WASHINGTON 鈥� After Trevor Noah was selected Monday to succeed Jon Stewart as the host of 鈥淭he Daily Show,鈥� the South African comic tweeted that he was excited to step into Stewart鈥檚 shoes, saying that 鈥淣o-one can replace Jon Stewart. But together with the amazing team at The Daily Show, we will continue to make this the best damn news show!鈥�
Some of his tweets in the past have been 鈥� well, a little more problematic. reports that some of Noah鈥檚 tweeted jokes and observations have the Internet in a bit of an uproar.
BuzzFeed鈥檚 Tom Gara found a bunch of Noah鈥檚 tweets, mostly from 2011 and 2012, and retweeted them to bring them back to light.
Weird that Trevor Noah didn’t do a quick twitter cleanup before getting the job.
鈥� Tom Gara (@tomgara)
A couple of Noah鈥檚 tweets are below. (草莓传媒 can only put a few of them on this site; for others, you can go to the Business Insider site, but be warned: The language gets a bit rough.)
“Oh yeah the weekend. People are gonna get drunk & think that I’m sexy!” – fat chicks everywhere. 鈥� Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah)
I’m watching Olympic women’s hockey. It’s like lesbian porn. Without the porn. 鈥� Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah)
The guy seems to have a problem with Jews…. What’s that called again?
鈥� efredman (@efredman)
U should cease sexist & anti semitic ‘humor’ about jewish women & Israel.
鈥� Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne)
. seriously not cool with ‘s anti-Semitic “jokes”. Won’t be watching.
鈥� Benoit Bruneau (@benoitbruneau)
focused聽on some of Noah鈥檚 funnier and less-offensive tweets, mostly dating from this year and last:
If PlayStation was smart, they鈥檇 get Brian Williams to be their spokesman- 鈥淧S4. So real, you鈥檒l think you were there鈥� 鈥� Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah)
I wish airport security also ran the lottery because then I’d have a better chance of “randomly” winning. 鈥� Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah)
I’ll miss the Olympics. It’s the one time, when a group of black people can run, with no suspicion. 鈥� Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah)
No word yet on whether there will be any repercussions.
