New Daily Show host Trevor Noah is getting the typical welcome to the national stage––the Twitter version of a Red Wedding––but some comedians have been dismissively snark-tweeting about the controversy around some of Noah’s more politically-incorrect tweets.
Here’s what comedians on Twitter had to say about Noah’s controversial tweets:
It's not because the jokes are offensive, it's because they're terrible.
— Max Silvestri (@maxsilvestri) March 31, 2015
Advice to children who want to be President: Never join Twitter.
— Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) March 31, 2015
Dance like no one's watching; tweet like one day you will be held up as the moral authority of the land.
— Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) March 31, 2015
to be fair to trevor noah, all foreign comics are at least a decade behind us in what they think is funny. #fakeoutrage
— daniel tosh (@danieltosh) March 31, 2015
we all know the only acceptable way for a comedian to use twitter is to unsuccessfully shame an airline PR account into giving them a refund
— joe mande (@JoeMande) March 31, 2015
If you've tweeted it, Sauron's eye will find it
— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) March 31, 2015
I've never made an offensive joke. I can't wait to be vetted.
— mike mulloy (@fakemikemulloy) March 31, 2015
.@Trevornoah please do not let this scandal take away from the importance of the lego couch. twitter dot com needs this.
— mike mulloy (@fakemikemulloy) March 31, 2015
Liberals are really great at picking their battles. Taking down Trevor Noah and Kimmy Schmidt is just a warmup for the real stuff, right?
— Mark Agee (@MarkAgee) March 31, 2015
If Trevor Noah's two year old tweet is the worst thing that ever happens to you you're in pretty good shape.
— Chris Franjola (@ChrisFranjola) March 31, 2015
I'm with the right wing,a daily show host should NEVER make edgy jokes. They should only say offensive things when they mean them sincerely.
— Moshe Kasher (@moshekasher) March 31, 2015
Welcome to America, Trevor Noah!!! Here's an introductory packet detailing how offensive it was when you tweeted something mean 4 years ago
— Natalie Shure (@nataliesurely) March 31, 2015
your liberal outrage might be more convincing if it weren't so obvious you just scrolled through four years of tweets hoping to get mad
— Natalie Shure (@nataliesurely) March 31, 2015
All this hullaballoo over dopey four-year-old tweets proves there's a problem with digital media content, not with Trevor Noah.
— Natalie Shure (@nataliesurely) March 31, 2015
But seriously, comedy is the only art form that inherently requires feedback from audience before it is finalized. Be kinder to Trevor Noah
— Natalie Shure (@nataliesurely) March 31, 2015
Guess what, sometimes comics make offensive jokes. But I guess liberal scolding is more important than anything.
— Brian Gaar (@briangaar) March 31, 2015
Why can't the Daily Show just hire a post-gendered vegan humanities professor who has never told a joke in its life
— Brian Gaar (@briangaar) March 31, 2015
Nothing is more boring than this Trevor Noah Twitter backlash.
— Jack Moore (@JackPMoore) March 31, 2015
Also I assume Stewart had some say in his replacement which means Jon Stewart hired Noah TWICE. I trust Jon Stewart’s anti-Semitism detector
— Jack Moore (@JackPMoore) March 31, 2015
@AndrewKirell @anthonyLfisher @mcmoynihan there are comics who are funny irl who aren’t great at twitter. absurd 2 judge him from tweets imo
— andy levy (@andylevy) March 31, 2015
And I leave you with Michael Ian Black summing up the era we live in:
"I'M ANGRY!" – angry people.
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) March 31, 2015
[h/t Salon]
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