Trevor Noah

It's not just like a trophy.

It's not a mantle.

It's meaningful for survival, right?

But then what that comes with is an excessive amount of pressure as well for that success to maintain itself or to keep growing or to keep...

What has that journey been like for you as somebody who was contributing and helping the family?

I'm assuming you're still doing that now.

Does it feel like, oh, good, the comedy helps me do this?

Or does it feel like, oh, man, I need the comedy because I need this to keep going so that I can support the family?

I think you were absolutely meant for it.

But I often think that's, in a perfect world, I think that's how a society would run is the only skill that people have is where they would end up doing their thing.

Like, I think we've created too many funnels in the world now.

We've made everyone doctor, lawyer, engineer, like all those types of things.

We need engineers.

We need doctors.

We need lawyers.

All right, fine.

But-

I do think it's beautiful to be in a world where everyone's one skill just happens to be the thing that they can do.

And then we don't diminish that skill, go like, oh, that's all you can do?

It's like, yeah, I can only paint.