

“Learn to use the university environment to engage with people you’d never ordinarily meet in daily life. “Our social circles are so small,” he said. Noah had some advice for college students on preparing for the “real” world of adulthood: Take advantage of the organic diversity that exists in any university community.

“I use humor as my tool to process what frustration or anger or pain that I may be feeling about what’s happening to other people.” I try to make a room, no matter how big it is, feel like a small room of friends,” he said. “What I really enjoy is being in a space where we’re all laughing, regardless of what our original story is. His show at the Tsongas Center may be less news-focused and political than “The Daily Show,” because when Noah does standup, he wants everyone in the audience to laugh. “And so I think to myself, ‘What is the truth that I’d like to say?’ and I find, generally speaking, that comedy then comes to me from that place, because comedy is a filter through which I process all of my information.” I use humor as my tool to process what frustration or anger or pain that I may be feeling about what’s happening to other people,” he said.
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“I love that phrase, ‘Comedy is tragedy plus time,’ so I try to think about how long it’s been and how human beings can process that information,” he said.Įxpanding on that theme, Noah talked about how he approaches news that upsets him – and manages to transform that into the incisive political humor people expect from “The Daily Show.” Maybe he’ll talk about the gas explosions and fires in Lawrence, Andover and North Andover – although it may be too soon. Maybe Noah will joke about all the blank ballots in the 3rd Congressional District race, the ensuing recount and the state investigation.

“I like each show to feel unique, so whenever I get to a state or a country, I try to hunker down and learn as much as I can and get whatever material I can.” “I always try to write a piece of the show specifically for the place that I’m in,” Noah said in a telephone interview before his Oct. You can expect to hear several when comedian Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” comes to campus next month.
