The Daily Show

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Not in my book. And even if it was, what's his excuse for the "jokes" about women?

[scarlet]

In Defense of Trevor Noah...

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Because human beings are, in reality, flawed: prone to errors in judgment or youthful indiscretions or drunk texts/tweets/status updates they really never should have sent. A lot of people have made bad jokes in their 20s. The only difference now is that those jokes are memorialized forever on the Internet — and readily ripped out of their chronological context, and away from their intended audience, as contemporary proof of their sender’s bias or stupidity or ill intent.

This excuse doesn't apply to professional comedians. They don't just fuck around on the internet. They put some real thought into tweets. And the roast comparison is a false equivalence. It's all about context, something that pretty much doesn't exist on twitter. That's why professionals need to think twice before tweeting. A comedian needs to be smart enough to know the difference between offensive-funny and offensive-unfunny. This is basic stuff for comedians and Trevor Noah had been a comedian long enough by 2012 to know better.

[mementomori]

Yeah this kind of garbage takes some of the shine off such an interesting choice for the show. *Tyra Banks voice* "I was rooting for you."

[cabbagekid]

Mar 31, 2015 13:15:41 GMT -4 chonies said:

According to Wikipedia (...I know), his mother is half Jewish. I don't know if that's enough to deflect criticism.

I'm Asian and I've made Asian jokes to friends, but I've also been smart enough to not make them in a public setting or on camera or on the Internet where they'll come back to haunt me. I wish I could say that age is a factor, but I've always been very aware that something I do at 18 can come back and haunt me when I'm in my 30s. And I know not all people are me, BUT I would have at least thought that they would have paid some intern to scrub his twitter account before they announced him as the new host.

With that said though, I don't think the jokes were funny and I was offended by the one about women, but we've all said things before that will offend at least one person on earth. Do I think he should not get TDS job because of it? No, but i do think TDS needs to address his poor taste in humor when he was younger.

[chonies]

Mar 31, 2015 14:14:05 GMT -4 cabbagekid said:

Mar 31, 2015 13:15:41 GMT -4 chonies said:

According to Wikipedia (...I know), his mother is half Jewish. I don't know if that's enough to deflect criticism.

I'm Asian and I've made Asian jokes to friends, but I've also been smart enough to not make them in a public setting or on camera or on the Internet where they'll come back to haunt me. I wish I could say that age is a factor, but I've always been very aware that something I do at 18 can come back and haunt me when I'm in my 30s. And I know not all people are me, BUT I would have at least thought that they would have paid some intern to scrub his twitter account before they announced him as the new host.

I mostly agree. In my experience, even when comedians are offensive-unfunny, they still take various postures, like "it was a reference to..." or they're being ironic, or playing a character, or experimenting with boundaries, or will point to everyone who *did* think it was funny.

I'm not in the mood to let this take up my headspace right now, so I'll just wait a bit and see what happens.

[scarlet]

Comedy Central released a statement:

“Like many comedians, Trevor Noah pushes boundaries; he is provocative and spares no one, himself included. To judge him or his comedy based on a handful of jokes is unfair. Trevor is a talented comedian with a bright future at Comedy Central.”

[Nysha]

Actually Jon was 37 when he took over TDS.

Sorry, I was reading an article that stated he had been hosting The Daily Show for 19 years & subtracted his age from that instead of actually checking it out myself.

[chonies]

Mar 31, 2015 13:23:20 GMT -4 scarlet said:

In Defense of Trevor Noah...

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What did you think of this article, scarlet? It definitely raised some points I've been thinking about.

[scarlet]

Apr 1, 2015 7:10:41 GMT -4 chonies said:

Mar 31, 2015 13:23:20 GMT -4 scarlet said:

In Defense of Trevor Noah...

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What did you think of this article, scarlet? It definitely raised some points I've been thinking about.

I think it raised a lot of valid points for discussion. There does seem to be a vindictive glee of finding something to rail on a person for--especially a person who seemingly came out of nowhere. And I found myself nodding to this:

“We’re trying to define each other by the worst tweet we ever wrote,” Jon Ronson, the author of a new book on online shaming, recently told NPR’s Steve Inskeep. “We’re trying to see people’s tweets as like a kind of clue to their inherent evil, even though we know that’s not how human beings actually are.”