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Special Event: Trevor Noah

Sunday, November 13, 2016 @ 1:00 pm

Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd Floor, Room 3210)

300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132 United States

Tickets $40 (includes a copy of Born a Crime)

Trevor Noah is one of the comedy world’s fastest rising stars. Born in Soweto, South Africa, Noah went on to become one of the top stand-up comedians in his country, touring in the United States and internationally as well. After appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Late Show with David Letterman, Noah took on a correspondent role on the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Daily Show with Jon Stewart. When Stuart announced his departure from the show in 2015, Noah was named as his replacement. In Born a Crime, Noah tells his wild coming-of-age-story during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.

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Tickets $40

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Date:: Sunday, November 13, 2016
Time:: 1:00 pm
Cost:: $40

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Trevor Noah is the host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show. He first joined the show as a contributor in 2014 and succeeded Jon Stewart as host in 2015. While The Daily Show has introduced Noah to an American audience, he's long been a popular comedian around the globe. Noah rose to stardom with The Racist, his one-man show at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which became one of the most talked-about shows at the festival that year. He made his US television debut that year on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and has also appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, becoming the first South African stand-up comedian to appear on either late-night program. He was nominated for "Personality of the Year" at the 2014 and 2015 MTV Africa Music Awards and won the award in 2015. In his first book, Born a Crime (Spiegel and Grau), Noah tells his coming of age story with his larger-than-life mother during the last gasps of apartheid-era South Africa and the turbulent years that followed. Noah was born illegal--the son of a white, Dutch father and a black Xhosa mother, who had to pretend to be his nanny or his father's servant in the brief moments when the family came together. His brilliantly eccentric mother loomed over his life--a comically zealous Christian (they went to church six days a week and three times on Sunday), a savvy hustler who kept food on their table during rough times, and an aggressively involved, if often seriously misguided, parent who set Noah on his bumpy path to stardom. Whether he's subsisting on caterpillars during months of extreme poverty or making comically pitiful attempts at teenage romance in a color-obsessed world; whether's he's being thrown into jail as the hapless fall guy for a crime he didn't commit or being thrown by his mother from a speeding car driven by murderous gangsters. Noah provides something deeper than traditional memoirists: powerfully funny observations about how farcical political and social systems play out in our lives.

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Language: English
Occurrence: Annual

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Name:: Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd Floor, Room 3210)
Location:: 300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132 United States
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