You know, we were watching,
so we were watching this story about the
the Toy Hall of Fame,
which is in Rochester,
and we're seeing all the toys
that are being inducted,
and so everyone in the office starts talking
about their favorite toys growing up, right?
So some people are like, "Oh yeah, no, for me
"it was Chutes and Ladders,"
"And for me it was the sled."
It was this, it was that.
And then the people like, "What was your favorite,
"favorite toy growing up?"
And I was like, "Genuinely, my favorite toy growing up
was a brick."
All right?
Sounds crazy.
But, Spinny, why do walk away
like I'm a crazy —
like you literally walk away
like I'm saying the wildest thing.
No, 'cause we, so what happened was,
no, we had, when we were growing up,
I'd live at my Gran's house in Soweto
and then what would happen is,
a lot of kids didn't have toys,
but it wasn't like a sad thing, like,
"Aw, don't have toys," we'd just, we'd play
with whatever we'd find.
And so the most popular thing little boys would play
with was bricks, and your brick was,
you'd play with it like a toy car.
So you'd walk around the neighborhood
searching for the best brick, right?
'Cause the game you would play,
and we didn't put wheels on it or anything.
Someone asked me in the office, "Did you put wheels on?"
No, there's no wheels.
Where were we gonna find wheels?
If we have wheels, we wouldn't have these problems.
So we just took bricks, you would find bricks
and then the game you'd play is you would drive
in the dirt with your brick car
and then you would smash into the other boys' bricks
and then if your brick was the last brick standing,
you won the game.
So all of it, it was like a mission.
You're like, "Man, I gotta find bricks."
You just walk around the whole day
just searching for bricks.
And there's this one brick that we had
called a face brick, all right?
Which was basically just a really beautiful brick
that you can, you know, bricks that you don't plaster over?
Can just have that as the face of your house?
That's what we called a face brick, right?
And so that was like the dream brick.
It was the most expensive brick, though.
You couldn't, you could find,
everyone with, like, gray bricks
and the dark, black bricks and all those bricks break.
You come with a face brick,
everyone would see,
you'd be like a pimp rolling up in a Rolls Royce Phantom.
I remember one day I found the face brick
and I got there and all the kids are like —
I got there like all swag.
And they're like, "Aw, Trevor, are you playing?
"Are you playing?"
I then was like, "Yeah."
I pulled my brick out from behind my back.
And they're like, “Face brick, face brick!"
And it's like, 81 00:02:06,633 --> 00:02:07,466 "Face brick, face brick,"
and was like, "Let's go,"
and then you drive and everyone rams in,
I'll be like, "You guys, ram me first, I'll just,
"I'll just chill."
Everyone tries to ram your brick,
and because the face brick, it's like compact,
it doesn't crack, everyone's bricks crack in half.
People are devastated, like, you see kids smash their bricks
and the brick cracks dead in the middle, like
"The brick did not stop me."
It's like a big thing, and then you'd play
and you'd take the brick,
and it was such a popular thing
that you had to be careful if you lived
in the townships
because kids would steal bricks
from outside your house if you were doing renovations.
So if you weren't careful, you would have,
all your bricks outside 'cause you're like,
"Oh, I'm gonna build a wall."
And then the next day you would come there
and you'd be like, "Where the fuck are my bricks?"
And all the bricks are gone.
And then it's just like kids driving around like —
It's like, "Are those my bricks?"
"I don't know what you're talking about, man.
"This is my favorite toy."
It just makes you realize,
you can just have fun with anything, man.
It was like,
that was genuinely my favorite.
Even now when I see bricks, I get happy.
I've said to friends that's the one thing
I don't like about living in New York.
You don't see bricks often,
just loose bricks hanging around.
You take that for granted.
I walk around and I'm like, "Man, no bricks, no bricks,
no bricks, no bricks."
And if I see a brick, there's a thing in me still,
till this day, that wants to take the brick.
And I have to stop myself and be like,
"You're the host of the Daily Show.
"You can buy all the bricks you want."
And it's like, "Yeah, but take that brick, Trevor,
"come on, you know you want to."
And I always think, "Imagine if TMZ caught me on camera."
And it's like, "Trevor Noah spotted stealing a brick."
And then I'll be trying to explain it.
"No, it's a car. No, it's not--
"Is Trevor Noah on drugs?
"No, wait!
It's so strong.”
"What were you doing, Trevor?”
"I was gonna build my own wall."
That's what — South Africa — you guys,
you should let Donald Trump build the wall
and then just bring all the South African kids overnight.
Overnight.
They'll just,
They'll take--