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What Now? with Trevor Noah

Jokes, Outrage, and the New Rules of Comedy with Sam Morril

What Now? with Trevor Noah

SiriusXM & Day Zero Productions

News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Sam Morril joins Trevor and Eugene to talk about comedy in a world addicted to outrage, how algorithms shape our taste, why nuance is disappearing, and what it means to be a comedian when everyone is watching with a scoreboard in their hand.

Transcript

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0:00.0

He's one of my favorite all-time comedians.

0:21.6

Give it up for Mr. Sam Moran! There's a lot going on with you. You just came out with your sixth stand-up special since 2020. He's worked with comics like Conan Colberry as a Netflix special, same time tomorrow that tackles everything from awkward conversations to America's gun epidemic. Don't do morning news just to ruin a segment. I do it all the time. You did a good one in Columbus.

0:22.6

Tell us what we can expect with that.

0:24.6

I'm going to talk about the human trafficking epidemic in Columbus, Ohio.

0:28.6

What is going on with the human... What are you talking about?

0:31.6

I just kept making up the data human trafficking problem in Columbus, and the guy lost it on me.

0:36.6

Is this a joke? Are you trying

0:38.1

to be funny? What are you trying to do? We'll be right back. And it just didn't. Well, I was just

0:41.5

trying to explain. The audience saw just saw the same thing too. Okay, we'll go to break.

0:50.1

This is What Now with Trevor Noah.

0:55.5

This episode is presented by Whole Foods Market.

0:58.4

Eat well for less.

1:05.2

Am I visibly sweaty?

1:07.3

I was like...

1:08.5

You're running here?

1:09.1

Were you running here?

1:09.9

I walk at a brisk pace. Oh, New York. I hate to be late to anything, and I was Were you running here? I walk at a brisk pace.

1:11.6

Oh, New York. I hate to be late to anything. And I was like, if I don't walk at a brisk pace, I'm going to be late. And I was like, you can't cab it at this time either. So it's like, I was like, I got to walk it. No city bike? Oh, dude, I can't ride a bike. Well, like at all. I can, but I'm so bad on a bike.

1:25.3

My balance sucks.

1:26.6

I'm also scared of the bikers in this city.

1:28.4

They're so reckless in the bike lane that I don't want to get. Yeah, but you don't need to worry about them when you're one of them. I do worry about them because I would do it during COVID like on the West Side Highway and they were fucking terrifying. Also you can. Just do zip in bio. I was like, dude.

1:44.7

No, yeah, I can, I'm a bad, dude, I'm, my motor skills are terrible.

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