I don't know about you but I've always thought that Trevor Noah's done loads of one-man shows. He's so confident and Pro when he's jokin' that it feels as if he's been headlining solo stand-up for years already.

The facts: he hasn't. Last month he launched his first ever one-man shindig at Gold Reef City, Jozi. The show's called 'The Daywalker', it ran for two live performances, it was filmed for DVD and Nu Metro has picked it up for the cinema circuit.

The movie premiered at Nu Metro cinemas on 5 November as part of their Comedy Podium series — a series of flicks that spotlights top South African comedians.

It's being screened countrywide, every Thursday throughout November. To find out more and to have a chuckle I chatted to Trev' (trying to sound schmancy "in-the-know").

Tashi: The Daywalker: from stage to the Big Screen — how did it happen?
Trevor: Wow, I just, I don't know actually — it was just something, like a lot of things in my life, that just happened. One minute I wasn't doing it and then I was. One minute I wasn't doing the show, then I was and the next thing I decided to shoot it.

I live my life one step at a time so that there's no over-thinking and so on. I got approached to broadcast it and license it and stuff so that's how it worked out.

Have you seen it as a movie yet?
I don't think I'll ever see it.

Oh? I was gonna ask what it's like seeing yourself so BIG?
I don't watch myself — you know why, I get too self-conscious and then I won't give my best performance the next time. I'll keep thinking "I can't believe I made a face like that," or "I can't believe I looked that on stage and did that," — I'd just be too self-conscious.

So you've never watched yourself on TV either?
Trevor: No I don't.

Have you ever watched anything?
Maybe little bits — like sometimes I've caught myself in little bits on TV and I change the channel very quickly.

Is it a pressure being a comedian? Do your friends and family always ask you to tell jokes?
Oh no, friends and family know better than to do that. They know that after that question there will be swift slaps delivered — equally amongst all. The public does ask for that quite a lot — I tell them I'm 'off duty'. Sometimes you indulge people and sometimes you slide out of it.

How many girlfriends have you snagged by getting them to laugh?
All of them, I hope.

Have there been many?
No not really, I don't think.

On page two: Trevor reveals how he got involved in stand-up comedy.


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