Trevor Noah

So he's going through it and going, like, I don't need serious radio anymore.

So this...

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Do you wonder sometimes, you know, and this is not to get, but you and I are both getting older, and you write a lot in the book about- Speak for yourself, John.

Friends, settle down.

I was just on jury duty, by the way.

I don't know if you saw the picture of my doppelganger.

But there is mortality.

You write about Martin Amis and Paul Auster and people that you've lost, even during the writing of this book, lost to esophageal cancer.

You had a cancer scare in the middle of rehabilitation.

Well, you're right.

He writes, he goes to the doctor.

It depends on if you have a Jersey brain.

It's so incredible because you face this, as you write in the book, this 27 seconds.

Yeah.

It was just 27 seconds.

And yet, do you think about...

And pardon the question, but do you think, does it matter how you die?

As you watched your friends and you thought about your fate and your brush with mortality, and then to have this cancer scare, did it make you think it mattered how you die?