Born A Crime

April 27, 2023 3:44 PM

The 2011 documentary You Laugh But It's True [1h23m] is about the blossoming stand up comedy scene in South Africa and Trevor Noah's meteoric rise to fame as he moved toward his "hour", the one-man show which brought him to international fame, The Daywalker. All this predates his tenure on The Daily Show by several years. This movie is available on a lot of streaming services and the advertisement load on this YouTube video is insane, so look elsewhere if that makes you crazy.
posted by hippybear (2 comments total)

I look forward to seeing this in the weekend, when I have the time :-)
posted by mumimor at 1:15 AM on April 28, 2023

I teach Born a Crime and love interspersing this documentary throughout the reading! It's great to see the outhouse he despised, his gran and the room where something happened, and his mom, Patricia after [redacted]. It's also really interesting for the racism the white comedians shower on him and other Black South African comedians. Thanks for the post!
posted by Snowishberlin at 10:06 AM on April 29, 2023 [1 favorite]