have a different kind of show tonight. you see, a while ago the global citizens festival came to me and said that they are hosting a concert in my home country south africa. that's what's behind me. ( cheering ) in honor of nelson mandela's 100th birthday and they wanted to know if i could host the concert. i said, no, i'm not flying 16 hours to south africa for a concert for a guy who's dead. they were, like, oh, okay, thanks. beyonce was coming so he'd hope you'd come. then i said, i cannot wait to host the festival and celebrate the mandela birth day, whatever you said. so i thought i would show you all where i'm from so you can see the south africa i know and i can deduct the trip as a business expense. so hope you enjoy. ( cheers and applause ) >> december 3, 2018.

from south africa, a special episode of "the daily show" from south africa, self-deportation edition. >> trevor: i flew out to south africa friday morning. 14 hours later i landed in my hometown johannesburg. the minute i got off the plane, i felt a voice inside reminding me of what i had forgotten. so this is a road i used to drive on pretty much my entire young life. because of apartheid, black people had to live in certain areas, and white people had to live in other areas, but white people like how the black people cook, so they need them to come to their houses. so there were roads that connected the areas, and there was one of those roads. all the taxies, the buses all the transport that shifted the people between soweto and johannesburg, this is it. ( shouted ) that's what we do in south

africa. we don't have road rage. we have road joy, we just smile and honk. it was very confusing to me when i first got to new york. i thought everyone was my friend. they were not. so we're headed to my grandmother's house. i told her wie r we were on the way. that doesn't mean she will be there. so i don't know, you might meet my grandmother. you might not. ( speaking sout foreign languag) welcome to soweto. this is h where i grew up. this is where everything goes down. we walked and played in the streets. this is the playground where you hung out with your friends and everything went down ( shouting ) and your neighbors scream when you walk by. we all do. what's amazing is nothing's changed, in a good way. it's like a museum, that's what it is. and we're here at my grandmother's house. welcome to it.

s in where i grew up. this wall was a lot taller when i was younger, but let's see if she's here. so this is where i grew up. this was the driveway. we kick it off with the driveway. ♪ this is where we used to want to park our cars. we didn't have any cars but we still built driveways because that's what life is all about, ambition. i'll show you some of the security features that i installed in the house. we've got what's known as an intrude deer fence mechanism system of glass. every single one of these bottles, i drank what was inside. this is where the magic happens. anybody can have a toilet inside the house, but it takes a real baller to have a toll et outside the house. now if you guys will excuse me, i'm about to make some magic

happen. mtv cribs, your boy. oh, wait, there's no toilet paper. hold on. ♪ first things first. whenever you come into an african person's house, you greet. so the first thing i'm going to do is greet. cocoa. cocoa. hello, cocoa. >> (answering ). >> how are you? can we come in? i've got some camera people. are we fine to come in? if you say no, it's fine. >> no, they can come in! >> trevor: okay, okay. cocoa, i want to welcome you to my show, and i want to introduce you to some of my friends and my viewers. i've brought them to south africa to show them what it's like. so they said, because i'm coming, they want to meet you and they want me to ask you questions about my life.

>> you are one of my grandchildren. i always look at that photograph in there. >> trevor: i remember. >> trevor: how old are you now, 91? >> 91 and nine months. >> trevor: you get to 91, you count months. >> 91 years, nine months. >> trevor: we're here because the concert at the stadium is celebrating 100 years of nelson mandela. >> mattie ba. >> trevor: m matiba. what's the first thing you remember? people had not seen a black man who was an attorney. >> we were not allowed! >> trevor: wow. >> nothing.

>> nothing. teaching, policemen for a black man. that's all. it was a wonder even for matiba. >> trevor: for young people, it's hard to understand how scary it was to be a black person living in south africa at the time. everyone was afraid of the police. >> firing squads. they knock at 3:00 a.m. >> trevor: dress up, let's go. >> yeah. >> they were so tall, all of them. >> trevor: when you see white guys like that, do they remind you of the police? >> yeah. >> trevor: that's what you remind my grandmother. i hope you're happy, bringing membermembers of the firing squo my house. some people say because some people don't have jobs and it's tough in south africa it would be better to go back to

apartheid. >> no, no thank you. it wouldn't be better. >> trevor: why not? >> oh, no, trevor. >> trevor: do you know what it's like to dig for potatoes p your hands? >> on the farms, no pay. and these people working here dies. then they still plant potatoes. >> trevor: you're digging potatoes with your hands. if someone dies with exhaustion, you big a hole, put them in the hole and carry on digging potatoes. what was my contribution? was i fighting apartheid? >> not knowing. >> trevor: not knowing? >> you were a kid. how could you fight apartheid? >> trevor: but i told them

that i was an apartheid hero, cocoa. i wasn't? ( laughter ) >> when you were with me here, oh, trevor, you gave me a tough time. >> trevor: why did i give you a time? >> because you wanted to play the streets and i knew the police would have taken you. >> trevor: if i was playing in the streets, the police would have arrested me? >> yes. there are kids who never knew what it was to be white. >> trevor: so they thought it was white. >> they knew you were white. ( shouting ) >> trevor: the kids ran away from me? >> they did. >> trevor: for them, this was white? >> yeah. >> trevor: wow. i feel so special now, cocoa. do you know there was a time when i was white. ( laughter ) how old was i when this was

happening? >> three years old. >> trevor: i was a very good looking baby, i'm sure. >> and you could get really naughty. >> trevor: mostly good looking. what did you do when i was naughty? >> those bums, they know my slippers. >> trevor: who was naughtier, me or my mom? >> you both. you never could tell patricia what to do. no. she did what she wanted to do, and she was good at her work. >> trevor: you know how mom is. >> yeah, yeah. she takes no defeat. instead of defeat, like challenging the wrong person. >> trevor: so she was not only a black person in a job black people weren't supposed to be in, but she was a manager of

white people. >> right. >> trevor: but how did they allow that? >> how do i know, trevor? >> trevor: and now i'm also a manager of white people. unbelievable. >> it comes from your mother. >> trevor: it comes from my mother. do you know i'm a manager of white people? >> you don't say. >> trevor: i'm telling you. the white people who work for me. >> it's a pity because i don't even wish to see where you stay. ( laughter ) fly over the city like this? no, not for me. >> trevor: have you ever watched "the daily show"? >> no, trevor. ( speaking foreign language )

>> trevor: my grand says she doesn't watch my show because sometimes the electricity cuts out. which is a very plausible excuse and a nice way to let your grandson down. >> no, it's not letting my grandson down. ( laughter ) we had no electricity. >> trevor: no, i hear you. i didn't expect that answer. it's a good answer. so i must make sure that you have a generator so you can watch my show. >> oh! and who will fix the generator? >> trevor: who will fix the generator? so i must get someone to fix the generator, also. >> i think so. >> trevor: okay. ( speaking in foreign language ) >> trevor: then i must also fix the cable. i feel like i have been tricked into doing a lot of things for you to watch my tv show. ( laughter )

>> trevor: thank you for having us, and thank you for letting me bring these cameras and thank you for sharing these stories with my friends and thank you for being amazing. >> you've brought too many friends >> trevor: you guys must leave now. we'll be right back.

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still fresh... ♪ unstopables in-wash scent booster ♪ downy unstopables "the daily show." if you're just joining us, i was in south africa this weekend for the global citizens festival and so i could give you a look at my home country. here's more. every time i come back to so soweto, i'm reminded again about why this place is so special. it's a melting pot of ideas. it was the home of the political movement, the freedom fighters, the food, music, people, cultures. it was a place created in an

attempt t to oppress the peoplen south africa and they would go on to define south africa and its freedom. ( speaking foreign language ) >> so this right here is one of my favorite meals ever. it's a quarter loaf of bread with chips and then we have an egg, baloney, a frank furlter and we have cheese. not approved by weight watchers. >> one-twenty. >> one-twenty. >> one-twenty. >> the best thing about buying food in south africa is you get to negotiate the price. imagine if you could go to mcdonald's and say, i'll give you $2 for that. oh, yes. oh, yeah! so this was fun.

so we're off to global citizens now. going to get ready for the show. i wonder if beyonce needs me to do backup. >> tens of thousands of fans packed the stadium in johannesburg. >> the global citizens festival. >> hosted by trevor noah. >> to raise awareness about poverty while also honoring south africa's anti-apartheid icon. >> please welcome your host for the global citizens festival mandela 100, trevor noah! >> what's going to on! ( cheers and applause ) oh, man, i'm so humble, guys. i'm so humbled. thank you so much for coming out. you know in one of his final speeches m matifa said, povertys manmade and it can be overcome

and eradicated by the actions of human beings. ( cheers and applause ) he's in all of us! when it comes to natural resources, africa is the richest place on earth. we've got gold, we've got oil, we've got diamonds, and the one thing we definitely have more than any other place in the world is ass. ( laughter ) we have more booty than any other continent on the planet! ( cheers and applause ) men and women! look at this one right here! look at this! ( cheers and applause ) i just want to say thank you for everything you've given me, guys. ( cheers and applause ) i wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world. i wouldn't want to go into the world without being on your guys' shoulders. thank you for what you've given me! i love you guys! ( speaking foreign language )

we're coming back, baby! this is us! stay piewnd, we've got more from south africa. we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause )

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welcome to marwen. the only way you're going to get better, is if you face those jerks who beat you up. i'm not really sure how to do this. we got your back. we always have your back. i have my art and i have my friends. i have hope and that's something they can't take away from me. hell yeah. ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: welcome back. while i was hosting the global citizens festival in south africa, i found some time to sit

down with one of the best artists of our generation. so here's my conversation with usher. usher, welcome home. >> hey! >> trevor: welcome to my home. good to see you back again. you have been to south africa more than most american artistest have. >> yeah. >> trevor: does the country have a special place for you? >> omigod! i mean, africa in itself has a special place for any person who's trying to identify the reality we all come from here but don't necessarily know which part of it we come from. >> trevor: right, right, right. >> so each time i'm here, i always try to go back, introduce myself to new culture, new polices, meet new people, find new things. i feel at home, not just i'm in africa, but with global citizens. >> trevor: you have been with global citizens for longer than most have, you have been an ambassador for a long time, you have been a part of what they're doing in and around the globe. a lot of people don't know usher has been involved in all of the projects you have been involved in. how did you get involved with

global citizens? what connected with you? >> i always felt like i was a global citizen before i knew it was about and the idea of utilizing what you have as an entertainer and an opportunity to vie or either advocate for people who don't necessarily have what they need, that's always been a part of who i am. it became a part of who i am or was as a result of hanging out with quince withy jones. you know, it's enough to sell records and, you know, be well-renowned and have people sing your songs, but what do you do and offer that helps other people? what philanthropic efforts do you have? i started my new look foundation and, obviously, years later, people like this organization and hugh evans reached out to me and wanted me to be a part of an amazing event. >> trevor: i knew of usher, you know, the singer, i knew of usher the performer, but didn't know of usher, the person trying to build a community. tell me about the new look foundation. it has a very specific cause, a

very specific target and you have been successfully achieving that. >> yeah, well, success is relative. the idea is obviously 501c3s don't function by themselves so a lot of people are donating and also to show support for what we're doing and greater. but the efforts of being able to give kids real opportunity is where it likely starts for me. that's one to have the things that makes me who i am. somebody believed in me. somebody gave me an opportunity to let me know there was more in my environment wait for me. that's what the new look foundation represents. >> global citizens is a concert, movement, action, about engaging people and it's about the entertainment. it's a beautiful imine thighs of all these things. you came through to south africa, and, kneeled, the country was set alight by the fact that usher was going to be performing with black coughy. >> yeah. >> now, as a south african i know -- i mean, everyone was excited by. this why was that important to you? who is black coffee to you?

what made this spark turn into a flame? >> out of all the times i've come, i wanted to do something authentic for this region and i have to like black coffee is that. out of all the african performances who would be a part of this collaborative effort, i wanted him to be a parted of this amazing moment, and it really was set with the intentions of not only celebrating what we're doing with global citizens, which, obviously, you know this is very elaborate, but i felt like this was an opportunity to just start with something new. we're going to work on music for the album, but this will be an amazing kickoff and the intention is to set the spirit in a right direction. >> trevor: the "a." >> that was a warm up. >> that's just a warm up? >> the album is not here yet. >> trevor: so that's just a warmup collection of songs that have been put together to warm us up for the album? >> there you go. >> trevor: a, atlanta. you call that home.

what is this a for you? >> this a for me was just a reconnection, you know, it's what i felt. it's the music i'm listening to, it's the vibe of where we are. and working with zaytoven was just an opportunity to just bring atlanta back into perspective. you think the majority of what i have been doing with jermaine dupri or lil' jon or any of the producers from atlanta, the energy's in that. so i wanted that energy on this record. >> trevor: thank you for being here. i won't keep you much longer. i know we've all got to go rehearse. welcome back to south africa. >> i always love being here. >> trevor: i'll see you in the streets tonight. >> you hanging here? >> trevor: i'm home, do humans like overpaying with verizon? don't they know they can get the 3rd, 4th and 5th lines free with sprint? (paul) yeah that means sprint's unlimited plan gives you 5 lines for just $20 per month, per line. (mom) really? (atlas) yes and you can save more than $1,000 over verizon and at&t with sprint. (mom) no way! (dad) robots don't lie.

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( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: that's our show. thank you to global citizens. it was great to be back in south africa. now here it is... your moment of zen. cocoa. hello, cocoa. >> hey! >> trevor: dave chappelle. >> yeah, man. >> trevor: what are you doing here?

>> trevor, i have been living here since 2004. >> trevor: cocoa -- >> hi. >> good morning. can i help you? >> yes, i'm from techstar about a new phone system for you. i was wondering if i could talk to michael scott. >> i'm sorry. he's not in right now. >> really? he's never around when i come by. >> shoot. they have new phone systems now that can ring directly to a salesman, or someone presses star and they go to accounting. basically, 95% of my job. but i'd like to see a machine that puts out candy for everyone. vending machine. >> how about i make an appointment to come back? that way i know he'll be here. >> that is a great idea. >> great. >> um... oh, boy. let's see, he's really...