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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Did Trevor's Gran Think He Was Famous? - Between The Scenes

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

News, Daily News, Comedy

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

“Fame wasn’t really a currency in that way”. Trevor on how his grandma and his fellow South Africans treat celebrities differently than in America See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:02.6

You have a hand up, yes.

0:06.1

Do you have grandma to tell people that you're famous?

0:09.0

Does my grandma tell people that you're famous?

0:11.0

Oh, my grandmother passed away, so I...

0:14.0

Oh no, it's not sad. She's dead. It was gonna happen.

0:17.0

No, she's 96 years old. This is a thing that happened.

0:21.0

Yeah, yeah, don't... No, no, no, no. It's not like a...

0:24.0

No, really, it's not a sad thing. She probably does in heaven, maybe.

0:28.0

Maybe that's like my... But she never told people that I was famous.

0:33.0

You see, this is an interesting departure from...

0:38.0

I think American celebrity culture in particular,

0:41.0

is that where I grew up and how I grew up,

0:44.0

fame wasn't really a currency in that way.

0:47.0

So we grew up knowing people, but fame wasn't a thing.

0:51.0

Does that make sense? So people would just be like,

0:53.0

ah, Trevor, Trevor, you know what I mean? They'd be happy for me when I got pulled over by the police

0:58.0

when I went home recently, which is very normal.

1:00.0

In South Africa, it's not like a thing. Here, it's like,

1:02.0

ah, something's gonna happen. In South Africa, it's in America, it's like that.

1:05.0

And then in South Africa, they're just like, yeah, everyone pull over, pull over, pull over.

1:08.0

And the cops come and they just chat to you and whatever.

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