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RE: Trevor Noah is a name you don't know. For now.
April 1, 2015 at 2:59 pm
(April 1, 2015 at 2:39 pm)Alex K Wrote: I'm not upset that he attacked atheists. I find the quality lacking and was worried that he's not bright enough for tds
I was referring to the other tweets that are all over the news about women and Jews. The media doesn't give a shit if anyone attacks atheists.
For the record, I'm not bothered that he attacks atheists, either. What bothers me is that the attacks are at the level of bored theist internet troll.
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RE: Trevor Noah is a name you don't know. For now.
April 2, 2015 at 11:53 am
Breaking: Trevor Noah Reportedy Fired As The Daily Show Host
http://thedailybanter.com/2015/04/breaki...show-host/
Quote:Well, that was fast. Barely a day after a series of controversial tweets surfaced, The Daily Banter can exclusively report that newly-minted Daily Show host Trevor Noah has apparently been unminted. Amid a blistering inferno of internet outrage that even Patton Oswalt couldn’t protect him from, Noah’s tenure ended during a heated meeting of Comedy Central executives and producers, to be announced on Monday’s episode of The Daily Show
True story or April Fool's joke? I guess we'll have to wait for more reports, or until Monday's TDS.
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RE: Trevor Noah is a name you don't know. For now.
April 2, 2015 at 1:02 pm
I can't find anything that corroborates that story.
It's just too bad he didn't predict that he'd be TDS host 4 years ago, and stopped himself from making shitty joke tweets that will inevitably get taken as his actual viewpoints.
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RE: Trevor Noah is a name you don't know. For now.
April 2, 2015 at 3:02 pm
The only thing I could find was a second article that cited the same "source" (the person in the meeting) so it's still unconfirmed as far as I know.
I tried to find out if The Daily Banter was a satire site like The Onion but I didn't find anything.
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RE: Trevor Noah is a name you don't know. For now.
April 2, 2015 at 3:48 pm
(April 2, 2015 at 3:35 pm)Alex K Wrote: Erm, has anyone of you read past the first sentence? 
Quote:Stewart was also in the meeting, the source said, and tried to persuade Noah to repent, asking him what possessed him to make so many Jewish jokes on Twitter.
“I learned it from watching you!” Noah replied, throwing his prop yarmulke in Stewart’s face and storming out of the executive suite.
PSHAW! That's, like, the seventh or eighth sentence in the article!
(It does appear to be an April Fool's joke)
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RE: Trevor Noah is a name you don't know. For now.
April 3, 2015 at 3:19 am
I always wondered if noah had a first name. I knew he lived a long time, but for some reason I imagined him being white...
