Trevor Noah

At the 2026 Grammy Awards, Noah joked about Donald Trump's desire to acquire Greenland, adding that Epstein's island was no longer available and that he needed a new island to spend time with Bill Clinton. Trump denounced what he described as a false assertion that he had visited the island and announced his intention to sue Noah.

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While India and Pakistan were exchanging air strikes and the risk of escalation was high, Noah imagined a war between the countries as a Bollywood sequence and used a caricatured accent. Critics accused him of racism and insensitivity towards real deaths.

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An excerpt from a 2013 performance in which Noah made a degrading joke about the appearance of Australian Aboriginal women resurfaced ahead of a tour in Australia. Indigenous public figures called for a boycott.

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Following France's victory at the 2018 World Cup, Noah joked that 'Africa had won', referring to the family origins of many players. French ambassador to the United States Gérard Araud criticised him for denying their full French identity and applying a racial framework foreign to the French republican model.

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Shortly after being announced as Jon Stewart's successor, Noah faced renewed scrutiny of old tweets containing jokes about women, weight, Jewish people and the Holocaust. They prompted accusations of misogyny and antisemitism and debate about his suitability to host The Daily Show.

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