Trevor Noah is a name you don't know. For now.

[Clueless Morgan]

Whether or not he can be sufficiently political to keep my viewership is another issue altogether.

I've heard some people on facebook expressing skepticism about him being politically savvy enough about American politics to really hold his own.  On the one hand I can see their point, on the other I'm not convinced it's a big enough deal simply because he's from another country.  John Oliver is British and he does a bang-up job shitting on American politics - he does at least as good, if not better, than other satirists who are home-grown.

I don't know for how long Oliver followed American politics before landing his TDS job or whether it was all OTJ training.

Trevor Noah, if not sufficiently versed in American political satire, will be thrown in the deep end and he'll either sink or swim. The question is, if he learned to swim, will he do it fast enough to keep JS's audience? 

My reservations about him stem from his weak joke delivery.  Although, nearly every person they bring on new starts out that way.  It must be a nerves thing or something.

That's my main contention about him.  I'm just not sure he's funny in the context of TDS yet.  His stand up may be good, but will that translate?

And FFS, if you're going to make jokes about atheists, at least make them funny ones.  Colbert has done atheist jokes that, while I could explain in 30 seconds why it was incorrect/a strawman, were still funny jokes.  TN's tweets border on me wondering if he's a Poe, if he's trolling, or if he's yet another theist kicking the same dead horse all the others have kicked.


I have also seen on my fb today a guy accusing people who don't think TN is funny, or question his knowledge of American politics and satire as being racists.