#TREVOR NOAH MEMOIR PLUS#
A chapter on extreme churchgoing - Noah’s mother dragged him to services four nights a week, plus three on Sunday - features an episode of hitchhiking and ends with Noah and his Mom jumping from a moving car. “Born a Crime” is not a chronological narrative but a collection of autobiographical essays that feel like developments out of Noah’s comedy routines. (Robert did end up playing a minimal one.)īy clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy. His parents’ relationship was unorthodox through and through Patricia approached Robert, a neighbor and friend, about having a child with her, but she didn’t want to get married and she didn’t require him to play a role in the child’s life. The Immorality Act of 1927, reproduced in the book’s opening pages, prohibited “illicit carnal intercourse between Europeans and natives” hence the book’s title. Noah, born in Johannesburg in 1984, is the son of a black woman and a white man - she a devout Christian from the Xhosa tribe he a Swiss chef and restaurateur. Noah has a real tale to tell, and he tells it well - the tale of a boyhood in South Africa during and after apartheid. Nor is it the conventionally thin gruel that constitutes a celebrity memoir these days. Yet there sat someone we hardly knew.”Īmericans will know Trevor Noah much better after reading his terrific new memoir, “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood.” Not that the book is in any way a promotional tool for the television show. After Noah’s debut in September 2015, Newsday’s Verne Gay summed up the reluctance many viewers felt: “We subliminally expect to see Stewart sitting at that nice new desk. Trevor Noah was hardly a household name in the United States when he was chosen to replace Jon Stewart on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” Audiences have been slow to embrace the South African-born comedian in the role, and ratings for the show are down.
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