Trevor Noah took a ride with Jerry Seinfeld for the latter’s web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and talked about how he reacted to landing his new gig hosting The Daily Show. He also awkwardly schooled Seinfeld about racism in South Africa.
Throughout the chat, Seinfeld is pretty clueless about the basic politics of South Africa. Explaining the logistics of apartheid, Noah tells him:
“Free speech was against the law, so let’s start there. After 1994, it now became, it is no longer illegal to be black, so you can now do things. So start by sitting on the benches, start by riding on the bus…‘Can we tell jokes?’ Yeah, you can tell jokes.”
Noah also talks about how his parents managed to spend time together while apartheid was legal and how his mom pretended to be his dad’s maid:
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