Jon Stewart is gone but the Daily Show desk won’t stay empty for too much longer. Trevor Noah is getting ready to premiere as the new host of the beloved “fake” news program. When it was announced that Noah was taking over the show, some of his old tweets were dug up from years ago, which contained some sexist and racist jokes. Now Noah is opening up about the controversy.
Noah Trevor recently spoke with Entertainment Weekly about the outrage he faced for his old tweets, when he was named heir to the Daily Show, saying:
“I understand where it comes from. But people would say, ‘Are you going to change?’ And I’d say, ‘You went back three years to find the tweets! If I haven’t repeated those things, haven’t I changed?’ If you look back three years and you’re not disappointed in who you were then, you’re not progressing.”
Noah went on to comment on the new trend of being offend, adding:
“But we live in a world of faux outrage. It’s hashtag this, hashtag that. There are people who jump onto trends before they even know what the trend is about. People want to be part of the good, but they don’t want to put the work in, so they think, ‘Can’t I just say that I agree?’ Then you have an artificial inflation of what the problem is. All of the sudden you get all of these big scandals, but they’re not big, because everyone is on the periphery of the argument.”
Trevor Noah takes over The Daily Show on September 28.
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