--- title: Daily Show Host Trevor Noah Shares Mom's Advice description: She compared the experience to pregnancy canonical: https://time.com/4092564/trevor-noah-daily-show-mom-advice/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-29T14:32:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:46:51.415Z og:title: 'Daily Show' Host Trevor Noah Got Great Advice From His Mom og:description: She compared the experience to pregnancy og:url: https://time.com/4092564/trevor-noah-daily-show-mom-advice/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Daily Show' Host Trevor Noah Got Great Advice From His Mom twitter:description: She compared the experience to pregnancy twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's the Great Advice Trevor Noah's Mom Gave Him Before Starting _The Daily Show_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 29, 2015 2:32 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 29, 2015 2:32 PM UTC Trevor Noah visited _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ Wednesday night to celebrate one month of hosting _The Daily Show._ He told Kimmel that it’s been “insane” and a “wonderful, wonderful experience” — and then he shared the great advice his mom gave him that has kept him going. “My mom said everything I described to her was the equivalent of having a child,” Noah said. “It’s like for months and months I was pregnant and I knew that I was gonna, one day, have to give birth to this thing, and then people would judge me on how I raise it and how I treat it. But in the end, I would be proud of it, and some days I would hate it with all my heart — but at the end of the day it would be what I created and so I’d have to live with it.” Noah first told Kimmel this story at the Emmys, and Kimmel’s response was, “This guy’s mother is unbelievable. My mother never tells me anything like that. I was actually angry at my mother when I walked away.” _Read next:_ [_Watch Trevor Noah Shut Down_](http://time.com/4081192/trevor-noah-star-wars/)[ Star Wars _Boycotters_](http://time.com/4081192/trevor-noah-star-wars/) ### Late Night Before Letterman  The Tonight Show starring Steve Allen: (l-r center) Jayne Meadows, Steve Allen (2nd left) Skitch Henderson (4th row right) Patricia Marshall (5th row l-r) Pat Kirby, Eydie Gorme (top row l-r) Andy Williams and Steve Lawrence, in 1955 NBC/NBCU Photo Bank—Getty Images  The Tonight Show starring Steve Allen, on July 1, 1956: Andy Griffith, Steve Allen, and Elvis Presley (l-r) perform a parody of a Country-Western television show NBC/NBCU Photo Bank—Getty Images  'The Steve Allen Show' circa 1957. Archive Photos—Getty Images  The Tonight Show with Jack Parr: Season 1's (l-r) Tedi Thurman, host Jack Paar, Fran Warren, Johnny Johnson, Mary Mayo, Jose Melis NBC/NBCU Photo Bank—Getty Images  The Tonight Show with Jack Parr: John F. 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