Dave Chappelle ripped off ,Trevor Noah stole “Nigger” joke



After getting off to a rocky start with the blogosphere for shitty jokes he tweeted several years ago, Trevor Noah has actually been doing a decent job as Jon Stewart’s replacement at The Daily Show. At least, that’s what I think from the 1.5 episodes I’ve seen. So it’s a shame that his career will probably take a hit from a fresh accusation of joke thievery.

As first mentioned by The Hollywood Reporter, Noah told a joke about racism during a short stand-up set at LA’s Politcon Saturday. Via THR (I’ve bolded the parts that seem super stolen):

Before I came to America, I thought I knew all kinds of racism. I’ve always considered myself something of a racism connoisseur. I appreciate the finer racism. Not to say I appreciate all racism, but a finer racism. Before I came here, blatant racism was my favorite. Blatant racism, where you know exactly where you stand, often perpetrated by old people, which I have always appreciated. They’ll just tell it to you like it is. “This is what I think about you!” Yeah, you’re going to die soon. Charming racism in America changed my life. I discovered it in a place called Lexington, Kentucky. Probably one of the most wonderful places I’ve ever been— charming, friendly people. Racism with a smile and a tip of the hat. I was walking through the streets, a man walked up to me, didn’t know me from a bar of soap, came straight up to me and looked me dead in the eye and he was like, “Good afternoon, nigger.” “Good afternoon.” I’ve never seen racism with a smile. I didn’t know what to do. He just said it like it was a fact. As if I fought him, he would have been like, “What, didn’t you know?”

This was a good bit, and everyone laughed.

Unfortunately, it was also extremely similar to a joke told by Dave Chappelle back in 1998:

Traveling has made me a racism connoisseur, if you will. You know, it’s different region to region. Anyone ever been down South? So you guys know what I’m talking about. The racism down there is just fucking (bon appetit gesture) — it’s perfect. Stewed to a perfection. It’s conformable. It’s out in the open. There are no secrets in Mississippi. Everybody knows the deal. ‘Morning, nigger!’ ‘Morning, sir!’ Not up here. Here in the big cities, it’s a secret. And we should be like them. We should keep our shit out in the open and vent a little — I mean with limits. You don’t want to say whatever comes to your mind, that might be a little much. White dude be walking down the street minding his business and a brother walk up to him: ‘Hello, you white oppressor, you slave-master rapist of Africa.’ ‘Why hello, my big-lips, spear-chucking friend.’ “

Did Noah rip Chappelle off on purpose, or did he hear the joke, absorb it, and then re-write it incorporating his own experiences, sincerely believing it was original?

Given what a rightfully huge taboo joke-stealing is in the comedy community, it’s more than likely the latter. Who’d be dumb enough to steal from someone as well known as Chappelle? However, it does bear mentioning that this isn’t the first time Noah’s been called out for alleged thievery. Back in April, comedian Russell Peters accused him of stealing jokes before walking it back and claiming that had been a joke, although it really didn’t seem like one at the time.

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23 thoughts on “Dave Chappelle ripped off ,Trevor Noah stole “Nigger” joke

  1. Trevor Noah is a bitch!!!! He needs to shut his damn mouth and haul ass from this country if he’s got so much shit to say about it every day on his bullshit show as you can see I’m sick of this punk!

  2. So…they both noticed the same thing in the south? I didn't hear Chappelle talking about a Mumford & Sons concert going on in anybody's mouth…

    Did it occur to anybody that this actually happened to two people who happened to be comedians?

  3. 1998??? Trevor Noah was 14 years old in 1998, living in the aftermath of Apartheid in South Africa. How could he have even heard the joke then that Dave Chappelle made back then?

  4. LISTEN – Eddie Murphy did some off richard prior jokes, MOST other comedians did jokes that Eddie Murphy did. it is not like these comedians based their entire success on one joke. we cannot disregard any entertainer .

  5. So they both observed the same thing and made a joke about it, thats stealing???? And it was not 'exactly' the same it was similar. Does every time someone makes the joke that cops beat up black people in the US make him a thief?

  6. Weren't Dave Chappelle and Trevor Noah hanging out this weekend, I swear I saw an article called "Trevor Noah and Dave Chappelle not beefing despite joke theft saga" and it has an instagram picture of them going to lunch or breakfast or something chilling like homies. Perhaps Chappelle just let him use the joke? I heard that happens a lot.

  7. American(Whites) loves owning things(Slaves) ,it is worse now that even the Slaves (Blacks in American)claims to own a joke…..who came up with the original joke .who invented a joke. this shows how stupid and uneducated Slaves are ……to me ..a Joke originates from the street . people laughing in the parks, people crying in funerals. who ever claims to have come up with a joke better tell us where he or she heard it before telling us because that might be my Joke . Slaves will always be slaves …..Trevor remember that you are not a African American (slaves), you are a proud south African (better black man)

  8. It seems like the comedians that had the most success in terms of rising to the top of TV celebrity quickly (Dane Cook, Carlos Mencia, etc.) have had a history of stealing other comics' material. This may just be another example of the same.

  9. Big deal he told a joke that was about the same as one told almost 20 years ago, im sure if you looked hard enough most comedians have told the same sort of jokes

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