The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Between the Scenes - Trevor's First Taste of Comedy

Episode Date: September 4, 2018

Trevor shares the story of how he witnessed his grandfather tell a joke to defuse a tense situation with a police officer on horseback. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to Comedy Central. Hey everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast. The Weekly Show is going to be coming out every Thursday. So exciting. You'll be saying to yourself, TGID. Thank God it's Thursday we're going to be talking about. All the things that hopefully obsess you in the same way that they obsess me. The election. Economics. Earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about

ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. And I know that I listed that fourth, but in importance, it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday? I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. The first time I remember hearing a joke as a child was actually, I was with my grandfather and we were at a protest in the streets in South Africa and I don't know what the protest

was for, I'm assuming it was anti-apartheids or whatever, but I was very young and I was with my grandfather and we were marching through the streets and a policeman came by on a horse and like policemen on horses is like you like no one is comfortable do you know what I mean like just generally as black people we're never like yay he's gonna do the thing no you were terrified a policeman on the horse and and this guy was like trying to move the crowd along move and he's like move move move move, bloody hell, move, move. And he got to my grandfather, and then my grandfather turned to him, and the guy looked and he was like, hey, why aren't you moving?

And my grandfather turned to him and he said, he said, he said, master, master, can I ask you a question, master? And he was like, and then he asked him a question, to give you the context, that weekend, the previous weekend, there was our version of the Kentucky Derby took place. And then the winning horse was celebrated, and the president went and gave a kiss to the horse that won. And it was like on the front page of the newspaper, the president kissing the horse. And the the the the the the the the the the the the the president, and the president, and the president, and the president, and the president, and the president, and the president, and the president, and the president, and the president, and the president, and the president, and the president, and the president, the president, and the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, to the horse that won. I kissed and it was like on the front page of the newspaper, the president kissing the horse. And so then, so that's the context.

So my grandfather turns to the cup and he's like, can I ask you a question? And the cop is like, what, what do you want? And he says, Master, why is it that your president can kiss a horse? kiss my sister!" And like you could see the cop was just like he's like what and he's like what I don't know and I was like and then my grandfather turned to him and he's like because you haven't seen my sister and I'll never forget the police in his tasks to their and he was like that the police in his, like he burst into tears laughing, because he was like, well, and then he just started laughing and my grandfather's laughing, and

I'd never seen, two things, I had never seen like a policeman laughing with black people ever before. It was my first time seeing that, and it was just my first time seeing like how a joke could diffuse tension, how, you know what I mean? And then I just remember growing up, I was like, oh, I want to do that thing. I want to, yeah, I want to do that thing more. The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Ears Edition. Watch the Daily Show weeknights at 11th, 10 Central on Comedy Central, and the Comedy Central. Watch full episodes and videos. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and subscribe to the Daily Show on YouTube

for exclusive content and more. This has been a Comedy Central podcast. Hey everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast, The Weekly Show. It's going to be coming out every Thursday. So exciting, you'll be saying to yourself, TGID, thank God it's Thursday. We're going to be talking about all the things that hopefully obsess you in the same way that they obsess me. The election. Economics. Earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking

about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. And I know that I listed that fourth, but in importance it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday? I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast.