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Hey GQ, I'm Trevor Noah and I'm going undercover on the Internet. First up, Wikipedia. Sometimes I like to say there's Wikipedia just to keep things interesting.

At the time of his birth, his parents interracial relationship was illegal under apartheid law. And Noah highlights this in his autobiography. Interracial sexual relations and marriages were not decriminalized until a year after Noah's birth when the Immorality Act was amended in nineteen eighty five. This is correct. But the Immorality Act in South Africa was a law that made it illegal for people of different skin colors to have sex. You are a different race from somebody else. You did not engage with sexual in sexual relations with them.

This was something that was frowned upon because then you make babies like me posted on IMDB. He is a polyglot woman.

He speaks English, Hossa Sutra, Trauner Tonga, Afrikaans and some German. Wow, that seems excessive. I understand closer. I don't speak it fluently. My mom just I don't know. She just spoke to me and I don't know. I never learned it. That's weird. I don't really think I speak. I speak to them more than I speak, but students are pretty much the same or similar. So, yeah, this is this is mostly true.

And then some German, depending on how sober I am next.

When he was young, Trevor was thrown out of a minibus by his mother because she thought the driver from another tribe was trying to kill them. Wow. Who wrote this?

Why would you write it like this? I think it's more Trevor and his mother jumped out of a minibus to save their lives. That's what happened there. This makes it seem like mom just threw me out and then she carried on on the journey. And then we met afterwards and I was like, what happened, Mom? She's like, oh, yeah, my bad. As a little paranoid. He began his career in comedy when he was out at a bar in South Africa with his cousin and a friend.

They were both drunk and began heckling a comedian. That's not true. I wasn't drunk. My cousin was, on the other hand, and he heckled the comedian. Want him loud. He was the comedian. When the comedian challenged them to come on stage, they sent Trevor to perform. He went on stage to avoid looking like a scaredy cat and discovered that when he spoke, people laughed. I don't know. Scaredy cat was the reason I went up.

I was just like, Yeah, I'll just go up because, I mean, the people said I wouldn't go up, so I went up and I'm glad I did. Thank you again kiteboarding for doing that. It was a wonderful guy. He told me to try.

Submit is a huge fan of rollercoasters. I am indeed. My favorite thing to do on a roller coaster is ride with somebody who is the opposite of me, someone who is not a huge fan of roller coasters. I feel like that is the yin and yang Twitter.

You may not believe it, but it's actually me that Trevor Noah anyway. Trevor. All right. Have you managed to see your family this year?

You OK? Oh, Tina, you sound really concerned about me. Thank you.

I've seen my family the first time I called my mom, actually, I call my brother and then he gives the phone to my mom because my mom doesn't do FaceTime. So I just pop up on my brother's phone and then she's like, what do you do? And then I say hi to my mom at Trevor Noah.

By the way, when will your second book be released?

When I have something to say. That Trevor Noah, I know you probably won't see this, but it's driving us nuts. What is the thing over Lady Liberty's torch on that sign behind you during the daily social distancing show? Please, we need some sleep. So what is behind me?

Let me think. I have the daily social distancing show behind me on a screen. It is the Statue of Liberty. Lady Liberty is there. She's holding a Black Lives Matter sign and a riot shield. That's what she's holding a riot shield. Because what I started doing was updating the picture depending on what was going on in America. And at first I thought it would be like one thing at a time. But that's not America, replied.

And Trevor Noah, how cold do you keep your apartment and how many houses do you own? The first question made sense when I read the second question. You're always wearing one in your daily social distancing shows and so many different colors. OK, how cool do I keep my apartment? I think the perfect temperature to keep your house or your car is twenty two and a half degrees Celsius. For those who use numbers that don't exist anywhere else in the world, it is approximately seventy two degrees Fahrenheit.

How many hoodies do I own? I don't count, to be honest with you. I've always owned a lot of hoodies. But just because it's like that's what I went home, you know, I feel like a hoodie, you know, hoodies like hoodies, like a blanket that you just covers you. You want you to cold, you know, you put your thing up and then you're not you can put it down and put your hands in the pocket thing in the front, you know, like a kangaroo.

I don't know.

Everyone doesn't just wear Instagram. Oh, boy. What games do you play? Are you peaceful Xbox or all of the above gamer McMoon? I'm all of the above gamer. I play Xbox, I play a little bit of PC, not that much, actually. I'm trying to get into, like veterans and I'm trying to get into a war zone. But on PC, which but playing with a console controller, the world is crazy. Now, if I'm playing first person shooter is I like to be on Xbox.

And then right now I'm playing Ghost Toshima.

Cora, Cora.

Cora, Cora.

Cora, did Trevor Noah go to college? Yes. Was he supposed to be there because he was enrolled? No. Moving on. What's a day behind the scenes at The Daily Show like.

It's just like a group of us. We sit around and we all read the news and then we'll watch the news and then we make jokes about the news. And then we write about those jokes and then we write the serious parts that aren't the jokes. And then we put it all together. And then just like this, I speak to you.

Why does Trevor Noah always make fun of Spirit Airlines? I don't make fun of Spirit Airlines. Spirit Airlines makes fun of themselves. I just tell you about it.

Is The Daily Show a reasonable way to get your political news if you only dedicate 20 minutes a day? Ha.

If you only dedicate 20 minutes a day to getting the news, then yes, The Daily Show is the best place for you to get your news, because I don't think there's another place you will get political news in twenty minutes. America is a very extreme place.

Know it's twenty minutes or twenty four hours. I will give you the shorter version.

So you choose what is in the mugs on The Daily Show. Depends who the guest is. Seriously, it's actually me, why does Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show, mainly target Donald Trump? Why would the host of a satirical news show cover Donald Trump?

That is a good question. I guess the question I would ask you is, why is Donald Trump, the president of the United States, a tough one to answer, isn't it?

No. Here's the here's the real answer. The Daily Show covers the president or what's happening in politics. I think it is safe to say that Donald Trump is the thing that is happening in politics. Unless I'm wrong, am I wrong? And anyone else happening in politics right now? No, it doesn't matter what story it is. By the way, it's Donald Trump coronavirus. Donald Trump trade was Donald Trump travel restrictions, Donald Trump the Middle East, Donald Trump wildfires, Donald Trump.

He's involved in everything. He involves himself, himself in everything. So, I mean, the president of the United States.

You saying I shouldn't speak about the president of the United States? Is that what you're saying?

Wow. Wow. All right. That's it for me. I'm signing off the Internets to preserve my mental health. The Daily Show with Criminal Lawyers Edition wants The Daily Show weeknights at 11:00, 10:00 Central on Comedy Central and the Comedy Central Watch full episodes and videos at The Daily Show Dotcom. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and subscribe to The Daily Show on YouTube for exclusive content and more. I'm Stephanie Rule, MSNBC anchor and NBC News senior business correspondent and host of the podcast Modern Rules from NBC Think and I heart radio ties are complicated a year ago, but now Complicated doesn't seem to cover it.

Sometimes it feels like we're now being asked to play a game where the rules have changed, but we don't know what those new rules are. So I want to try and figure it out together.

The new season of my podcast, Modern Rules is back with more probing conversation, because how else can we meet the demands of these crazy times unless we're at the very least trying to get smarter from sex and dating during covid to the dangers of misinformation campaigns?

We're talking about all of this.

And so what I see coming is, however this ends, that next phase will be a really exciting beginning for sex and relationships. I think it's going to lead to an actual like a post covid sexual revolution.

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