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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

The Best of Trevor’s Accents - Between The Scenes

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

News, Daily News, Comedy

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Trevor speaks numerous languages and has a knack for accents. In these Between the Scenes, find out where Trevor's accent skills came from, why his German sounds like Hitler, what he think Trump speaking Arabic would sound like, and why he got in trouble with the French government.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:02.0

How do I do it with the accents?

0:10.0

I'll be honest with you.

0:11.0

I never thought I was good at it or anything.

0:13.0

But I think it's because I grew up like that.

0:15.0

I have a mixed family.

0:17.0

Everyone in my family has a different accent.

0:19.0

So my dad, my dad's family, my mom, my mom's family.

0:23.0

Everyone has a hybrid because everyone moved around a lot.

0:26.0

So whenever you go to a different house,

0:28.0

it's just easier to speak to them in their accent than to try...

0:32.0

No, because it was weird as well.

0:34.0

Because I went to a private school like myself and my cousins.

0:37.0

We were all lucky to go to...

0:38.0

At the time, they called the Model C schools in South Africa.

0:40.0

So it was like the first generation of black and white kids at the same schools.

0:44.0

So we had different accents to our parents.

0:46.0

And then your parents were happy to send you there.

0:49.0

That was the funny thing.

0:50.0

It's like your parents would be like,

0:52.0

you must go to that school and you must learn to speak good English.

0:55.0

And then you go to the school and you learn the English.

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