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He was pulled over and arrested for auto theft and spent a week in jail before being bailed out. One night when he was a teenager working (and living) at his stepfather’s auto repair shop, he borrowed a car from the shop. 4.7 189 Ratings £9.99 Listen £9.99 Listen.

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In a series of hilarious anecdotes, he recounts some of his adventures in the extremely poor area he grew up in. Living proof of his parents' indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the first years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government. Noah was a prankster and a bit of a wild child. Noah was born a crime, son of a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison.

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Noah’s honest about the fact that he thought he got special treatment because he was special, rather than because of his skin color he points out that he didn’t have any other light-skinned kids to show him that it wasn’t because he was so wonderful. Noah didn’t have it easy, though as a light-skinned Black man in South Africa he recounts that he often had it easier than others because he was mistaken for white-which spared him beatings and other abuses.

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Even if you're already familiar with Noah's background, his hilarious and insightful memoir is chock full of facts about the comedian that will surprise you.

He’s an outsider, of course, because he was born and raised in South Africa, the son of a Xhosa mother and a Swiss-German father. His recently-published memoir, Born a Crime, has spent 13 weeks on The New York Times’ Bestseller List, confirming that Noah’s brand of intelligent outsider comedy is winning over audiences in America. Since then, Noah has proven that he has what it takes to last as a late-night host and continues to see his star rise. After a rocky first couple of episodes, some predicted he wouldn’t last long in the role. Before he even began hosting, calls rolled in for him to step down. Shortly after he was announced as host, some Tweets he’d sent a few years earlier surfaced, some of which were deemed tasteless, some even anti-semitic. Noah’s assumption of the hosting duties wasn’t without controversy. He shares his hilarious and moving experiences of growing up as a mixed-race child, his mother's influence, and his political and social observations. It’s easy to forget how relatively unknown Stewart himself was when he took over for Craig Kilborne in 1999. A comedy audiobook by the host of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah, about his coming-of-age story during the apartheid and post-apartheid era in South Africa. Unless you keep up with the standup comedy scene, the arrival of Trevor Noah last year as Jon Stewart’s replacement on might have been a bit of a surprise.