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Trevor Noah on Trump age comedy: 'We plan for the unplannable'

Reliable Sources

CNN

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3.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," discusses the "5:30 curse" of Trump surprises, why it's important to "follow the money," and the importance of context around jokes. Brian Stelter also asks Noah to make predictions about Trump's political future and to recount his favorite joke.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, it's time for a bonus edition of the Reliable Sources Podcast.

0:06.0

It's an interview with the Daily Show Star Trevor Noah.

0:10.0

I'm Brian Stelter, the host of Reliable Sources Sundays on CNN and I recently sat down with Noah at his daily show studio on the far west side of Manhattan

0:19.8

We're going to be showing some of the highlights on TV, but I thought you might want to hear the entire conversation.

0:26.0

I found it to be a really interesting examination of Trump's time in office through the eyes of a comedian. Of course, Noah grew up in South Africa and

0:35.6

he's talked on the Daily Show about his view of Trump, how he likens Trump to an

0:40.8

African dictator.

0:42.8

We talked about that, but also a whole lot more,

0:45.8

including Michelle Wolf's recent controversial comedy

0:49.4

at the White House Correspondence Association,

0:52.1

and about a recent so-called joke involving John McCain.

0:57.1

There was a lot to get into, but I started by asking Noah, who's now been doing this job

1:01.5

for almost three years,

1:03.0

if he's starting to feel like John Stewart's former studio

1:07.0

is now really his home.

1:10.0

I think it's felt like home for a while now and I think home has been less defined by the the space and more the people you know you know better than anyone when you have your team around you grow and you know each other you become

1:23.2

familiar with each other and then it becomes a journey that you're taking together

1:27.6

through a very wild time and I think that's what brings people together a lot

1:31.0

quicker I think we're not for the Trump presidency.

1:33.7

It may have taken me a lot longer to feel like this was home.

1:36.5

And in the first few months of the Trump presidency,

1:38.6

I know your writers and you all were scrambling

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