My FAVORITE Episode SO FAR! - What Now with Trevor Noah & Friends!

- First of all, you've never had a job. - [Anele] Yes, it was the first time you worked. - Like a 9 to 5. - You know, the things you guys say to me. - No, you haven't. - I don't feel like our parents were hosting the Grammy's at 40, though. - But I think fighting for freedom is harder. - Yeah. (Trevor chuckles) - Let tell you, you know what's funny? Growing up I didn't have friends, what I had were my cousins. So like literally I didn't even know, like you could hang out with people that weren't

your family, really. (Trevor laughs) (upbeat music) - I left South Africa to go host "The Daily Show." - Was that a big change? - It's a big change in that I now live in America. - [Anele] Okay. - But at that time nobody asked me, "Wow, what a big change for you." - No, no, no, but I'll say. Let me tell you why I think it was a big change for you. First of all, you've never had a job. - [Anele] Yes, was the first time you worked. - Like a 9 to 5. - You know the things you guys say to me. - No,

you haven't, you have not. - This person just said, I've never had a job. - You haven't, dude. - You never had a job. - Guys. - You never had to wake up at a certain time. - Guys, what ridiculousness. - No. - Okay, let's start with my jobs. Let's start with my job. - Yeah? - Okay, wait, hold on. - Let's start with my jobs. - [Sizwe] Let's hear. - Let's start with my jobs. - Yeah. - Okay. - First job I had was I worked at a video game arcade. - [Anele] Okay. - I had to be there at a specific time

. - But this is now before my time. - Yeah, but that's fine. - I hear you. - I've had a job, I worked at a video game arcade. You know, if you would buy like tokens and stuff? - Yeah, yeah? - I was the person who turned your money into tokens. - I'm gonna put my hand up when you get to a real job. But walk us through this. - Be very careful, this is a real job for many people. My second job I had was, I used to read electricity meters for my mom's business. - Okay (chuckles). - Without that you

don't know how much electricity you've used. This is a real job. - Okay, yeah. - This is a real job. (Anele snorts) (Sizwe laughs) (Trevor chuckles) - That's Anele's laugh snort, by the way. We don't just have pigs running around in South Africa. I know a lot of this on audio sounds weird. That's the second job I had. Third job I had was, I worked as a... I mean, look, I won't count like let's say TVish stuff. - [Sizwe] Yeah. - I was a taxi driver for a year. - [Sizwe] Yeah. - Like, that's a job

, guys. Waking up at 4:00 AM every morning and then driving until like 9:00 PM. That was a job, job. - Okay. - And then now, I think these are real jobs by the way. - Okay, so let me say, you've never had a job since I met you. - Can you qualify? Never had an office job. - Bro, you just never had a job. - What does that mean? - Let me tell you what it means. It means I would call you sometimes at 1:30 and be like, "Yo, where are you?" Like, "Ah, chilling at home." - [Anele] Let's roll. = Then I'

d be like, "Yeah, let's roll." - [Anele] "Let's roll." - That's not a job, bro, now anyway (chuckles). - And my mom goes, "Your lives are so different to mine when I was 40." - Do you feel like they had more responsibilities at 40 than we do at 40? - Our parents? - Yeah. - Yeah, they were fighting for like freedom and stuff, bro. (Sizwe laughs) They had a lot more responsibility. - It's funny, well, when they were 40 it was 1996. - Yeah, I mean, we had freedom by then. - I mean we had freedom, b

ut still I think our parents. - I don't feel like our parents were hosting the Grammy's at 40, though. - That's funny (laughs). - But I think fighting for freedom is harder. - Yeah. (Trevor laughs) - [Sizwe] Let me tell you, you know what's funny? You know what's funny? - Imagine Nelson Mandela hearing this conversation. - No, Nelson, you know what I think is funny? - Can you imagine Nelson Mandela hearing this conversation right now? - Let me tell you what I think is actually funny, right? - Le

t me tell you something. Fighting for freedom was hard, but you know what is so much harder hosting the Grammy's. - [Sizwe] That's funny. - Knowing that Jay Z and Beyonce are there. I cannot believe it. What a stressful occurrence. I would fight Apartheid twice before I would host an event where there's Taylor Swift. What a tough time. (everyone laughs) My birthday is upon me. I don't know why I said it like that, but this is my 40th birthday. - Yeah. - Right. - And everyone tells you that it's

a special birthday. I don't necessarily feel that. - It isn't. - Thank you very much, Sizwe. - Oh, 'cause you turned 40 last year. - Well there you have it. - And nothing has happened. - So you see. But because I always come home, well, I try to always come home for my birthdays. Everyone said to me, "What are you gonna do for your birthday?" Everyone says that. - I asked you this. - You only asked me that so you could get to talking about your birthday. - How strategic because I wanted it. - Sh

e's always doing something on her birthday. - Yeah, she's always doing something for her birthday. - I wanted to be like, "So what are doing?" - I'm like, "I thought you'd never ask." - If there's one thing, Anele's always planning her birthday. You know when someone asks you a question just to get to their thing, she's like, "What are you doing?" And I was like, "Ah, I don't know." And then I could see, I was like, "And what are you doing?" "I'm glad you asked, friend." And then she ran me thro

ugh it and she never asked me again. So when I was growing up, the only rule in my household, once you were old enough to be functioning by yourself. - [Anele] Which is? - 13 and up. - Okay. - Right. - My mom used Bible years for everything. So in the Bible they say you're a man when you're 13. My mom was like, "That's how it works." So once I was older than 13, and it's the way it works in my house, you are now responsible for your birthday and for getting things for everyone else in the family

. Like you're supposed to get the cake and the drinks and the candy, that's all your job now. - Damn, no wonder you are working early, bruh, 13? - Not even 16. I feel like 16 is the age where... - How you buying a cake at 13, what is it? - No, no, dude, no. No, I wouldn't buy it myself. I would have money to buy it from my mom, but it was my job to buy it. - Okay. - So you're taking care of? - I like that you thought I was just like working. - I mean, bro. - No, no, no. - I never threw my own pa

rty ever, actually. - Do you even care about birthdays? I feel like you care less than me. - No, so here's what I think. I do care about birthdays. Growing up, I didn't have friends. What I had were my cousins. So like literally, I didn't even know like you could hang out with people that weren't your family, really. (Trevor laughs) (Anele laughs) I was like, "What is this? Do me and you have the same surname?" (everyone laughs) - This explains so much right now. - I hope that AI helps us reimag

ine what it means to be human. - [Sizwe] Yeah. Because I think we've gone through this whole like we work for a living thing. It's boring now guys, let's be honest. We are like, come on, guys. It's like the snow white and the seven dwarves. ♪ Hi ho hi ho ♪ - No, no, ideally, we shouldn't be working - It's like, come on. for a living. - I just feel like we could get to the next level of being human now. So we had that period where it was about planting wheat and then we had the industrial revolut

ion. What's the next thing? Do you know what I mean? - I hear what you're saying. - Maybe like the future is like spending more time working on moves for Beyonce's songs for instance. Like I'm just saying. - But how many of us - But there still needs to be can do that? some form of productivity. - Yeah. - Yeah, we think, that's why I'm saying the AI can do that. - So everyone, all the billions of people in the world are gonna be able to not work and be fine. - Like just do a new thing is what my

dream is. - No, there has to be productivity. - [Anele] No. - Otherwise, what else do you do? - It's a lofty way to think. - I think you guys are stuck in the past. - I think it's a lofty way to think. - Yes, and that's what, I said my hopes and dreams, guys. - Okay, so wait, wait? - You guys want me to dream of office presentations? - Yes! - Explain to me in this world of yours. - You literally said, my dream of AI is to make better presentations. This is your dream. - Okay, wait. - I'm tellin

g you about my dreams. And then you're like, "These are lofty dreams, Trevor." - [Anele] They are! Because not 8 billion people - How can you dream so big? can just say, "Oh, we're not gonna work." - That's why it's a dream. - Your thing is around now you can download it. - [Sizwe] Tell me more about your dream. You wake up and do what? - You know, if Martin Luther King Jr. had friends like you, he would've just said, "My dream is that we can like sometimes smile with each." Guys, you gotta drea

m big. - And I'm trying to ask you, tell me about this big dream. - But every dream has got a practicality to it. So run me through the practical side of it. - [Sizwe] You wake up and do what? - So on your side, I'll start with you again. - [Sizwe] Yeah. - We'll go Bruce Lee. On this side, you are still stuck in the world of doing. You're a very pragmatic person, but you're stuck in the world of doing. I'm saying AI could put us in a place where doing itself changes and our purpose changes. Like

back in the days when people were building the pyramids, they weren't like chain stores and people weren't running businesses and stuff. That's maybe why they built the pyramids. They're like, "What are we doing, guys?" And someone was like, "Yo guys, why don't we build something and then we don't tell anybody how we build it, then they get confused." - Yo, I'd rather make a presentation than build a pyramid. (Sizwe laughs) What the hell, build a pyramid, oh, bro! - Show be one presentation tha

t has lasted 1000s of years. - [Sizwe] No ways! - Who's gonna be talking about your presentation in 1000 years? - My mans, I'm not trying to carry you rocks. What is this? (Sizwe laughs) Oh, whoa, no, no. (upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) (upbeat music fades)