our first guest tonight is a very bright and funny man who did seven years behind the desk at The Daily Show he is also a bestselling author who has a new book for kids it's called into the uncut grass please welcome Trevor [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Noah welcome you look well how are you I could not be better first of all can I just say thank you Jimmy waited for me outside on the sidewalk welcomed me in I was hoping you'd flip me a shiny nickel on my way special that was special Jimmy that was great
I do it for all the guests uh yeah isn't that strange have you ever uh did you go and talk to the guests before they would come into the Daily Show yeah yeah yeah but I mean not in the streets I mean nobody I do think that would be a fun thing to do though is just wait out in the street imagine just imagine what it would be like right you're coming to Jimmy Kimmel and then like in the street you see a man who looks like Jimmy Kimmel like waving at you in your car
you should do that it would be like if you went to Disneyland and you entered the parking lot and Mickey was working the booth right a little weird yeah yeah I don't know why he he's sticking with that story though at least the LI is consistent in that case did you ever have Trump on the show no no no we never did we never did he did say some bad things about you on I don't know I don't I don't keep up with it yeah I do I keep up with it yeah yeah but you
you have like a feud with him you have like a real so here's what here's what I've noticed like Trump's um annoyance at people is directly proportional to how big they were when he like focused on the media does that make sense I see yeah right so like Time Magazine is still the biggest thing in his life and then obviously Jimmy Kimmel SNL if they insult him he gets really angry about it I'm so new to him that he's just like that that guy you know what I mean I have a little extra something with
him because he used to really like me I'm not sure exactly why and I broke his little heart somehow I think that he's you realize you could rekindle a friendship and change this country oh yeah no well I don't think it would change the country I I know I could rekindle the friendship with one compliment that would be all it takes and that's why he's such a terrible choice for president because you can turn him around with a simple comment I mean he loves people he hated five minutes ago one hug Jimmy one hug one
hug right around one hug you just go in there one hug you change the world how are you doing since you left the show are you experiencing feelings of uh depression anxiety hopelessness is it uh I you know what I'm I'm good I I miss I miss the vibe you know like I mean like days like today obviously you know you watch Trump at a rally and he's dancing for 40 minutes I missed that you miss out yeah um yeah because that's just free content that's like one of those things you go like wow but
for the most part no I I I'm I'm traveling more I'm enjoying being on the road I get time to write books try other things I'm I'm having a good time yeah I'm going to talk about your book cuz I read to my kids last night and I want to give you their review on it but um yes but um as far as the road goes you like that because I would think one of the nice things about what about doing The Daily Show was you got to do jokes but you get to go to
the same office every single day yeah yeah it's good but but there's something about there's something about traveling you know and and discovering a new thing and seeing something different and a and then also the IR I like being irritated by everyday things mhm I know this is a strange thing but I I actually love like for instance like just people on a plane I still don't understand why they stand up before the doors are open it's maddening no I like I but I love it I get angry at it but I love it but
I like sit there you love it yeah I don't know I don't know how to you know when you like it's like hate watching something but I do it in real life with people uh so I'll be sitting my favorite is if I'm on the aisle then they try and stand and then they look at me and then I just sit there looking at them and they're in like a like a position and I just sit there and then but they want to say like hey are you going to get out and then I go
like oh no the doors are not the doors are not open and's in a rush to get in a certain spot yes to why why why Jimmy doors are not open it's a great question you just rush and then you just stand do you find that that is uh more prevalent in the United States than it is in other countries it it's it's the same in most countries only place where I didn't find that was in Japan oh yes in Japan in Japan every everything works the way it's supposed to work like Japan's gift is
its curse everything works everything is precise but then it also means that people don't connect in the same way like in America it's like yeah it's a little bit crazy it has a Vibe it's you know what I mean but like you might bump into Jimmy Kimmel on the sidewalk it's that kind of vibe it's just like you know I I I appreciate that I think every country you know you're furthering this this sidewalk lie about man this is how things get started this is this is how you keep things going that's what I want
to do now keep things going the first time you were here was 2015 the Mets were in the World Series I've seen you go to some of the Mets games are you watching the playoffs right now Mets and the Dodgers no no you're not you've abandoned us completely what do you mean abandoned I the first and only time I went to a Mets game was because Jerry Seinfeld invited me in in in fact invited is the wrong thing he sort of kidnapped me so Jerry invited me to do Comedians and cause right and so he
picks you up and you're in the car and then he drives you around and then we drove around and I think we drove around for longer than he planned and then he was like ah the Mets game is on and he's like we're going to the Mets game and I was like okay I guess cuz what are you going to say no Jerry I was like yeah we're going to the Mets game and then we're at a Mets game you know what I mean and then Larry David's there and then Jerry's there and then I'm
there and they like they're like explaining baseball to me people like Trevor's a fan I'm like no I'm like where are these people going what's happening here I don't know anything about baseball oh so you don't care at all no why do you make it negative I don't know anything about it you you want the headlight Trevor no doesn't care about baseball no I just I don't understand it okay I'll put it this way you care about everything else more than you care about that is that positive enough Trevor Noah is here everybody his book
is called into the uncut grass we'll be right back about the Trevor Noah this is his book it's for your kids it's called into the uncut grass and I read it to my children Jan and pH know what they thought they they enjoyed the book I'm going to give you a couple of a little bit of feedback from my daughter I'm completely in so there's two characters in the book there's a teddy bear and the boy so there's Walter and the boy Walter's the teddy bear the boy is just the boy my daughter nine times
what's the boy's name she wants to know what the boy's name is that's but that's what I love about the story is you don't have to have a name it's not about that and I think it's it's stranger and it pulls you in because you don't know the boy's name do you know what I mean the Bear's Walter and then it's just like the boy I told her the boy's name was Trevor cuz I was sick of hearing her say that it was the boy's name so is the boy you I love the idea of
you getting angry reading children's books with your kids just like oh the boy's name is Trevor move on have a good night sweetie there's a very good deal of yelling that goes into every night of reading yes is sit down stop moving around do you want me to read this I'll stop reading this this is them to you or you to them no this is me to them oh okay um but um uh very sweet book and reminded me is is the kid based on you at all because so okay so so what happened was
I wanted to write a book I know this is very it's it's it's a lofty idea but I wanted to write a book about conflict resolution and then I was like you you can go like the whole academic approach and you can sit down with experts and you can but I was like but conflict resolution fundamentally starts when we're children right so how do you resolve conflict how do you deal with conflict in your life a lot of that is formed by your relationship with your parents you know they teach you how to fight they
teach you how to make up they teach you how to see an argument and yourself in it and so I wanted to write a book that was about that but in like the simplest way not make it complicated not make it like about like a a hard issue it's a boy who doesn't want to make his bed because it's a Saturday he decides to run away from home and then in the uncut grass he meets all these magical characters that help him reckon with the idea of conflict with the idea of the bed and his
mom I'm now seeing the irony and me yelling at the children during the walk about conflict resolution that had really dawned on me until just now okay so one of the strategies that the snails have in the book is when they disagree on something I like this snail wants to go on this path with the grass and this snail wants to go on the shorter path with the Rocks they do each other's ideas so the snail you know what I'm saying and then they and then at the end so that's an interesting strategy well because
so here's the thing so one one of the things we take for granted at times is we think that we are right until we are wrong yes everybody I I don't know anybody who argues thinking that they are wrong everyone's like I'm right I'm right I'm right I'm right and then you discover that you're wrong and then because you've tied yourself to the idea that you had you now can't let it go and we see this with everything we see it with politics we see it in relationships we see it with friendships like people go
well I still think that and it's like you were wrong but now you don't want to let go of the wrongness because it's tied to you and so in that story really what's happening is the snail are going I'll try it your way you try it my way and let's see what we discover on that Journey because there may be things that I discover about your way of seeing the world or your way of doing something that might inform me differently does that make sense it's not even about like right or wrong it's just about
like can you try it from my perspective it makes a lot of sense but it also makes it very clear to me that you do not have children specifically a boy and a girl can I tell you actually it's funny you say that can I tell you one of the best reviews I got was from so I love it I love that kids Give me the reviews like adults will like intellectualize things kids are honest and one of the best things the kid said to me about the book was they said they said they said
Mr Trevor can I tell you I really enjoyed the book it was fantastic and goes like but you you know what I also realize with you is that like you you made me realize that parents that don't have kids are really the best kinds of parents and I was like me he's like yeah you're a cool parent I was like Oh you mean adults he's like it's the same thing and you you are right I think I think I I am a little more chill with young people and the book kind of about a kid
who doesn't want to have a parent at least part of the book are you are you a kid who like well are you an adult who makes your bed that's a so okay so here's the thing I whether you make your bed or not is almost irrelevant to me what I do have I have a problem I have a problem I I already know what kind of person you are I I have a problem with people especially bed makers who believe that is the only way to live and they look down upon the non-bed makers
and they be like how can you start your day it's very easy to start your day like that you get out of the bed and you leave and and a lot of people don't realize this your bed needs to breathe you can sweat almost a cup of sweat during the night at least you're just like covering the bed up no I'm on your side I'm a non bed oh yeah my man okay good do your kids make the bed you see that's the best way to to resolve a conflict is um you do it your
way and I also do it your way which happens to be my way as well and we have a very messy bed together Trevor Noah everybody this is the book it's called into the uncut brass we'll be back with Senator Reverend rapael warno [Applause]
