Trevor’s Favorite Toy - Between the Scenes | The Daily Show 

This guy is such an insanely good storyteller, he doesn't get enough credit for it. Great comedian, great satirist, but hugely talented at just maintaining interest in relatively mundane stories. That's not easy.

I remember owning a face-brick and the top part broke , so it became a convertible. Trevor's stories reminds me of my childhood so much 🇿🇦👏🏾

I grew up in Nairobi Kenya and I was the weird girl who played with bricks with boys.I loved it.

If I manage to go to a Trevor Noah signing, gonna bring the best damn brick for him to autograph.

It’s so sweet how all the south africans have a nostalgic party in the comments about their childhood bricks.

Bricks are something we all take for granite.

the funny thing is that 25 years later my brick is still there in my backyard ...wow

I'm from Uganda, a girl and yet I relate......its always amazing when I hear stories of other African childhoods, 8 out of 10 times, its the same beautiful hustle..

You had to make sure that your fingers don't get caught in between the bricks when going in for collision. Nails were lost on impact.

Giant empty boxes. They could be turned into anything- shops, spaceships, cars, anything you can think of. It was seriously the best. Washing machine boxes and fridge boxes were the best...

The brick with the two holes was the best... It looked like a convertible when broken diagonally. Imagination is everything

This is one of the first Daily Shows comment section I haven’t seen a single insult. Kids and talking about childhood is really pure and unadulterated fun. What went wrong before adulthood? How do we become what we are? Full of envy, greed and lust? What happened in those formative years that we can’t be that pure form of humanity we all once were?

“Kids will play with anything” is the truest thing. I remember being 6 years old, getting in a laundry hamper and pretending I was driving an F1 car. Good times in that hamper.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂This was funny... Even funnier when you're a South African dude that grew up playing bricks as cars. Those were one of the best days of my life... We had so much fun

Dude!! Mexican here also played and stoled bricks!!! 🤣

I am Zimbabwean and he just described a big part of my childhood right there...

Trevor just sent me down memory lane. Sounds like a crazy story, but for some like myself, thats part of childhood.

Love that he says "You can buy all the bricks you want"... Like, you can also buy a real, actual car, you know that, right!? xD

Before Trevor spoke I was thinking of my mother's favorite (and only) toy when she was a child: a BRICK! But she pretended it was a doll, not a car, and she and her sister would wrap it in a piece of discarded rag in order to "dress" it. This was in South Dakota, not South Africa.

I'm loving all of the comments from nostalgic South Africans who used to play with bricks too.

Trevor Noah is just so awesomely funny! I absolutely love watching his monologues and the behind the scenes segments.❤️😀👍

Me and my older brothers played with face bricks too! Ooh the nostalgia 😂🇿🇦

It's funny how he explains it exactly how we used to play as kids🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.... Good brick times indeed

So relatable, have a friend who grew up in Zimbabwe and his favorite toy was two planks of wood nailed together( his helicopter). So I decided for Christmas on year to get him to bits of wood, nails and a hammer, he genuinely started crying he was so happy.

I love hearing people talk about their favourite childhood games. They always kinda spark up, you know? They get this glow and it's like they're putting themselves back in their old street, I love seeing that.

hahaha before he even said brick... my first thought was this stick I used as my pretend gun. but I said to myself that wasn't a real toy. now it is!! thank you Trevor for helping my to accept my toy stick

My brick was like a Mercedes C63 bro!! Shout of from Botswana 🇧🇼 ✌🏽

Trevor is reminder that good people can always find happiness even in dark and hard times. A simple brick can help a child in Soweto, during the government transition period, after Apartheid, to have fun. Gotta love that.

I laughed so hard, wow this takes me back. This was what life used to be like for us kids in the townships, in South Africa. But it felt normal because this was our reality, this was all we knew, well until you visited your aunt who lived in a nicer location (this was the case for me), her kids had actual toys (lol I was blown away, this was the stuff we only saw on TV and then went outside, picked up a brick and imagined it was the real thing). The first time I had a glimpse of knowing that I might be poor, was when I started attending a school that is far from where I lived, a ‘better school’ (I had to be at the bus stop at 5:30 am, by the way I was 12 years old at this point). My friends always had better lunch than I but never understood why this was the case. But even as a kid you started to acknowledge your place in society. High school was probably one of my worst experiences, where your friends had better clothes, had way more carrying money than you, and they were being dropped off and picked up by their moms or dads, while some of us had to use the train and then walk 30 mins from the train station to where we lived. But this wasn’t even the biggest challenge at the time, I just remember it because more than 12 years later I still remember what it felt like to be in that position. I always heard of poor people but never saw myself as one. I looked at my friends lives and then looked at mine and saw that I had way less than what they had. My friends (from the townships) and I had the bare minimum (some times even less). Even though we grew up in those conditions, it’s crazy how life has turned out for some of us.

A brick? I will never look at a brick the same again! LOL

If only someone was half as fond of me as Trevor is of a goddamn brick.

Amazing how a sweet story like this takes you back to you own childhood and for a moment makes you forget all the bad things going on in the world. Love it. Thanks Trevor... Made my day.

whoa! A man who had nothing but a brick as a toy is host of "The Daily Show"! Inspired!

Your face brick is broken? Don't despair it's now a convertible (islahla)

I'm from India & i can totally relate to it. During my childhood we had sand dunes,bricks, lying at many construction places & every kid from society will play together with it making tunnels, sand castles etc.😃 Nowadays small kids are hooked to their smartphones 24 hours a day. 😔

This was the sweetest thing I've ever heard of ♥️😍

I love the between the scenes, so funny

In Costa Rica we used to look for cardboard boxes, once we found a few big ones, we climbed hills in parks and sometimes in pastures, and threw ourselves downhill with the boxes like a sled all day! until the cardboard was too damaged to keep up, so you had to look for a new box to keep playing

I love how he speaks Xhosa on the show. (Hooo istina sami)..😁😁😁

I find this very relevant to me or any other kids come from a third world country. Mine is a pair of chopstick. Man! These old days was poor AF but still so much fun. Thanks Trevor!

I love these stories!

I feel like a lot of bricks are gonna get sent to Comedy Central now.... Sorry mail department! :p

Trevor, I love you man! You make the African experience so relatable and funny, now I wish we grew up together

"If we had wheels, we wouldn't have these problems." GOLD!

Ahhhh man the brick, we we're all so poor and definitely not miserable. You know who was miserable? Miserable people. :)

😂😂 ahh those days, use to build a garage for my brick car with bricks 😂😂😂😂

Lol when he threw some Zulu for emphasizing and that extra spicy 😂😂😂😂😂love it

Humble and honest💞

As a South African i grew up with that type of brick and it was amazing and that was my favorite and never needed other toys those were the good old times

I LOVE this story. Growing up poor in a wooded area, us kids were always on the lookout for the best stick to use outside when we played. A sturdy stick with no pitch on it was the best to beat a path through sticker bushes, dig holes, knock down spider webs --and on occasion, have sword fights. 😏

Such a heartwarming story... is amazing how Trevor manages to tell a story that most people would say it in a melancholic way but he does it with a positive attitude and a funny tone.

I love these segments! Trevor is such a good story teller ✨❤️

Lol Trevor taking me back to my brick days...😂😂😂

Trumps wall would never finish if American kids played this game🤣

When you’re from Mexico and this was your childhood as well❤️👍and you are smiling like a fool at the fond memories this story brings you!! Thank you Noah

I'm never going to tire of Trevor's stories am I. This guy makes me fall in love with him more and more man

😂😂😂 taking me through memory lane ...

LOL this is funnier as a South African. I'm a born Free(born after 1994),and even though we had toys we still played with Bricks because they were just more fun and didn't break easily unlike Toy cars. Face Bricks >>>> actual toys

Lmao. I was born in 98 and I can still relate.

Trump wants go build a wall.. Bring all the South african kids overnight 🤣🤣🤣 No more wall lol

"You guys ram me first, I'll just chill" 😂

LOL loving all the South Africans in the comments reminiscing about their bricks. When I was growing up our house in Johannesburg had wooden parquet floors. We would loosen them and then build towers with them. Basically how kids play jenga these days. My mom would freak out and made us put it back.... I still have a bag of parquet flooring with stored safely away next to the monopoly set.

The most interesting thing about watching trevor’s shows is how real and relatable they are.I should know i am Zimbabwean.....

This is so true..am from Tanzania and we played with all sorts of things ,from bricks,sand,plastic paper bag football's,sticks,coca cola covers ...and it felt amazing being a part of a crew that had the same toys or aspired to have them...we would play games with wagers to take the other kids toy's

I love being South African man 😭😭😭 PS: My favourite toys were stones and pebbles. You can play hopscotch, amagenda ("catch and throw"), or throw them across the dam, or use them in a slingshot to hig pigeons.... They're Transformers, basically! Also, WOOL!

Try taking an iPad out of a kid’s hand and telling them to play with bricks now 😂

My favourite part was when we had to go to an imaginary petrol/gas station to fill up. We'd make a "glug glug glug glug" sound with our mouths too hahaha

The 38 thumbs down are from peole who wants a brick

Marbles! I haven't thought about them in 50 years, but marbles! Circles in the dirt in the summer, and pots dug in packed snow in the winter! Shooters, cats' eyes, carrying them in a Seagrams bag.

That is so true!! My son used to play with big a rock shaped like Volkswagen in Monterrey , Mexico, because we lived close to downtown it was hard to get a rock and houses were built with those big concrete bricks. He is now 28 years old, such a good boy.

3:53 gold! I was waiting for that joke!

He is such a cutie pie and must be protected at all costs ♥️♥️♥️

Best toy is a cardboard box you can sit in. Car, plane, whatever you wanted it to be.

I live for the in between scenes stories. Nobody can story tell like Trevor!!!!!!

When I was little I lived in Mexico and I also loved playing with bricks!!

When you said a brick, i couldnt help but remember my childhood days...those brick cars were life man

Such a gorgeous talented beautiful man - love Trevi ❤️

My favorite toy growing up was a piece of string with stick on one end with a rag attached to it. It made a loud whistle when you got spinning real fast. Then when that got old we would take a corn cob an stick feathers on one end to make a whirlybird.

I'm from India. i can totally relate to it.😃

I love the fact that he includes isizulu when he's telling the story

I love these BTS videos. These kids that Trevor grew up with had a great imagination. Toys are optional for kids. When I was little, our favorite "toys" we're making fortresses out of sofa cushions, uses sheets for tents. My parents brought us toys but the simple things are my fondest memories.

I just love this guy. Never saw anyone more interesting than him. He's amazing

Thank you Trevor for facilitating the sweetest and funniest thread of childhood memories I've read in a very long time. Loving people's stories of childhood games and simple pleasures!

I love Trevor 😅💕

This is so awesome because around 5 years old, my brother and I played under our house (on Saturday mornings) with bricks, we too pushed them around like they were cars. Man this takes me back😂😂😂😂😂

This brick analogy is awesome! 🤣

There was an episode of Phineas and Ferb that ended with bricks being the most popular toy! XD

Fred Flinstone would be proud of your toys.

in the early 60s my dad used to bring home linoleum tile samples that were like large strong cards and i used to build buildings out of them. good times!

My favorite toy was a piece of paper. I didn't even know why, I just found the paper and claimed it as mine. I didn't even know what was written on it. I wouldn't let anyone touch it and I didn't even draw on it or anything, it was just there.

I love your stories Trevor. I remember growing up in Seychelles and we didn't have all those fancy toys as well since our parents couldn't afford to buy any for us. Come school holidays we'd play with anything we could find. From old car tyres to handmade toys crafted from coconut leaves and twigs. Man, those were some fun days. Nice to hear you talk about these so openly without shame. I'd do the same if I had my own TV show. God bless

This turns anything into an excellent joke. That's what makes a great comedian. 😂😂😂😂😂

When poverty meets ingenuity. Some kids in Africa can build beautiful toys out of scraps of metal, wood, remains of anything really and you'll later find some of those toys sold for a small fortune in big cities like New-York, London, Paris.

Too cute.. Such an amazing story-teller.

Trevor's street-cred went up three billion points today! XD

We used to run around with sticks pretending they were guns! We called them "pistons" 😂😂😂.

I'm from the northeast in the United States, and I don't know if kids growing up in the 90s played Pencil break. It's a very similar game to Trevor's brick game. Basically you would take your pencil and try to snap your opponent's pencil in half. Your opponent would hold theirs horizontally by holding it at each end, and then you as the 'attacker' would try to chop it by putting a little torque on the eraser end of the pencil it by pulling it back with your finger, while still holding the tip end, and then letting go of the eraser end to have it come crashing down. The trick was to get the metal part (the eraser part) of the pencil to strike. You would take turns going back and forth until someone's pencil broke. As a person attacking, you had to make sure you didn't pull your pencil back so far that you accidentally snapped yours, but not weak enough so that you did no damage to your opponent. There were certain rules on how long your pencil had to be. Shorter pencils weren't allowed because, the shorter the pencil the harder they were to break. The worst pencils were Dixon Ticonderoga pencils because they were made of compressed wood and super soft. The best ones were ones that were rounded, had a little bit of polish or shellac to them. Those were beasts. Guys would walk around with their favorite pencil in their pocket, and teachers didn't understand why we weren't using them to write, not realizing that we had this game.

For us it was stones. Perfect granite stones are no bigger than an inch across, and must be symetrical. It got so bad our grade school banned stones at some point, and conduct searches in kids pocket to confiscate 'contraband' stones. Wierd times.

Trevor, you are such an excellent story teller. You let us into the world of your childhood and you make us see the genuine joy that you had then. If there isn’t a brick in the toy hall of fame, there should be. You make face brick money now!

Can't help but simply love this man! So genuine!