Trevor Noah, the South African comic who was recently announced as Jon Stewart’s replacement to host the satirical American talk show, The Daily Show, has been supported by his new employers after old, and distinctly unfunny, tweets from years before came to light.
Noah, appropriately enough, made his comment on Twitter, saying that, “to reduce my views to a handful of jokes that didn’t land is not a true reflection of my character, nor my evolution as a comedian.”
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Many journalists have also supported Noah. Caitlin Dewey at The Washington Post wrote: “Six tweets, out of almost 9,000?! That’s not exactly a representative sample.”
Dewey and other writers cited Jon Ronson’s recent, and much-acclaimed book, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed in which Ronson interviewed people whose lives had been ruined by so-called “twitchfork” campaigns online.
Yesterday, Ronson told NPR: “We’re trying to see people’s tweets as like a kind of clue to their inherent evil, even though we know that’s not how human beings actually are.”
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