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Under Apartheid, Trevor Noah's Mom Taught Him To Face Injustice With Humor

Trevor Noah — who took over hosting from Jon Stewart in 2015 — remembers watching <em>The Daily Show </em>on CNN in South Africa. &quot;It looked like a news show and it had the same colors as CNN and the ticker,&quot; he says. &quot;I just worked under the assumption that it was part of the news programming. ... I thought that Jon Stewart was a news anchor who didn't take his job seriously.&quot; (Getty Images)
Trevor Noah — who took over hosting from Jon Stewart in 2015 — remembers watching The Daily Show on CNN in South Africa. "It looked like a news show and it had the same colors as CNN and the ticker," he says. "I just worked under the assumption that it was part of the news programming. ... I thought that Jon Stewart was a news anchor who didn't take his job seriously." (Getty Images)

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