'Daily Show' Writer Josh Johnson Talks About Everything He Has Learned Working With Trevor Noah

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00:00 Trevor Noah's famously been doing televised stand up for a minute.

00:05 I was wondering if there were any lessons that you learned touring with

00:10 and spending time with that dude that you've taken with you.

00:14 Yeah, there's almost too many to count, to be honest.

00:17 He's very gracious with the knowledge that he's willing to impart and everything.

00:25 There are some people who are super successful and don't want to share

00:28 their "secrets" or how they got.

00:32 He's always been very open and been a real mentor to me and everything,

00:40 which I can't even describe how much I appreciate that,

00:44 when he didn't have to, didn't need to or anything.

00:47 Watching him and watching his approach to both comedy and stage presence,

00:54 and getting to tour with him was like a real masterclass in how you handle

01:01 all aspects of how he's developed his career.

01:04 And then also what goes into a special and the thought process that you should

01:10 be working on as you build out a special and what's meant for an overall piece

01:18 to share with people once every year or two years and what's meant for touring

01:24 and making the room feel part of your act and part of an experience with them.

01:30 So all these little things started to come together for me that really shaped

01:35 how I felt about both my comedy and where I was with my writing and my performance,

01:41 and then what I wanted to do with the special.

01:45 And that's a lot of what I'm talking about even for the future,

01:48 is that there's like a new wave coming and I'm excited to be a part of it.

01:55 But I think that a lot of people are going to be doing beautiful things

01:59 with stand-up soon that some of it won't even break the traditional mold of like,

02:05 here I'm staying on stage and the camera's pointing at me for an hour.

02:08 But there's going to be people who make things where when you get done,

02:12 you're like, wow, that's very different.

02:16 You know?

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