Daily Show’s Trevor Noah reveals honest opinion of Dave Chappelle

Trevor Noah made a recent appearance on 60 Minutes this week in an outspoken and honest interview on his personal life and career so far. The Daily Show host was pressed on his love life, the early beginnings of his Comedy Central show and comic, Dave Chappelle.

Reporter Lesley Stahl asked Noah for his take on Dave Chappelle’s recent allegations of transphobic and homophobic comments in a recent Netflix stand-up special.

“Did Dave Chappelle cross the line? Yes, no. It immediately puts me in a position where I have to choose a side when I think that the matter is a lot more complex than that,” Noah admitted.

“I think everybody is defining the line for themselves.”

Dave Chappelle faced waves of backlash for his special released late last year particularly on his comments on the LGBTQ community. It seems Chappelle has consistently found the golden ticket to stirring up controversy in any attempt at edgy humour in recent years, failing to captivate a nation which once saw him as a world class talent.

“But America is clearly divided in that half of society has gone like, ‘No, Dave Chappelle, we love what you said. We’re sick of wokeness. We’re sick of people being told what to say. We’re sick of not knowing how to use the right pronoun. You’re right, Dave Chappelle,’ the host continued.

Trevor Noah on Dave Chappelle controversy: “There is no line”

“So then if half of society is saying Dave Chappelle is right and half of society is saying that he’s wrong, then that means there is no line. It means society is seeing the line from two different sides.”

Despite Noah’s impartiality on the issue, it seems the two comics have been close companions in the past. In 2015, the Comedy Central host tweeted a picture of the two heading for lunch in Washington D.C.

It’s never an easy game defending a fellow comic.

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