SA Comedy Series
Saturday, March 04, 2017, 09:00pm
Contact (716) 645-2950

This year's comedy series will feature Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show".

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On Saturday March 4th, 2017, SA will bring Trevor Noah to the Alumni Arena in a show exclusively for UB Undergraduates. Tickets will be available on 2/22/17 at 10am at  Tickets.sa.buffalo.edu.

Trevor (@TrevorNoah) has hosted numerous television shows in his native country, including South Africa’s music, television and film awards, the South African Comedy Festival and two seasons of his own late night talk show. He had his U.S. television debut on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and has also appeared on “Late Show with David Letterman,” becoming the first South African stand-up comedian to appear on either late night show. He’s slated to do the Jimmy Kimmel show in January. His Showtime comedy special, “Trevor Noah: African American” premiered in 2013 and he’s slated to take over for John Stewart on The Daily Show this fall.

Trevor presented his one man show “The Racist” at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe in a sold out run that became the buzz of audiences and journalists and the same year was the subject of David Paul Meyer’s award-winning documentary film “You Laugh But It’s True”which tells the story of Trevor’s remarkable career in post-apartheid South Africa.He continues to tour all over the world and has performed in front of sold out crowds at the Hammersmith Apollo in London and the Sydney Opera House in Australia, among others. Trevor has been profiled in Rolling Stone, Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal, and by CNN and NPR’s “Talk of the Nation.”He was nominated for “Personality of the Year” at the 2014 MTV Africa Music Awards and is currently featured on the cover of GQ South Africa.

Location Alumni Arena
Doors open @ 8pm