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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Trevor On Growing Up in South Africa - Between the Scenes

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Comedy, News, Daily News

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

From his favorite toy to the first joke he ever heard, Trevor tells the audience anecdotes about his family and growing up in Soweto, South Africa. 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 know, we're watching...

0:09.2

So we're watching this story about the toy hall of fame,

0:13.2

which is in Rochester, and we're seeing like all the toys that are being inducted.

0:16.4

And so everyone in the office starts talking about their favorite toys growing up, right?

0:20.0

So some people are like, oh yeah, I know for me it was shoots and ladders,

0:23.2

and for me it was the sled, and for me it was this, was that.

0:25.8

And then the people are like, what was your favorite favorite toy growing up?

0:29.6

And I was like, genuinely, my favorite toy growing up was a brick, right?

0:35.2

Which sounds crazy.

0:37.6

But, Spinney, why do you walk away like I'm a crazy...

0:41.2

Like you literally walk away, like I'm saying the wildest thing.

0:44.4

No, because we... So what happened was, no, we had...

0:47.2

When we were growing up, like I'd live at my grandson's house and so forth.

0:51.0

And then what would happen is a lot of kids didn't have toys,

0:53.2

but it wasn't like a sad thing, like, oh, I don't have toys.

0:55.4

We played with whatever we find.

0:57.0

And so the most popular thing, little boys would play with those bricks.

0:59.8

And your brick was... You play with like a toy car.

1:01.8

So you'd like walk around the neighborhood searching for the best brick, right?

1:05.0

Because the game you would play, we didn't put wheels on it anything.

1:07.2

Like someone asked me to do an office at the end, because you put wheels on it.

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