Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

Thanks as always for clicking for subscribing.

My guest this week is Trevor Noah, the Emmy award-winning host of the Daily Show on Comedy

Central.

A job he inherited from John Stewart a couple of years ago and as he readily admits, everyone

had to Google his name when the news came out.

But it was John Stewart who saw something in Trevor Noah after just three or four appearances

on the Daily Show as a correspondent and thought he could carry the torch and take the job

on to what it is now and what it always has been.

His personal story is absolutely incredible.

We get into a big conversation of that but the cliff's notes are he was born in a partied

South Africa to a African mother and a white father.

That was literally a crime at the time he was born.

You could not have a mixed-race child.

So essentially he had to hide throughout his childhood.

If you were seen on the streets with his mother who was darker than him, he'd raise suspicion.

If you were seen with his father who obviously had lighter skin than him, they would raise

suspicion.

He could have been arrested.

They could have put Trevor into an orphanage.

It's an incredible personal story and then to think that he found humor and a career

and comedy getting out of that.

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