Growing Up in South Africa - Between the Scenes | The Daily Show 

Trevor has that rare star quality where people who have never met him fall so in love with him.

trevor’s mom has won in life with this man.

I am a Nigerian in Nigeria and playing with bricks, sticks, rubber band, tyres were my best toys growing up.

That person who laughed when he said his ambition as a child was to be able to buy as much food as he wanted obviously has never been poor. There are unimaginable amounts of people that are in that position every single day.

I am in South Africa now and kids are playing with bricks as I am typing this, they have toy cars but the brick are just different man

Trevor is one of those guys who would talk for hours , n you wouldn't even get bored.

"You strike a woman, you strike a rock." That has got to be one of the most beautiful and powerful phrases I've heard in my life. That is fire

When you‘re half African and half Swiss and have two fully African half brothers and finally feel represented🥺😍

“You can have a black chocolate, you can have a white chocolate, you can have a milk chocolate but it’s all nestle!” - All the same 🥺❤️

That anecdote of his little brother and the "Nestle"-comparison has got to be one of the funniest, purest, most innocent, heartwarming and both childlike and mature things i've ever heard.

When you realize that Panther ran away from the falling gate but Fufi didn't cause Fufi couldn't hear the gate falling.. that's heartbreaking. 😢

And everyone thinks African kids grow up impoverished,sick and being chased by lions.This is the side of Africa the media dont show.What beautiful memories

"There are children starving in Africa" "WE are starving in Africa!!!" that hurt a little, I love Trevor's mom and I don't even know her!!!! Lol

Am I the only one who cried when he told the story about Fufi?

When he was talking about his little brother explaining race with chocolate, I was like damn man can't believe this kid just solved racism

I can relate lol. We even built roads for our brick cars. Our one friend who usually had the best highways and byways in their yard became a civil engineer.

When Trevor’s younger brother is smarter than the US president

Proudly South African 🤟🏾💯🇿🇦

Our skin can be black or white or mix but we are all human being. Credit: Trevor's brother

Listening to Trevor talk of "wanting to buy food whenever I want." Boy that struck home, I grew up on a Reservation ( if your not from the U.S. it's a place where they put the native peoples "Indians" they called us) Food was an issue, I recall eating pancakes one day for all three meals. So growing up all I wanted was to eat when I want to eat. I know exactly how he feels cuz that was me.

I love that Teddy never snitched on him.

The story about his brother pooping in the garden had me in tears, I fucking love Trevor, what a legend.

Lol Heyyy I also played with bricks and pretended they were cars with my little brother 😂🙈 fun times in South Africa 🇿🇦

American kids:-We play with legos and xbox. Trevor:-Hold my brick

The broken brick was the convertible car and the long clay brick was the bus, damn, those were the day.

I have read " Born a Crime " and I can say for sure Trevor Noah is inspirational. He has gone through so much but his attitude towards life is amazing. Love from India ❤️

Me: the PERFECT man doesn't exist. Noah: *exists*

This video really increases my respect for Trevor as a person. That he has come so far, achieved so much and stayed so humble and generous towards so many people. The world needs more like him.

Trevor should have a ‘Behind The Scenes’ for his Coronavirus Home Show...where he cooks while telling stories of his childhood.

There's a light in trevor's eyes. Everyone sees that except the haters

Lve the way he's humble and keeps it real, when he said his mother changed the channel bcz ppl in Africa are starving, and he says "" we are those kids in Africa 🤣👍🤭

"'Did you buy the dessert?' My mom points at my tummy, 'Looks like you bought the dessert!'" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm not sure if I love Trevor or his mom more! 😄

“You strike a woman you strike a rock” we need to be teaching our young people this

As an American who grew up in South Africa, Trevor’s stories always feel like coming home.

A face brick is better than a toy car, lets be honest South Africans. Be honest

Ok. I'm a South Korean trying to improve my English watching American late night shows. And I'm so happy that I can enjoy Trevor now that I get his accent. I used to only watch Jimmy Kimmel because his jokes are not that difficult and he speaks clearly. And then I could watch Jimmy Fallon soon after because he's got lots of easy to follow formats on his show though he kind of murmurs quite a bit. Then soon after I was fine with Stephen Colbert & Seth Meyers along with Conan O'brien & John Oliver, at about the same time range, but consecutively. These four took me some time binge watching all the episodes! (Esp. LWT, they're so informative and funny, too!) Then now, Trevor Noah. I used to wish I could watch Trevor comfortably because so many people seem to enjoy him but I couldn't because I'm not a native at English. And here I am, I'm so happy! So I'm just throwing this here. Thanks for the great show Trevor!

I love Trevor's kids voice it's just so adorable ☺

Am I the only one who feels Trevor is so adorably wholesome in the way he speaks and behaves?

We are so proud of you as South Africans 🇿🇦🇿🇦❤❤

Seeing Trevor's story about bricks brought back memories from my childhood. At age 8, growing up in a small village in northern Sweden, the coolest thing to do during school breaks was breaking and milling bricks to create powder and then mixing the powder with water to "paint" the stone wall beside the school. The bricks were mostly small pieces of roofing tiles, and the teachers understood the fun we had since they had done similar things when they were kids. This was in the late 1980's, before the era of video games and computers. Also, South Africa and Sweden may be half a world apart and an extremely different environments to grow up in. But the ability of children to play with whatever "toys" we could find is the same all over the world, and kids up here are still playing with bricks to this date.

I LOVE you Trevor!!! (Not in a weird way... I'm old enough to be your grandmother). Love you..... you bring so much JOY and LAUGHTER in these stressful times. THANK YOU!!!

South Africa and Brasil has so many similarities. His childhood reminded me of many things in my childhood... ^^

*its honestly weird seeing him on set. im use to him in his apt now*

As an African, I can relate to each of those stories

Respect for the man who went through so much in his life and yet chose to bring a smile on everybody else's!

that story about his grandfather and the policeman always gets me.

I love his Fufi story. Every thing about it.

Trevor is my role model. I really admire him.

I love how Trevor's mum was very supportive of him. She is such a great person and a survivor

6:38 YES! Food fights are the most obscene thing in American films. It has always infuriated me! Mamma Trevor is right

"... people are like chocolates ... it's all Nestle" - oh, man ;)

He is amazing a great story teller ,has the real fact of being an African man,he actually makes me proud being African race.

The Fufi and Panther story oh my Lord it gets me crying for real. Imagine what Panther would feel when Fufi’s not around anymore. Panther used to fetch Fufi to come together when somebody call, but Panther can no longer do that because Fufi is gone, imagine how sad it is omg im crying for real as im typing this. That’s real love right there❤️ Fufi, rest in peace sweetheart❤️

When Trevor makes a baby/child voice it’s the cutest thing EVER!!!!!

i grew up in Sudan poor , but not that poor like trevor, i'm really impressed that he joke about it!! this man really had a good heart and raised well!! sorry about the bad language ..

I love how he mixes his language with English

I can relate to Trevor’s growing story especially of playing with 🧱 bricks 😂😂😂😂 It was special

Wathint'abafazi, wathint'imbokodo! You strike a woman, you strike a rock!✊😍

I'm reading trevor's book now. And it made me realize why he has Between the Scenes.. he's really hyper and inquisitive that the normal interviews isn't enough 😂

as a non English speaker I must say i love how he speaks :)

Isaac has the best description I've ever heard, "we are all Nestle" Sums it up nicely

When I watch videos like this, I sometimes forget that there is a virus and the world has become a gloomy place

He is the kindest person I've ever seen....he keeps on making people laugh ...he loves making jokes not as a part of profession but because he loves it...he talk with people on his own....👍👍👍

Hahaha Trevor mixing English and Zulu/Xhosa is hilarious, shoutout from South Africa. 🤣🤣

Playing with the imagination is way more healthy for a child's mind than elaborate modern toys. I know it sounds "boomer" but I really believe that

buying a brick is no the same as finding perfect brick... it's like love

I still remember that video with Trevor's grandma and I wish he would do another one like that, she was honestly so hilarious and full of life.

I love TREVOR,I NEVER GET BORED OF HIS JOKES EVEN IF I CAN WATCH THE SAME VIDEO 10 TIMES ,am here again today.

Im South African and My mom always commented also on the way they waste food in American movies😂

Who loves trevor noah - like

I have been raised to NEVER waste food, so when I watched a food fight in an American movie the first time, i was so confused 😂 like why are food fights even a thing? Why are you fighting with food?!? Lol I completely agree Trevor’s mom on that one.

Trevor is such a great storyteller with such great stories to tell. He's a window into another culture.

Man this hits me in the feels, in my native country going out for pizza or fried chicken was only a birthday thing.

Hey Trevor your grandfather's joke was funny LOL

Trevor said Teddy was his bestfriend he went shoplifting with like it's a sport😂😂😂

What I really admire about Trevor is that he openly talks about the times when he was poor in a very authentic way, he's not ashamed of it. I'm Arab and although there are many poor Arabs but there is this idea that being poor is shameful, and I know a lot of celebrities who avoid mentioning they come from poor families. But I think they really need to be more like Trevor, because what he's doing is uniting people by making them feel they can relate. This comment section made my heart warm seeing all of these people talking about their childhood, and the simple times.

I dunno how many times I have watched this. Still makes me laugh everytime

My dad grew up poor in Colombia so as a child if I was watching anything where there was playing with food- he would make me turn it off. As a child I could not watch Nickelodeon because there was a lot of food fighting! I thought it was the worst rule but now I understand.

"You strike a woman, you strike a rock!" Perfect!

I just love Trevor. He is a perfect example of what knowledge of one's culture and background can do . Kudus .

Me and Trevor went through same life experience expect I grow up in Afghanistan 🇦🇫

I might’ve teared up with the fufi story😭💙

Trevors story of wanting to buy two dinners and all the desserts is absolutely precious.

I am algerian and growing up we had a lot of construction going on in our house., so a lot of bricks lying around. I built apartments with those things. Best memories from my childhood

Lol so funny how he is occasionally speaking Zulu with Americans.

Who loves between the scenes than the real show

What a gifted storyteller he is. I could listen to him for days.

This is probably the 3rd or 4th time I've seen this, and I laugh and cry every time. Trevor isn't just a great comedian, he's an awesome storyteller. Love him ❤️

The bricks part got me so much because in Ghana “Africa🇬🇭 “ were I grew we did same thing 😀thanks for the memories Trevy😊

Why doesn't RU-vid have a love react button....

5:42 Is so relatable. That's exactly what I think about when I think of a happy life, being able to buy all the food I want.

I’m know I’m late to the party when it comes to Trevor but this guy is just plain Awesome-genuinely funny and refreshing

I am from México, from a small town with very little natural resources and I can identify with this so very much. I grew up with no tv, sometimes we had radio, so we use lots of objects to play with.🥰

To be fair, diapers are pretty expensive and not environmentally friendly, so Trevor's method was pretty good, plus the child wouldn't get rashes or chafing etc 👌😁

This guy literally turns everything into a joke, even sad/painful things. He makes life fun really.

Trevor is just a gift to humanity. People like him don’t com around that often.

Each time Trevor relates how his late childhood looked like in South Africa, it reminds of Poland in 90s.

In South Africa as long as you have food,shelter & clothes.Thats all that matters.

I love how children can get so much enjoyment with just imagination - I remember when I was kid, my best friend and I's favorite two things to do were playing in the creek and sand with rocks, we had a whole imaginary world with just these little shiny rocks; and building a massive dollhouse out of shoeboxes and random bits and bobs we found for a little toy dog I found in a sandbox. like a gum box would become a flat screen tv. some of my fondest memories!

doctor: “you have 18 minutes and 57 seconds left to live” me: