A Twitter storm has started after the EFF political party congratulated the South African comedian Trevor Noah with his creative Emmy win, after some furious fans urged him to stop making fun of black people and to focus his jokes on white people only.
A lot of Trevor Noah fans however quickly rallied to his defense.
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central (DStv 122) won his first Emmy at the Emmy awards' Creative Arts ceremony in Los Angeles for his YouTube comedy special, The Daily Show: Between the Scenes in the category for Best Short Form Variety Series.
Trevor Noah is in Washington where he was performing and couldn't accept the Emmy, and is back in America after his recent visit to South Africa where he did a special stand-up performance in Johannesburg and Durban entitled, There's a Gupta on My Stoep.
In There's a Gupta on My Stoep as well as in a special M-Net VIP-invite only once-off show, Getting to Noah You at the Johannesburg Theatre for M-Net's important stakeholders, Trevor Noah went out of his way to incorporate characters, colours, accents and languages from every single background - black, coloured, white English and white Afrikaans, male, female, Indian, Australian - and even Atul Gupta calling Jacob Zuma.
After his Emmy win, one of the congratulatory messages to Trevor Noah was from the EFF political party who said the "EFF congratulates Trevor Noah for winning his first Emmy for The Daily Show. Continue to make us proud.".
EFF congratulates @Trevornoah for winning his first Emmy for The Daily Show: continue to make us proud 👏🏿 pic.twitter.com/IkkIEzsbTB— EFF (@EFFSouthAfrica) September 11, 2017
Then @ralekolwana tweeted: "Trevor and Schuster u disrespecting us please make jokes about white people not blacks".
Several supporters rallied to Trevor Noah's defense like @Wolvenheart saying "Trevor has made jokes about every race but there has always been an underlying truth. He uses comedy to punctuate it."
"I see you don't watch The Daily Show," said Mtshobisi Mtshali. "Plus black people aren't immune from ridicule by virtue of the comedian being black".
Trevor Noah will be back to headline a new TV comedy stand-up series, Trevor Noah Presents... that will be broadcast in 2018 on M-Net (DStv 101) in which he shines the spotlight on new upcoming comedic talent from across a broad spectrum across the whole of South Africa.
