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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
This is an interesting point that I hadn't really thought about. Leaving aside the whole tweet-thing, it's interesting to wonder whether South African audiences have a taste for humor that doesn't go so well here, or alternately that gives someone who started there a really interesting and different spin and flavor here. Or that influenced his early comedy but no longer does, at least not so strongly.
I have no idea (though the Chris Rock show in SA certainly translated well).
I'm not making my point very clearly (wayyyyy too much to drink last night), but imagine if Stewart had selected a French comedian and we were now all wondering why the prospective DS host had posted a bunch of videos of himself doing mime on YouTube.
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People, people, people. The guy built his brand on intelligent, political and race-observational humor. Dude speaks six languages (see clip below where he talks about his Hitler-like German). He threw out a few crass jokes on twitter years ago. He is successful in South Africa for the exact same reasons he has become successful here.
With Kamau Bell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjMzYGtWS3s
Here he is in 2009 (I think):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcyuIKzpYJQ
2014 in London:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF7Nxoy-1tI
eta: I just found this NYT piece on him as well:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/ar...=1419773522000
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