Source: flavorwire.com - Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Yesterday Trevor Noah was named the new host of The Daily Show , following in Jon Stewart’s very big and very obviously Jewish footsteps, and the Internet cautiously applauded the choice of a young, biracial South African. But by today, Comedy Central had to release a statement in his defense . Last night, bloggers combed through the relatively unknown comedian’s long Twitter timeline, and what they found was not good. There were a trove of (mostly three- to six-year-old) facile jokes about women and Jews. These one-liners, particularly the older ones, reeked of stale prejudice and thoughtlessness, even if, to my eyes, they were mostly dull clichés and possibly meant to be tongue-in-cheek. (Sometimes tone is hard to discern on the Internet!) "Oh yeah the weekend. People are gonna get drunk & think that I'm sexy!" – fat chicks everywhere. — Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah) October 14, 2011 Almost bumped a Jewish kid crossing the road. He didn't look b4 crossing but I still would hav felt so bad in my german car! — Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah) September 18, 2009 I'm watching Olympic women's hockey. It's like lesbian porn. Without the porn. #InLove — Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah) July 31, 2012 In another time, of course, these lame LOLs would be lost to posterity, exorcised in grubby standup routines than no one recorded, save with a giant shrug: “Comedian makes dumb, offensive jokes: breaking news at five!” But we’re living at an interesting mom
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Yesterday Trevor Noah was named the new host of The Daily Show , following in Jon Stewart’s very big and very obviously Jewish footsteps, and the Internet cautiously applauded the choice of a young, biracial South African. But by today, Comedy Central had to release a statement in his defense . Last night, bloggers combed through the relatively unknown comedian’s long Twitter timeline, and what they found was not good. There were a trove of (mostly three- to six-year-old) facile jokes about women and Jews. These one-liners, particularly the older ones, reeked of stale prejudice and thoughtlessness, even if, to my eyes, they were mostly dull clichés and possibly meant to be tongue-in-cheek. (Sometimes tone is hard to discern on the Internet!) "Oh yeah the weekend. People are gonna get drunk & think that I'm sexy!" – fat chicks everywhere. — Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah) October 14, 2011 Almost bumped a Jewish kid crossing the road. He didn't look b4 crossing but I still would hav felt so bad in my german car! — Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah) September 18, 2009 I'm watching Olympic women's hockey. It's like lesbian porn. Without the porn. #InLove — Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah) July 31, 2012 In another time, of course, these lame LOLs would be lost to posterity, exorcised in grubby standup routines than no one recorded, save with a giant shrug: “Comedian makes dumb, offensive jokes: breaking news at five!” But we’re living at an interesting mom
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