Trevor Noah was born February 20, 1984, in Johannesburg, South Africa. ... Noah joked about the disturbing similarity between his German accent and Adolf Hitler’s.

Trevor Noah is facing the gauntlet between impossible expectations and thorny subject matter, and he knows it. ... and accents, as we have recently learned, can get you in some trouble.

GROSS: I spoke with Trevor Noah in November 2016 after the publication of his memoir "Born A Crime." And he literally was. He's South African, the son of a black mother and white father.

Trevor Noah was introduced to Stateside viewers as an outsider—a foreign observer who could see America more clearly than it could see itself. On his first appearance on “The Daily Show,” in ...

When Trevor Noah was announced, in 2015, as the replacement for Jon Stewart as host of “The Daily Show,” he was met with a resounding “Who?” In fact, he was not entirely unknown.