We are back with Trevor Noah.
So do you watch--
And I also saw you talk about on the news
that you can't watch the news that much because it's
too depressing.
You watch in the morning.
You get a little recap at night.
But you must be having to keep up with it for your show.
Yes.
I keep up with information, but I
think people must be careful about what they watch as news.
You know, one thing that is an unfortunate byproduct
of having 24-hour news in America
is always full of the news.
And so I always warn people.
I go like, be careful not to just watch the news
all the time because the news can
make it seem like everything is going wrong.
Because the news' job is to report the things
that are going wrong.
And so whether it's chicken or the egg, or egg or the chicken,
it's either way you're only going to be getting bad news.
So I think you should be careful to ration
how much news you watch.
And so that's what I try and do.
I try to read as much as possible.
I try and ascertain what's actually
happening in the world.
But I think it's good to have perspective.
I think it's good to live in a world of nuance
where we say, yes, something bad can be happening,
but it's not the worst thing, because we're helping it not
become the worst thing.
And hopefully, on the other side of this,
we realize that we're better off because we treated
it seriously as opposed to not taking it seriously, and then
regretting it afterwards.
So that's all I'm trying to do in my world, process the news,
make jokes about it, give it to my audience.
And hopefully, have people a little more informed
and just feeling a little bit better
about what they're watching because it's not all bad news.
Yes.
No, no, it's not.
And what you're doing is really important.
And then I do something that is just ridiculously silly and--
Which is equally important.
Well, yes.
Yes.
For sure.
And I talk to Gavin Newsom.
And I'm talking to people to help
spread the word on some things that are important.
And I know obviously, that's mainly what you do.
So what are your thoughts on Sanders dropping out
and endorsing Biden?
I think it's great to see the Democrats moving together
in unison.
I was really happy to see that.
And I was also really happy to see Biden specifically
say, hey, we're going to be engaging Bernie's policies.
I'm going to look at what we can do
to bring in more of his people.
Because I think it's important for leaders to realize
you're not just the leader of the people who voted for you.
You're the leader of everyone that you end up leading.
And so in many ways, I think of it like being a parent.
You have your kids, and then when your kid has a birthday
party, there's all these other kids
who want to come to your house.
And they're not your kids, but you
should treat them with the same love
and respect that you would your kids because they're
in your house.
And I think that's what a president is doing.
You have all these kids in your house,
and hopefully you're giving them the best love
and care that they need.
You should know Ellen doesn't allow kids in her house.
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That's why I'm not a politician or a parent.
I don't want them.
I've never been happier because I'm
hearing all these parents go, oh my, God.
I'm home schooling, and I don't know anything about--
they were just counting on the teachers to teach their kids,
and now they have to learn how to teach their kids at home.
And I can't even imagine anything harder
than having to teach--
Yes, and if anybody deserves more money, it's--
I think those are two professions
that we're learning to appreciate now more than ever.
It's teachers, and it's people who
work in jobs that people haven't considered essential,
and yet now are.
You know, people who work in grocery stores, people who work
on farms producing our food.
We couldn't stay at home if it weren't for them.
And so once we have these conversations again
about how much people should get paid as a minimum wage,
and once we have conversations again
about teachers getting paid, I hope
every parent remembers this moment in time when
their kids go back to school.
No, I absolutely think everybody feels the same way.
That it's going to be all these people that you really
underappreciated.
Trevor, you call yourself a Cuomosexual,
and I agree with you.
I feel like I'm a Cuomosexual too.
Yes, I think it's been really--
it genuinely has been very inspiring and refreshing to see
a leader like Cuomo.
Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York
who's come out and engaged his briefings
in a nonpolitical way.
He's engaged them as a leader.
He's engaged them as a human being.
He's also taken the blame for things where he says, look,
I understand that I'm doing certain things that people
are going to hate me for, and I'm
willing to make these decisions because I think it's the best
thing for human life first.
We can always create business afterwards.
I think he's been informative.
I think he's been informed.
And once I saw people online falling in love with him--
there's a group of women who came out
and they said we're falling in love with Cuomo.
And I said, well, yeah.
Everyone should be a Cuomosexual in that way.
You should love a leader who engages the people,
and remembers that they're serving the people, as opposed
to the people working for them.
So any leader who's doing that in a crisis, I applaud them.
The bar for leaders these days is very low.
We just want someone to tell us the truth.
That's all we're asking.
Just tell us the truth.
And if you do that, you're a great leader.
Well, he's exceptional though.
I mean, I think that Governor Cuomo, and Chris his brother,
God bless him.
I love him so much.
I think everyone is just falling in love
with people who are doing their jobs the way they should right
now.
People are falling in love with governors,
whether it's Newsome, whether it's Cuomo.
People are falling in love with Dr. Fauci.
He's just a doctor who's doing his thing.
People try and make it seem like he has an agenda.
He wants this.
He wants that.
No, he's a doctor.
He gives you the information, and the leaders
do with the information as they please.
And I think it's exciting to see people wanting
to just do their jobs well.
That's a really cool thing to see.
Yes.
I love talking to you, and I miss you,
and I will see you whenever we get to see each other again.
Stay safe.
The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11:00 on Comedy Central.
Thank you so much, Trevor.
Thank you so much for having me.
And stay safe out there, Andy.
Please don't break any more plants.
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Thank you, Trevor.
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