And satirist trevor noah, who presents one of the most influential programmes on american tv, the daily show. Born a crime to a black mother and white father in apartheid south africa, he has navigated his way through the explosive issue of race and identity. With critics claiming that Donald Trumps victory has encouraged intolerant rhetoric, does he fear that the space for liberal satire such as his is shrinking . Trevor noah, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. You were born in 1984, six years before Nelson Mandela was released. Your father is a white swiss man, your mother was black, a union punishable by five years in prison. How did it feel to be born a crime . Well, the truth is for me it didnt feel any different to being born i guess any differently, because i was really lucky in that i was insulated as a child, so i grew up under apartheid but i was spared from a lot of the ills of apartheid. My parents were in a world where they were the ones who faced the ills, thats what
Born a crime to a black mother and white father in apartheid south africa, he has navigated his way through the explosive issue of race and identity. With critics claiming that Donald Trumps victory has encouraged intolerant rhetoric, does he fear that the space for liberal satire such as his is shrinking . Trevor noah, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. You were born in 1984, six years before Nelson Mandela was released. Your father is a white swiss man, your mother was black, a union punishable by five years in prison. How did it feel to be born a crime . Well, the truth is for me it didnt feel any different to being born i guess any differently, because i was really lucky in that i was insulated as a child, so i grew up under apartheid but i was spared from a lot of the ills of apartheid. My parents were in a world where they were the ones who faced the ills, thats what i talk about in the book, i dont make it seem like it was my struggle, its a struggle i didnt even know i was
Born a crime to a black mother and white father in apartheid south africa, he has navigated his way through the explosive issue of race and identity. With critics claiming that Donald Trumps victory has encouraged intolerant rhetoric, does he fear that the space for liberal satire such as his is shrinking . Trevor noah, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. You were born in 1984, six years before Nelson Mandela was released. Your father is a white swiss man, your mother was black, a union punishable by five years in prison. How did it feel to be born a crime . Well, the truth is for me it didnt feel any different to being born i guess any differently, because i was really lucky in that i was insulated as a child, so i grew up under apartheid but i was spared from a lot of the ills of apartheid. My parents were in a world where they were the ones who faced the ills, thats what i talk about in the book, i dont make it seem like it was my struggle, its a struggle i didnt even know i was
Born a crime to a black mother and white father in apartheid south africa, he has navigated his way through the explosive issue of race and identity. With critics claiming that Donald Trumps victory has encouraged intolerant rhetoric, does he fear that the space for liberal satire such as his is shrinking . Trevor noah, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. You were born in 1984, six years before Nelson Mandela was released. Your father is a white swiss man, your mother was black, a union punishable by five years in prison. How did it feel to be born a crime . Well, the truth is for me it didnt feel any different to being born i guess any differently, because i was really lucky in that i was insulated as a child, so i grew up under apartheid but i was spared from a lot of the ills of apartheid. My parents were in a world where they were the ones who faced the ills, thats what i talk about in the book, i dont make it seem like it was my struggle, its a struggle i didnt even know i was
i honestly couldn t quite believe it, that television was communicating something that you might only see in the darkest moments and accurate moments in cinema. [distant radio chatter] [mystical drum music] - you look at the year that american beauty won the oscar which is also the year that the sopranos debuted and almost immediately after that, the two mediums diverged. - i know what i must do, but i m afraid to do it. [epic music] - movies became much more focused on big tent-pole things that can bring in as much of an audience as you possibly can. meanwhile, tv, which had always been a big-tent medium, started going smaller and more interior and saying, all right, we want to tell stories for grown-ups that maybe don t get the biggest audience, but get a really passionate one. - i ll be home for christmas - i had an idea of doing a show about death.