{"id":111699,"date":"2016-02-08T10:22:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T08:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=111699"},"modified":"2016-02-08T10:23:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T08:23:49","slug":"watch-trevor-noah-talks-racial-double-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/111699\/watch-trevor-noah-talks-racial-double-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Trevor Noah talks racial double standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African comedian Trevor Noah waded into the politics of professional sport in America ahead of Super Bowl 50, which was played on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The host of the Daily Show inferred racial double standards when it came to the media&#8217;s portrayal of the opposing\u00a0two quarterbacks: Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers and Peyton Manning of the Denver Bronco.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let\u2019s face it, people, we all know what\u2019s really going on here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is about race. And you know what I love about all the race conversations in society? People always say it\u2019s not about race,\u201d Noah said.<\/p>\n<p>Noah joked that he has been following football for a long time, adding&#8230;&#8221;and I\u2019ve also been following what Americans call football for quite a while now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month Slate.com published an article titled Why Are Americans Ignoring Trevor Noah?<\/p>\n<p>The article looked at the South African\u2019s influence on The Daily Show since taking over from John Stewart, in September last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNoah\u2019s Daily Show has been attracting fewer than 1 million viewers in the all-important 18-49 demo, down more than 30% compared with Stewart\u2019s last quarter,\u201d read the report.<\/p>\n<p>This follows reports in November 2015 that the US ratings for The Daily Show had dropped drastically since Noah took over.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uCt6VZrKGsM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Denver Broncos upset the Carolina Panthers 24-10 to\u00a0win Super Bowl 50.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Trevor Noah<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/103899\/watch-how-trevor-noah-almost-got-deported-from-america\/\">Watch: How Trevor Noah almost got deported from America <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/100092\/watch-trevor-noah-targets-zuma-on-the-daily-show\/\">Watch: Trevor Noah targets Zuma on The Daily Show<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/99622\/watch-trevor-noahs-new-daily-show-debut\/\">Watch: Trevor Noah\u2019s new Daily Show debut<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African comedian Trevor Noah waded into the politics of professional sport in America ahead of Super Bowl 50, which was played on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":84223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[26,9691],"class_list":["post-111699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-headline","tag-trevor-noah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111699"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111711,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111699\/revisions\/111711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}