Trevor Noah Makes My Brain Hurt

Team Simon here! While A Bit of Optimism is on a short break, we’re revisiting a few episodes you helped make some of our favorites. We’ll be back with brand-new conversations next week, on March 24th, 2026. In the meantime, we’re bringing back an episode that explores a word mos ...  Show more

Hello from Team Simon! We’re taking a short hiatus, but A Bit of Optimism will return with brand-new episodes March 24th. In the meantime, we’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes. Episodes that many of you who listened, shared them, and told us what resonated. This week, w ...  Show more

Finally, we’re diving into former Daily Show host Trevor Noah’s hella acclaimed and hella requested story. If you’re here to find out how he became one of the biggest comedians in the world, wait for the next book but if you’re wondering where exactly he came from and you were ed ...  Show more

From being 'born a crime' and surviving Apartheid to navigating fame, Trevor Noah opens up about the chaos behind the comedy   Trevor Noah is a comedian and former host of the satirical news programme, ‘The Daily Show’. He is also host of the podcast ‘What Now? with Trevor Noah’ ...  Show more

Comedian, writer, producer, actor, and television host of The Daily Show Trevor Noah debuts to share an important part of his childhood and how that time catalyzed his becoming the star he is today.  Source: Trevor Noah: “On the first night I thought, ‘What if I’m the Piers Morga ...  Show more

Nathan Jaiyeola is a stand-up comedian living in Vietnam.

Eight years ago I found myself at Temple University in Philadelphia taking a class called Comedy Workshop. The course fell under my Broadcast Telecommunications degree. Yes, t ...