{"id":104336,"date":"2015-04-01T07:29:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T07:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=104336"},"modified":"2015-04-01T07:29:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T07:29:04","slug":"trevor-noah-fans-rally-after-backlash-over-old-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/04\/trevor-noah-fans-rally-after-backlash-over-old-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"Trevor Noah: Fans rally after backlash over old jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"
Within 24 hours, as writer Dave Weigel noted, new Daily Show host Trevor Noah went from “progressive icon to villain”.<\/p>\n
The cause? A social media record that showed Noah cracking jokes that many found in poor taste – and worse, unfunny.<\/p>\n
The tweets made jokes at the expense of fat women, Jews and Asians. They resulted in a slew of articles second-guessing the choice of Noah, a 31-year old South African, to take over Jon Stewart’s role on the beloved Comedy Central programme.<\/p>\n
“The problem is not that Trevor Noah tells offensive jokes. It’s not even that he routinely breaks The Daily Show’s covenant of speaking truth to power in favour of speaking truth to fat chicks or Thai hookers or, as the Washington Post’s Wendy Todd points out, black Americans who give their kids names that Noah disapproves of. The problem is that Noah’s jokes are so annihilatingly stupid,” wrote Jessica Winter in Slate.<\/p>\n
But while the mainstream media was focused on Noah’s flaws, Twitter was mostly on his side.<\/p>\n