{"id":39124,"date":"2014-12-29T22:35:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T22:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39124"},"modified":"2014-12-29T22:35:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T22:35:15","slug":"why-mixed-race-comic-was-born-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39124","title":{"rendered":"Why mixed-race comic was ‘born a crime’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why mixed-race comic was ‘born a crime’<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Cable News Network<\/a> (CNN)
\n2014-12-04<\/p>\n

Jessica Ellis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Teo Kermeliotis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

London (CNN) — When it comes to getting ready for a show, fast-rising South African<\/a> comedian Trevor Noah<\/a> has it all figured out.<\/p>\n

“My ideal setting is I walk from the streets, backstage and straight onto the stage,” says Noah, who last year became the first African comedian to perform on Jay Leno’s The Tonight Show<\/em><\/a> in the United States.<\/p>\n

“Two minutes and I am on the stage. That way in my head I have gone from my world and then into a social setting with my friends. I want my audience to be my friends — that is when they will get the best comedy. If they see me as a performer, they won’t get the best show.”<\/p>\n

At just 28 years old, Noah is already a big name in his country’s fledgling standup scene, as well as a cover star for Rolling Stone South Africa. But despite treating the audience as friends, he’s not afraid of provocative subject matter, with his latest show called “The Racist.”<\/p>\n

he son of a black South African woman and a white Swiss man who met when interracial relationships were illegal in South Africa, Noah jokes that he was “born a crime.” On stage, he draws upon his particular life experiences to tackle thorny issues with his funny, and sometimes trenchant, punchlines…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why mixed-race comic was ‘born a crime’ Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-12-04 Jessica Ellis Teo Kermeliotis London (CNN) — When it comes to getting ready for a show, fast-rising South African comedian Trevor Noah has it all figured out. “My ideal setting is I walk from the streets, backstage and straight onto the stage,” says […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,24,8,520,20],"tags":[9447,3142,18915,18914,15219],"class_list":["post-39124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-south-africa","category-usa","tag-cable-news-network","tag-cnn","tag-jessica-ellis","tag-teo-kermeliotis","tag-trevor-noah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}