken and the consequences - dealing with the aftermath of what we consider to be democracy, and realizing that freedom is just the beginning of the conversation, that's something I've learned.

There's news that happens in different spheres and can be made just as funny, but it's not necessarily in the normal news medium.

I love ebola jokes. When done in the right way, maybe it gets people to learn about ebola, to learn about the stigmas behind the identities held by Africans and so on.

Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.

I'm not a political progressive, but I consider myself a progressive person. What makes me a progressive, in my opinion, is the fact that I try to improve myself and by large improve the world that I'm in - in the smallest way possible.

When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in it. That didn't exist.

In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American context.