Trevor Noah: Afraid of the Dark

00:22:41,902 --> 00:22:44,154 They have the rolling highlands of Scotland. 422 00:22:44,238 --> 00:22:46,323 They've got these castles, beautiful, 423 00:22:46,407 --> 00:22:48,701 perfectly preserved, hundreds of years old. 424 00:22:48,784 --> 00:22:52,204 In the streets, there's the men playing the bagpipes, wearing the kilts. 425 00:22:53,038 --> 00:22:54,331 No black people. 426 00:22:55,291 --> 00:22:59,670 But not in a bad way. Not in a bad way. Just in a matter-of-fact way, you know? 427 00:23:00,254 --> 00:23:01,589 When I say there's no black people in Scotland, 428 00:23:01,672 --> 00:23:03,382 I just mean there's no black people. 429 00:23:03,465 --> 00:23:04,925 There's a good way and a bad-- 430 00:23:05,009 --> 00:23:07,469 The good way is when you get there, you're like, "There's no black people." 431 00:23:07,553 --> 00:23:11,098 But some places you go, like, "There's no black people." And that's-- 432 00:23:11,181 --> 00:23:12,224 You know what I mean? 433 00:23:12,308 --> 00:23:16,437 That means some shit went down. You can feel it when you get there. 434 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,940 Like Australia, there's no aborigines. 435 00:23:20,024 --> 00:23:22,359 When you get there, you're like, "Hey, Australia! 436 00:23:22,443 --> 00:23:24,361 Wait, where's all the black people?" 437 00:23:24,445 --> 00:23:28,115 They're like, [Australian accent] "Oh, I don't know. They left." 438 00:23:34,246 --> 00:23:35,956 You can feel something went wrong. 439 00:23:37,750 --> 00:23:39,668 Scotland doesn't have that, you know? 440 00:23:39,752 --> 00:23:43,047 Scotland doesn't have black people because they are further north. 441 00:23:43,130 --> 00:23:46,842 Further north, there were no black people. Not many black things further north. 442 00:23:46,925 --> 00:23:49,303 The further north you go, the whiter things become. 443 00:23:50,220 --> 00:23:53,807 There's the people, Christmas, the bears. Everything changes. 444 00:23:58,062 --> 00:24:00,814 If you went to a Scottish person and said, "Excuse me, sir. Are you racist?" 445 00:24:00,898 --> 00:24:02,358 He'd be like, [Scottish accent] "I don't know. 446 00:24:03,525 --> 00:24:05,027 I never tried." 447 00:24:09,281 --> 00:24:12,242 I had so much fun in Scotland. I was in Glasgow for a week. 448 00:24:12,826 --> 00:24:15,329 I was driving around in the back of a car. Every single day, 449 00:24:15,412 --> 00:24:18,916 I would try and spot black people. It was a little game I played by myself. 450 00:24:18,999 --> 00:24:22,252 Every day, I would just be there, like, "Black person, black person... 451 00:24:22,336 --> 00:24:26,006 Ah! No. Statue. Black person, black person... 452 00:24:26,090 --> 00:24:28,842 Ah! No. Reflection. Black person, black person..." 453 00:24:28,926 --> 00:24:31,053 No black people anywhere. None. 454 00:24:33,847 --> 00:24:35,933 That's why I say traveling is important. 455 00:24:36,016 --> 00:24:38,936 I'd never been to a place where there were no black people before. 456 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:42,439 It actually made me realize that there had been an issue 457 00:24:42,523 --> 00:24:44,566 that I'd been grappling with for so long. 458 00:24:45,442 --> 00:24:47,611 And now, finally, I had another answer. 459 00:24:47,695 --> 00:24:48,696 And that issue... 460 00:24:49,279 --> 00:24:50,698 was that of James Bond. 461 00:24:51,907 --> 00:24:54,785 I'm a big fan of 007. License to kill. 462 00:24:54,868 --> 00:24:57,413 I loved it my whole life. Started with Pierce Brosnan. 463 00:24:57,496 --> 00:24:59,707 Then went back and watch Connery's and Lazenby's and everyone, 464 00:24:59,790 --> 00:25:02,918 all the way to Daniel Craig. And I love James Bond. 465 00:25:03,001 --> 00:25:06,797 And when I found out that Daniel Craig no longer wanted to be James Bond, 466 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:08,507 I was heartbroken. 467 00:25:08,590 --> 00:25:10,259 Until I heard... 468 00:25:10,342 --> 00:25:13,470 that, at the top of the list, the potential replacement 469 00:25:14,096 --> 00:25:16,473 was a man by the name Idris Elba. 470 00:25:16,557 --> 00:25:17,975 [cheers and applause] 471 00:25:20,686 --> 00:25:22,563 And I lost my mind. 472 00:25:22,646 --> 00:25:26,233 I lost my-- You can hear the ladies. They're, like, "Yeah," you know? 473 00:25:26,316 --> 00:25:29,528 And that's what James Bond needs: a lady's man and a man's man, 474 00:25:29,611 --> 00:25:32,573 and Idris has that. He's strong. He's charming. 475 00:25:32,656 --> 00:25:35,784 He's got that quiet thing. "Yeah, you know, Idris Elba. Oh, yeah. 476 00:25:35,868 --> 00:25:39,538 Idris Elba, you know?" You could just see him playing the dapper spy. 477 00:25:39,621 --> 00:25:42,624 And as soon as it was announced, everyone was excited, 478 00:25:42,708 --> 00:25:45,461 until the comments section of the Internet came in. 479 00:25:46,545 --> 00:25:48,589 "Idris Elba, James Bond." 480 00:25:48,672 --> 00:25:51,300 And the comments section w