You're listening to Comedy Central. So in my family, my two younger brothers are um uh so from my mother's second marriage, and so I'm still the only person in my family looks like this. So my my mom is African woman, black pass a woman. My my father Swiss from Switzerland, so he was a white man, and so I looked like this. And then my mom remarried a black man, and so my brothers don't look like me either, right, And I remember what was really beautiful was my brothers.
We always spoke about this stuff. So my parents they were like, yeah, different dads, we get how this works. So my brother one day I picked him up from school, right, he's like he's really young at the time was maybe like so, I think it's the ninety maybe ten years old. And he gets in the car and he's like just deflated. He gets in the passenger's seat and he fastens his seat belts, and I'm like, what's going on, Isaac, And he's like, hey, Trevor, he's like, kids, man, I can't
do this. Kids. So I go with kids, tell me more. And then he's like, I just I just don't know what to do with kids. Trevor. You know, like today one of my friends said, are we walking home? Then I said, no, my brother is picking me up. Then he said, ah, who's your brother? Then I said Trevor. Then now when we're walking, he sees you in the cart. Then he says, who's that? Then I said my brother. Then he says, but how can your brother? How can your brother be white? Then I said he's not white.
He's not white, he's mixed. Then he said, but you're not mixed. You don't look the same. How can your brother not look the same? Then? So now I'm like, oh, man, I'm gonna have to like go through this. So then I'm like, so, so what did you say to And he's like, oh, Trevor, Like I'd have to explain it
the way kids understand, he said. I just said to him, I said, realie, you've got to understand like people are like chocolates, okay, like like you can have like a white chocolate, and you can have a duck chocolate, and you can have a mold chocolate. But it's all nestly Okay. Any questions good? Okay? Yeah, house, oh house foufie. Wow that's deep cut man, You guys just asking me that,
like just random. You gotta be like, hey, Trevor, so I read in your book and the you CAUs just be like house Fuffie because in my mind we knew who the hell no, because because Fruffie died, so for those of them. So I had a I had a dog when I was growing up. Like one of the dogs we had we um. My mom was working at a at a pharmaceutical company and her colleague came came to work when I was like, hey, my neighbor's dog
um impregnated my dogs. And I have all these puppies I don't want and they're like this weird mix of like a Bulteria and a Maltese poodle. So do you want to take them? And then I was like, all right, I'll take two. And then my mom brought them home and I had never had a dog before, and I was like, this is the most amazing thing in the world. And so we raised them and it was two beautiful dogs. They look completely different, but they were sisters that were
the best. Fuffie and Panther, and my mom called the one panther because she had a pink nose or the pink Panther and then uh and Fufi was like the dumbest, most beautiful dog ever and Panther was the smartest, ugliest dog you've ever scene, and so like like I loved Foofie the most because she just like looked really vicious, and I used to think that Foufi was really stupid.
And then one day what happened was um, like at our house, somebody was trying to like come into the house, like like a family friend, and they were trying to open the gates, and then they moved the gate and then the gate fell and then Panther ran away because she they liked sleep by the gate, and then Panther ran but then Foofy didn't and then the gate hit her and then like it broke her spine was devastating.
So then we went to the vet and then like the vet was like I can't help her, you know, we gotta put it down, put out of a misery. And the vet was like, but this was amazing. How were you guys, Like how did you guys raise a deaf dog? And we were like what And he was
like like what do you mean a deaf dog? And he was like, oh, like afterwards, like I just when I was just going through examining her or she still like living, I realized that she wasn't born with I guess a certain part of the Cockley or something is when we're like, wait, this dog was deaf the whole time. I'm we just genuinely, I literally just be like Foufie set and you listen to me set Frufie, And I was like, ye's so dumb, Ye're so dumb. And I
never knew that the dog. And then we realized what used to happen was when we'd call the dogs would be like Fufie Panther, and Fufie would never come, but Panther would come running sometimes and then she'd like look at you and then she'd run back, and then they would both come. And I always used to be like,
Frufie's just dumb. And then I realized Panther was like, oh, she didn't hear, and then she'd go back and fetch her and then she then both of them would come, and then like now I went back and whether like that miss you. So that's how Foffie's doing. She's yeah in Africa, Like so my mom she would let me watch like a sex scene in a movie. She would be like, I don't care about that, but if kids were playing with food, she would make me turn the
movie off. So whenever, so that whenever it was like I used to watch those high school movi bevis those American movies, and then you know, they'd always be a food fights in the cafeteria. Then my mom would be like, turn it off, turn it off. And then I'll be like, what do you mean. She's like, why a they're wasting food. Then I was like, it's a movie. She's like, but it's real food. It's real food. It's real food. Okay,
how can you waste food like that? And then I was like like, look, it's like my mom was going, you know, you like parents would go their children starving. My mom was like, we are starving in Africa, We're starving. Why are they're wasting food? When is my mom going to be on the show. Never. Here's the thing with my mom two things. One, she has no interest in television or any of these things that I do. She just loves the fact that I can pay the rent,
and she loves me for who I am. She genuinely does not care for all of these things, and I'll give you an example. This is how, this is how not interested in it. My mom is right my mom to Two and a half years ago, I met Lionel Richie for the first time, and growing up, Lionel Richie was the soundtrack to me and my mom's lives, right, So like Sunday Morning, she'd be playing Sunday Morning, It's
of us. We'll be there, We'll be dancing together, play all of Lionel Richie song, will be singing them in the house together. And then I meet Lionel Richie. So I'm like, this is amazing. Lionel Richie. My mom and I used to dance to your music when I was a kids. We can I take a picture. I want to send it to my mom. I don't my mom doesn't care about any celebrity. So I'm like, this is the one time Mom was gonna be like, wow, you met Lionel Richie. So I took the picture and I
sent it to my mom and then emailed it. I was like, Mom, look what do you think? And then she replied She's like, wow, are you getting fat? And I was like okay, but okay, let's move over that first of all, the camera adds twenty pounds. Um, but let's talk about the other person in the picture, Lionel Richie. And then she was like, oh yes, oh that's nice. And I was like, oh okay, oh wow, okay, that that was the thing. She like, she just genuinely. And then like four or five days ago, I guess she
was on the internet, which she doesn't regularly do. She goes emails and then she's done, and she was on the internet and then my brother like was going through pictures of me or something, and then she was like, hey, I saw a picture of you and Lionel Richie. When did that happen? As like it happened when I sent you the picture two and a half years ago. And then she was like which picture. It's like, oh the picture where you're fats. And then I'm like, ah, how's
my grandmother doing. Oh she's fantastic. Man years old and ten months. Um, yeah, she makes she makes me count the years and months as well. Now it's a new thing. She's she's did she cook for me? No, she's too old. Oh no, no, no, she's she even says to me. I was like, what do you do? Go? She's like, oh me, She's like, I just enjoy being a life.
And then all all she does is she we're ready. Yeah, all she does is she she chills at home like she's got like a like her squad of grannies and they all just come and hang out and she it's like it's like it's like a weird team of like superheroes where they've all got their specialties. And then hers is that her memory is bulletproof. So all her friends ask her about things they forgotten about in life. But I'm like, like, she's got a better memory than me,
my mom, everybody. She can tell you what your thing happened, what month, everything. And so her friends come over and they'll be and they'll ask like random questions, will be like no Liso, like where where did I meet my husband? And then she'd be like, oh you met it? And then she like tell stories and it's amazing to watch. And so all she does all day she just she loves writing. That's what she does. And I asked her why and she said she says, to be and know
how to still read and write. Oh I'm so blessed. So that's all she does. Yeah, did I do anything fun? While I was on vacation. Actually I did, so I went back home to South Africa. UM, went to check up on Yeah, it was just fun. I went went to check on my like the foundation. UM went to catch up with my people. UM. And it's funny because every time I go home, people always shout at me about going home, which is a weird thing. So like,
I'll get home. And then at the board of like literally customs, the woman was like, she's like, Trevor, when are you coming home? And I was like, I'm I'm home. She's like, no, but when are you coming home? And I was like, but I'm here right now. You're holding my passport. She's like, no, that doesn't count, Trevor. That doesn't count, Trevor. We miss you. Then I'm like, but it's not like you saw me like i'' like I was just running around in the streets every day. It's like, no, Trevor,
come home. I'm like, I'm home. But then what was crazy and amazing was I saw I was in Cape Town and then my UM, a friend of mine called me and said, Yo, Trevor, what are you doing? And I said, I'm waiting. I'm going to go to an event later today, and he's like, oh, because the president wants to meet you. So it's like the president of what No, because I just didn't assume that the president.
Like I was like, there could be like the president of this company, the president of like the students Association. I don't know. So I'm like which president and he's like the president of the country. And I was like like what did I What did I do? Like He's like, no, he just he just wants to like he wants you to come and say hi. So he wants you to come to like the like to to the presidential you know, the Presidential homestead in Kate Town and just come and
say hi. I was like okay, okay. And so then I was with my friends and I was like, guys, come, we gotta go do this thing. And my friends like, all right, let's roll. And then they rolled with me. But I didn't tell him what it was. And I didn't realize in the moment that I didn't tell him what it was. So like my friends like wearing a hoodie. Mother friends were like a free T shirt. And then we and I'm wearing a suit because I'm going to another event. And then we get there and then they're like,
what are we here to pick ups? And then I say to the person that count, I'm like, oh, I'm we here to see the president. And then my friends like, dude, I'm worry. And I was like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry that I didn't I forgot to tell you where we were going. And so then we went in and then we met the president and he was just very cool. It's like you know, and then my friends like he apologized, he like, I'm so sorry, Mr President. I did not know I was meeting a president today. That's where I'm
dressed like this. And then the president was cool. He was like no, He's like, I didn't know I was meeting you guys. That's why I'm just like this. But it was cool. There's nice about it. And then just I don't know what the president was like Trevor, He's like, what are you doing now? Is that come with me to parliament? I want to introduce you. So it like takes me, you know, to our congress and it's like to parliaments and he's just like, just come with me,
and so he's like walk with me. And now you're like on the presidential power walk and I'm like, just what do you do on this walk? And he's like, you just act like you're thinking of serious things. And and so I'm walking next to him the whole time
and I'm just like, yes, nuclear war, immigration, unemployment. And so we walked together and then we get to Parliament and then when we got there, he introduced and it was one of the most surreal moments because it's one of those things that you you you you take for
granted because it happens gradually in life. But I genuinely just had to breathe, like a few days after and be like, yo, you were in Parliament and the president of your country was like giving on of applause to Trevor nois giving back to the country and we love him. And and literally in that moment, I was sitting there and I was like, God, damn, where is my history teacher? Now? What? What? What? If there was one aspect of South African culture that
I could transplant to America, what would it be? Huh what would it be? I think it would be, um, maybe our general easer talking about race and our racial past, you know, because South African America have very similar histories, you know, and that there was, like there were many things that were done to people of color that were extremely heinous, but we we just maybe because the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in our country, we were forced to
talk about it, and we just talk about it. It's painful, but we laugh about it and it's out there, whereas in America, I found there's like a lot of tension in and around that. A lot of people are just like, yeah, well, well come on, we don't how do we have to bring that up? And it's like, dude, I'm not saying you did slavery. Calm down, you know what I mean, because that's how a lot of people treated. They're just like, I wasn't there. I didn't say you were there. I'm
just like, slavery happened, yeah, but I swear I wasn't. Dude, you thirty seven? Calm down, you know what I mean? And I feel like there could be It helps to be able to have conversations about those things, because then it helps you understand how you got to where you got to. But if you can't have those conversations, then you just have to operate in a blind space of like, how did this happen? You know why there's so many black people living this part of Harlem. I don't know.
Why do you think? I don't know? Do you get what I'm saying? And it actually opens it up? I think that would be like the one part And it doesn't fix everything. Don't get me wrong, but I do think it makes it easier to address issues, to have conversations when you can just be like, yeah, man, this should happened. You know what I mean? It can just be like, yeah, that was that was crazy, that was wild, that that happened, That this happened, that you and and
then and that's the thing. A lot of time people think it's about a signing blame, but it's not. It's about addressing what happened so that everyone can move forward and understand why things need to be fixed or how they got there in the first place. Does that make sense?
Like imagine imagine if like your your doctor, like you want to talk to your doctor about something that happened inside your body, and then you know your your doctors skans and then you're like, I think I think I might have like a cancer doctors like I wasn't there, I wasn't eating with you. You're like no, I just need you to help fixing it. Yeah, I wasn't there though I wasn't eating. It's like, no, man, just chick out, you know, let's talk. That's the one thing I transplant.
That and chickens that don't like do weights and stuff. That's the other part. Like chickens are just like are normal because American chickens is just like what what what? What? Like? Once I saw them, I was like, I'm sorry, what is that the thing I'm eating? Oh? Like, I remember when I first saw a chicken wing in America. This is the this is the dumbest thing you've ever heard. And you're gonna judge me, but I judge you back. I remember the first time I had a chicken wing
in America. Is like I ordered like buffalo wings. Okay, And I know this sounds crazy, but the reason I was intrigued because I showed on someone else's plate and then I was like, what are those? And someone said those are buffalo wings? And I was like, oh, is this like a part of the buffalo that I don't know? And I was like, I want to taste buffalo wings?
And then I remember eating it and I was like, it's sort of like chicken and someone's like, it is chicken, and I was like, but it's buffalo, and then they're like, no, it's chicken. Then I was like, but what chicken is this? I was like, how big is the wing of this chicken? What? What? What dinosaur chickens do you guys have here? Because that's not the size of any normal chicken anywhere in the world. So yeah, I would. I would. That's the one other
thing I would bring is just like normal animals. Normal, that's all. Yeah, I bring normal animals and conversations about race. Watch the Daily Show weeknights and eleven Central, ar Comedy Central, and stream full episodes anytime I'm on Paramount Plus. This has been a Comedy Central podcast