show, jon stewart said to me i think you should do it. that's when the whirlwind began. >> trevor had done very little up to that point. he had only done a couple of "daily show" spots. >> i said yeah, i'll put my name in the hat. i thought there was no chance in hell i would be chosen to host it. >> but he just seemed to have the intelligence, the poise, a point of view, a grasp of global politics, and he just felt like he could do it. >> growing up in the dusty streets of south africa, i never dreamed that i would one day have, well, two things really. an indoor toilet and a job as host of "the daily show". >> so when i got to "the daily show," the first and most important thing for me to do was not crash the white people's car. jon stewart was coming into their living room every single night. and now there is some random south african who is walking into your living room who you