Trevor Noah

You spoke at the Penn banquet, yes?

Yeah, last year.

Last year, which is a consortium of writers and poets and a lot of people, truly defenders of free speech.

I just got a text today.

They've canceled.

Right.

Listen, there was a critic, and this is going to sound like a joke, a critic of Taylor Swift's new music album, the Torture Post Society.

They had to remove the critic's name from the critique because of death threats.

Because he didn't like the record?

I didn't read it.

Because I love the record.

I don't want to hear any negativity.

No, but so do I, John.

But it speaks to, in 1989, there was an Ayatollah and a Fatwa and a group of religious muckety-mucks who delivered the law from high above.

And now we're all fundamentalists.

Do you think of, you know, you have a dog in the fight in that creative.

How do we, and I think about this a lot, how do we manage that and is that just a function of the algorithm?

It's actually on page if I would.

Exactly.

But you are thoughtful enough and you've been through it enough that I know you have an opinion.