One of my first thoughts when this hour-long Netflix comedy special ended was "George Carlin would have loved this.
Trevor Noah has deservedly acquired a large American TV audience as host of THE DAILY SHOW on Comedy Central. I needed some laughs over the weekend and checked out his Netflix special, TREVOR NOAH: I WISH YOU WOULD. His one-man show was performed in Toronto, Canada. The infectious charm of his Comedy Central show personality carries over to this very funny special. He's engaging, witty, smart and insightful.
He opens with somewhat of a German lesson. This comes about after he tells the audience that his mother is a Black South African woman and his father, whom he'd not seen in awhile, was a white man from Switzerland who spoke German. Trevor went to visit his dad and learned some German in order to surprise him.
In the one-hour special, we'll realize that Trevor has a gift for accents. His comments about characters who deserve to die in horror movies broke me up as did his accurate assessment of how the pandemic didn't always bring about our most honorable feelings while we were in months of lockdown.
After a sweet bit about how Canada's Justin Trudeau's reported "scandals" were not so scandalous, he launches into a bit on American presidents and their vocal patterns. This is after he skewers the empty-headed presidential statements from Donald Trump.
This special was performed post-Queen Elizabeth's death. Noah does a routine about colonialism vs the royal funeral.
One of the funniest and most brightly-written pieces he performs is about his boyhood Indian and how that friendship influenced his Indian restaurant habits when he dined with friends while in Scotland for a popular and annual comedy festival. About Scotland, Noah says "...the people are lovely and warm. The place isn't -- but the people are."
I loved that story. You must pay attention to the previous one about his Indian friend, about Justin Trudeau and the tale about learning a German word following his wacky encounter in a German sandwich shop during his journey to visit his father.
To me, Trevor Noah's piece on our pandemic behavior was very George Carlin. Fabulous.
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