Trevor Noah Quotations

During my New York run, I injured my voice badly. I was getting increasingly hoarse, and it finally gave up. The doctor said I had two choices. Either cancel things, or try my luck and perhaps never speak again. That's not much of a choice.

As a comedian, I'm forced to have a tough skin. Until people laugh, they are detractors. You walk into a new audience where nobody knows you, they go: 'Make us laugh. Show us what you're made of. Prove why we should be listening to you.'

Nobody owns comedy. Nobody owns a premise. Nobody owns an idea.

Most of my show is true; like, 90% of everything I say on stage is true. I just have to find the way to make it funny - that's the difficult thing.

I'm a quarterback. I don't need to score the touchdown. I just need to spot the pass.

I was the first in my family to board an airplane. I was the first in my family to get kicked off an airplane.

I want my audience to be my friends - that is when they will get the best comedy. If they see me as a performer, they won't get the best show.

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.

America was a thing I saw on TV - that wasn't a real world. That wasn't within my realm of dreaming.