The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Between the Scenes - The Story Behind Trevor's Knack for Accents

Episode Date: September 16, 2019

Trevor describes how growing up with his extended family in South Africa gave him the ability to speak in many different accents.This podcast is brought to you by Wondery's new daily sports podcast, The Lead: http://wondery.fm/TheLeadDS Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. How do I do it with the accents? I'll be honest with you, I never thought I was good at it or anything, but I think it's because I grew up like that. I have a mixed family. Like everyone in my family has a different accent. You know, so my dad, my dad's family, my mom, my mom's family, everyone has like a hybrid because everyone moved around a lot. So whenever you go to a different house, it's just easier to speak to them in their accent than to try. No, because it was weird as well, because I went to a private school, like myself and my cousins, we were all lucky to go to, like at the time they called them Model C schools in South Africa.

So it was like the first generation of black and white kids at the same schools. So we had different accents to our parents. And then your parents were happy to send you there. That was the funny thing. It's like your parents would be like you must the their their then you go to the school and you'd learn the English, and then you'd come home, and then like your parents, you'd be sitting with them, watching TV or something,

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