I have heard Noah do stand up and guest on panel shows… I like him much more in those capacities than I do as a host
On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 4:43 PM Jon Delfin <[email protected]> wrote: > by Dominic Maxwell, who recently gave much less enthusiastic reviews to > Russell Brand, Olga Koch, and Simon Amstell > > > How good is Trevor Noah? I’ll tell you. After well over an hour of > queueing to get into this Greenwich enormodome via airport-style security > checks, I texted a friend to say that if this didn’t turn out to be the > greatest stand-up show of the year I’d have wasted my evening. Ninety > minutes later I texted again. “Evening not wasted. Face sore from laughing.” > > Noah, the 37-year-old South African host of American satire programme The > Daily Show, will take this tour to the US next. Yet while his material > about masks and Zoom and sci-fi film tropes will play anywhere, he here > added in UK-only material (the Euros final! Scousers! Punting in > Cambridge!) that showed off his prodigious gift for accents and for seeing > the big picture while making small details deliciously vivid. And somehow > he kept dancing between the daffy and the dark, the trivial and the epochal. > > The son of a Xhosa mother and Swiss-German father, Noah can cut through > racial and national stereotypes and preconceptions with accuracy and vim. > He was ironic yet acidic, cordial yet acute as he argued that Britain gets > more stick for colonialism than other European nations simply because it > lacks the sort of interesting cuisine that might compensate for its sins. > He suggested that the US was built on a spite towards the English that has > curdled into a spite towards other Americans. > > Written down, some of his topics could be considered hackneyed: the French > are haughty; white people love swimming but can’t dance. Yet every time, he > found something of his own to add. “Black people are dancing to the beat,” > he said. “White people are dancing to the lyrics.” And he always made it > look casual as he padded around the stage in combat trousers and a hooded > top, delighting a diverse audience of 20,000. He is a virtuoso, an artist > who conceals the art. He’s the new gold standard of stand-up. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABCcf4dYOrmU5WMdWxJmSPuZR%3DT76AhUTzYP2GFD2H-JohDQLw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABCcf4dYOrmU5WMdWxJmSPuZR%3DT76AhUTzYP2GFD2H-JohDQLw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4B2J-gVapUazTCL2wO1f8CDE9_NSekjzkSmHRKuaGYgbw%40mail.gmail.com.
