Trevor Noah quotes

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

My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in jail.

I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix in South Africa. And this was obviously awkward because I grew up in a mixed family. My mother's a black woman, South African Xhosa woman... and my father's Swiss, from Switzerland.

The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose.

I lost contact with my father for many years because of apartheid. For, like, six years, I didn't see my dad. And, now, this was the six years of being a teenager.

We live in the Internet age. Everyone wants clicks. Clicks are what sells.

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.

My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in jail.