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  • - The NAACP Image Awards were like

  • super amazing this weekend.

  • Some of the most fun I've ever had.

  • This was honestly, maybe one of my favorite moments in life,

  • that I will, I will cherish until I die.

  • So, at the end of the awards,

  • so Jay-Z was the recipient of the President's Award

  • for all the work that he's done

  • with criminal justice reform.

  • Right, he's done an amazing job fighting

  • to reform mass incarceration in America.

  • And Beyonce is up for the final award of the night,

  • which is Entertainer of the Year,

  • so she might go up and then receive her award,

  • and so like there's gonna be a whole thing,

  • like when she goes, is she gonna leave?

  • Is Jay-Z gonna stay?

  • So she wins, right she's Beyonce, she wins.

  • So she goes up, and she receives her award,

  • and then she leaves backstage,

  • but Jay-Z's sitting in the front row,

  • and his security, I guess,

  • didn't realize that the show was gonna end

  • as abruptly as it did, right.

  • And so like his bodyguards are standing

  • at the edge of the theater where we're at,

  • and we're in the middle of the theater.

  • The Anthony Anderson comes out and he's like,

  • "All right, good night everybody,

  • "that's the show, good bye," and that was it.

  • So everyone just stands up, and everyone was like,

  • they just bum rush the stage,

  • and then everybody just rushes to Jay-Z 'cause they're like,

  • "It's Jay-Z!" (audience laughs)

  • Everybody rushes towards him.

  • Now, I'm trying to get out because if you've ever left any,

  • you know when you leave an event,

  • there's gonna be chaos, there's gonna be,

  • doesn't matter, celebrity or not, traffic is traffic.

  • All right?

  • So I'm like, I wanna leave.

  • So I see Jay-Z and now Jay-Z is getting mobbed

  • and so like, he wants to push his way out

  • and the bodyguard wants to push their way

  • but like you're jammed cause everyone's leaving that way.

  • And Jay-Z can't push the people cause he's Jay-Z.

  • Right, you can't push people

  • when you have a billion dollars.

  • Everything is a lawsuit waiting to happen, you can't.

  • So he just has to keep his arms by his side.

  • So I run up to him and then I'm like, "Jay!"

  • And he turns and his eyes light,

  • he's like, "Oh, Trevor, what's up?"

  • And I was like, oh, he remembers me, thank god.

  • (audience laughs)

  • 'Cause it's not like we're friends, I just know him.

  • So I'm like, "Oh, yes, it's me."

  • And I was like, "Are you okay?", he's like, "My bodyguard",

  • and then I was like, all right, "Just walk."

  • And he's like, "What?", I'm like, "Just walk."

  • And I don't even know why, I grabbed the back of his jacket

  • and I push him through the crowd

  • and I put my head down behind him.

  • And people are trying to come and I just started going

  • "We gotta move, people, we gotta move, people.

  • "We gotta move, people, yo, Jay, keep it movin',

  • "we gotta keep movin', sorry about it.

  • "no selfies, we gotta keep movin', y'all."

  • And people are like, "Jay-Z, can I get a selfie?"

  • I'm like, "No, move, no selfies, people!

  • "Everybody, we gotta keep movin, sorry, Jay,

  • "we gotta keep movin', Jay, we gotta keep."

  • And I literally push him through the crowd

  • and we like barrel through and then we get to the other side

  • and the bodyguards are there

  • and then they start like clearing the sides

  • and then I'm like clearing the back,

  • people are trying to come from the back and I'm like,

  • "No, we gotta keep movin', no selfies!"

  • And no one sees it's me

  • 'cause why would you think that I'm pushing Jay-Z.

  • So no one is like, "Is that Trevor Noah behind Jay?"

  • No, so I'm just like there behind him,

  • "We gotta move, Jay-Z, we gotta move!

  • "Sorry, ma'am, no selfies, we gotta move, we gotta move,

  • "gotta get him outta here."

  • 'Cause the guys gonna get mobbed so he's pushing

  • and then the security guard, the most amazing thing,

  • they're walking together, and I guess there were two,

  • one was supposed to be ahead of him

  • and one was supposed to be behind him

  • but there's a moment where they look at each other like,

  • wait, if you're here...

  • (audience laughs and applauds)

  • And so then like the one, there's a panic and the one turns

  • and then he sees that I'm like pushing Jay-Z

  • and this guy just, he came over, he was going to break me.

  • (audience laughs)

  • It was like slow motion, he like turned

  • and he comes as I'm like, "Jay-Z, I'm sorry!"

  • And he comes and as he grabs Jay-Z's like,

  • "No man, he's doin' a great job, man, let's go."

  • And the bodyguard goes and then like I just carried on

  • rolling with Jay-Z just like pushing him,

  • walking ahead of him like, "no, no, no, no pictures, no!"

  • And I was just like, I was like Jay-Z's security

  • the whole way through and then we went into a secret exit

  • where they leave out of, like,

  • I feel like they built a basement for them.

  • 'Cause that's not how I came in, we came in on the street.

  • And then I was like, "Where are we?"

  • And we just keep moving, just keep moving

  • and then he jumped in the car and then he turns like,

  • "That was amazing, baby,

  • we gotta do it again sometime, baby, that was amazing."

  • (audience laughs) Then I was like, "Yes!"

  • I'm Jay-Z's security.

  • (audience cheers and applauds) I made it!

  • Oprah has to leave.

  • (audience groans)

  • Yes, she was going anyway, don't be greedy!

  • But, but, but, but, but, I mean,

  • this is like just a moment where we get to hang out,

  • I know you're dying, so we'll do this, two questions,

  • I'll take one from this side of the audience

  • and one from that side,

  • something you've always wanted to ask her,

  • don't ask her what her favorite color is,

  • think for a moment.

  • I'll ask her one question first

  • just so you can think for a little bit,

  • just one from this side, one from that side.

  • - This is the behind the scenes thing you do, right.

  • - Oh, this is Between the Scenes, yeah, we'll just hang out.

  • It's funny, I didn't know you talk to your audience.

  • - Yes. - Yes, this is me,

  • I just hang out with the real people.

  • - Isn't that cool? - I love it,

  • are you kidding me?

  • I wanted to know one thing, you are Oprah Winfrey,

  • you have been very wealthy for a long time,

  • you worked hard to get there, I often wonder

  • how much normalcy there still is in your life?

  • Like, how many normal random things happen to you.

  • Like, when was the last time

  • your phone ran out of battery while you were speaking?

  • Has that ever happened to you?

  • - No. - Okay.

  • (audience laughs)

  • So for instance, have there ever been a moment where

  • you're in the bathroom and then the toilet roll is done, no?

  • - Oh, no.

  • - What is the most?

  • - No, you know why?

  • Because at my house, I don't know

  • if this happens at your house,

  • but at my house when the toilet roll is checked regularly

  • and when it's been checked,

  • like after you're going to the bathroom,

  • somebody will come in and it's folded

  • into a little triangle. - They fold a little triangle?

  • - Yes. - Like you live in a hotel?

  • - It's like folding into a triangle every time.

  • - Okay, okay, we'll take one from each side.

  • - I will tell you though, some things very normal

  • that you wouldn't think. - Okay, let's go.

  • - I travel with my own bread and I bring my own avocados.

  • - Are you serious? - Yes I do.

  • So I have an avocado orchard so I think it's--

  • - Oh, the story got not normal, Oprah!

  • You just said, "I'm gonna tell you something normal",

  • then you said, "I have my own avocado orchard."

  • (audience laughs)

  • - But, so I think it's ridiculous to pay for avocados.

  • - Which is why you bought your own orchard?

  • Are you kidding me?

  • That is not a normal story.

  • I made my own avocados because they're too expensive.

  • (audience laughs)

  • This Mueller Report thing

  • is one of the most entertaining scandals

  • that's happening right now

  • and I'll tell you why, for me personally.

  • Because I can understand

  • where Trump and his supporters are coming from.

  • Trump and his people are saying, "If there was no collusion

  • "how can there be obstruction of justice?", right,

  • but what they don't seem to understand is

  • America does make provisions for that in the law,

  • you can obstruct justice for a crime

  • that was never committed,

  • which is a very weird thing in my opinion, I won't lie,

  • I do think it's weird.

  • 'Cause Trump is like, "I never did the thing."

  • Then it's like, yes, but you still

  • might've obstructed justice.

  • He's like, "How can I obstruct justice

  • "for a thing that never happened?"

  • They're like, "You still obstructed justice,

  • "that's how it works."

  • Like, basically it's like you lied about eating the cookies,

  • wait, let me think, 'cause it's such a weird thing.

  • (audience laughs)

  • You know what it's like, you know what it's like?

  • It's like your mother accuses you of eating the cookies

  • but then you block her from going to the kitchen

  • to prove that the cookies have been eaten.

  • And then even if there were no cookies eaten

  • she's gonna beat your ass for blocking her.

  • (audience laughs and applauds)

  • That's essentially what it is.

  • Your mother's like, "I don't care."

  • You're like, "But there were no cookies!"

  • She's like, "I don't care, whey were you blocking me?"

  • You're like, "'Cause I didn't eat the cookies!"

  • She's like, "I don't care, you blocked me,

  • "you stood in my way, young man."

  • And that's what's happening to Trump.

  • And the reason I'm so entertained by it

  • is because I feel like 2019 is the year

  • when powerful white people

  • are learning about the justice system

  • in a way that black people in America

  • have known about for a very long time.

  • (audience laughs)

  • No, 'cause everyone, 'cause like you look at the parents

  • involved in like the college admission scandal

  • and they're like, 40 years in jail, this is ridiculous!

  • And black people are like, uh-huh.

  • (audience laughs)

  • Tell us how excessive

  • your criminal justice system is, mm-hmm.

  • And then Trump is like, "How can I go to jail

  • "for blocking an investigation

  • "to something that never happened?"

  • And black people are like, "oh yeah,

  • "you mean like getting arrested for resisting arrest?"

  • Which by the way, is another thing

  • that can happen to you in America,

  • you can literally get arrested for resisting arrest.

  • That happened, there was a young black man in Florida,

  • this went viral awhile ago,

  • he was arrested and they were like, why did you arrest him?

  • And they're like, he's arrested for resisting arrest.

  • And they said, okay, but what was the underlying crime?

  • And they're like, no, there is no charge other than that.

  • So it's like, wait, so you arrested him for resisting arrest

  • but what was he being arrested for.

  • They're like, for resisting arrest.

  • Yes, but what was the first arrest for?

  • Like, that doesn't matter.

  • We said, you're under arrest and he said, for what,

  • and we were like, stop resisting, and then we arrested him.

  • And that's like literally, black people in America are like,

  • oh, we've been saying this justice system is crazy as shit

  • and now Trump is like, "So crazy.

  • (audience laughs)

  • "So wild, who would have thought?"

  • See, if he had black friends they would have told him.

  • (audience laughs)

  • How do I do the accent?

  • I'll be honest with you,

  • I never thought I was good at it or anything

  • but I think it's 'cause I grew like that,

  • I have a mixed family.

  • Like everyone in my family has a different accent, you know.

  • So my dad, my dad's family, my mom, my mom's family,

  • everyone has like a hybrid

  • 'cause everyone moved around a lot.

  • So whenever you go to a different house

  • it's just easier to speak to them in their accent

  • than to try-- (audience laughs)

  • No, 'cause it was weird as well

  • 'cause I went to a private school,

  • like myself and my cousins, we were all likely to go to,

  • like at the time they called them

  • Model C schools in South Africa.

  • So it was like the first generation

  • of black and white kids at the same schools.

  • So we had different accents to our parents and then,

  • like your parents were happy to send you there,

  • that was the funny thing,

  • 'cause like your parents would be like,

  • "You must go to that school

  • "and you must learn to speak good English."

  • And then you'd go to the school and you'd learn the English

  • and then you'd come home and then like your parents,

  • you'd be sitting with them watching TV or something

  • and then like your dad would be like,

  • "Put volume, put volume."

  • And then you'd be like, "Do you mean, increase the volume?"

  • Be like, "Hey. (audience laughs)

  • "I'll increase or decrease your life, don't act smart here!

  • "Put volume!"

  • What is my favorite accent to do?

  • It depends on the day, I'm not gonna lie,

  • it depends on the day.

  • Sometimes I'll choose an accent for the day

  • if I'm on vacation.

  • Genuinely, I'll just walk around

  • and I'll like just be on vacation,

  • or some days like I'll just be like,

  • oh, I'm Australian for the day,

  • and I'll just walk around and I'll just be Australian.

  • Do you know, the great thing about Australian accent

  • is that you always sound happy.

  • (audience laughs)

  • Like, it doesn't matter what it is but it always goes up

  • and it's like really exciting, you know?

  • (audience laughs) It's just got that thing.

  • Like, even if an Australian gave you bad news

  • it always sounds good.

  • It's like, hey, mate, you're mum's dead.

  • (audience laughs)

  • So for those who don't know,

  • there's a story of an American woman

  • who was on a safari in Uganda and she was kidnapped,

  • right, her and her guide were kidnapped.

  • And then there was a ransom for $500,000 I believe.

  • And if I understand your question what you're saying is,

  • why does it seem like the news here

  • is only talking about the American woman who was kidnapped

  • and not so much about the guide.

  • And I'll be honest with you, that's just storytelling.

  • You tell a story from the point

  • that people will most connect with the story.

  • So if you say to an American audience a Ugandan man

  • was kidnapped in Uganda and is still in Uganda.

  • You're like, and the story is?

  • No, I can see how people just,

  • it's hard to get people to care about.

  • But when you go, an American woman was kidnapped

  • people are like, (gasps) I'm American!

  • (audience laughs)

  • That could be me.

  • (audience laughs)

  • 'Cause that's, I don't know if you've noticed,

  • that's something that people love doing.

  • Whenever there's a tragedy

  • people always like to make it seem

  • like that could have been. (gasps)

  • People are like, it literally goes like,

  • when there was a plane, one of the planes that crashed

  • and someone was like, I was thinking of flying to Ethiopia.

  • (audience laughs)

  • I'm like, yeah but that doesn't mean you were any closer to.

  • Remember when we were planning that trip to Ethiopia?

  • (audience laughs) That could've been me!

  • I tried to start learning German,

  • 'cause my dad is Swiss German, right.

  • And so I was like, I wanna learn his language

  • 'cause I never learned it growing up.

  • And then someone was like, why don't you learn Swiss?

  • And then I heard Swiss and I was like, no.

  • (audience laughs)

  • I would rather learn German, and so I learned German,

  • 'cause I thought it would bring us closer together, right.

  • 'Cause I lost contact with my dad for like 10 years

  • so then when I met him again I was like,

  • I wanna learn German and impress him or whatever.

  • And I met him and then I started speaking to him in German

  • and he was like, "What are you doing?"

  • (audience laughs)

  • I was like, "I'm speaking German."

  • He was like, "No, better you speak English, no, no, no."

  • He's like, "It's better

  • "if you don't speak German at all, it's fine."

  • But then now I can speak a bit of German

  • so I decided to go to Germany and stuff

  • and practice it there, you know, I had a lot of fun.

  • Until I found out that the way I spoke German

  • sounded a little bit like Hitler.

  • Yeah, which no one told me on this side of the world

  • 'cause we don't know how he really spoke or anything

  • but I would be in Germany

  • and apparently the way I would hit certain inflections

  • would freak people out.

  • (audience laughs)

  • And it's like, think of it like Barrack Obama's voice,

  • like if someone learned English in America

  • and they got here and they were like,

  • "I just wanna have a", you'd be like,

  • "Hey, you're doing the Barrack Obama thing.

  • And they'd be like, "What are you talkin' about?"

  • (audience laughs) You know what I mean?

  • So I would do that, like I'd go to places

  • and then I would like order food

  • and like someone would be there

  • and be like, (speaking in foreign language).

  • And then I would be like, (speaking in foreign language).

  • (audience laughs)

  • And the people would look at me

  • and then when we left my friend was like,

  • I was like, did I say it weird, like wrong words?

  • She's like, "No, you sound little bit like Hitler, yeah."

  • (audience laughs)

  • And she was like, "and the people

  • "are really frightened about that, you know."

  • And I was like, "So I spoiled their day?"

  • And she was like, "Yeah, you did, you know."

  • And I was like, "well that brings me

  • "a lot of (speaking in foreign language)."

  • (audience laughs)

  • You guys have any questions before we move on,

  • anything you wanna chat about?

  • No, we good, yes sir?

  • - [Audience Member] Do you think that reparations

  • should just go to one group or should it target people

  • in the same kind of like socio-econimic group?

  • Because--

  • - That's an interesting question, what do you mean by that?

  • - [Audience Member] Well, there are white people

  • that have been disenfranchised recently.

  • - Recently is the key, recently is the key.

  • - Well, the country is deindustrialized, right?

  • So like a lot of people in manufacturing jobs and stuff,

  • their areas were affected--

  • - Right, so to your question,

  • I think you have to understand

  • what the word reparations means first.

  • So reparations, you are repairing something

  • that you have broken, you are paying for something

  • that are supposed to pay for.

  • I'm not saying that there aren't people

  • living in America today who are suffering

  • and are going through pain and strife

  • because of what's happening

  • when it comes to machines taking jobs,

  • factories becoming industrialized, et cetera,

  • but reparations is a specific conversation

  • about a specific time in America

  • and that is black people were slaves, you know what I mean.

  • I've even heard people say, like, oh,

  • but there were some of the Irish who were indentured, yeah.

  • Slavery, look at the numbers, look at the time,

  • look at the level of work.

  • You could not work toward your freedom,

  • for most black people in America this was a time

  • when you were, that was it, you lived and died as a slave

  • and so that's what reparations is about.

  • And so I hear what you're saying,

  • but I think that's a completely separate conversation

  • that needs to be had about the now.

  • Because if you are not careful

  • what you then do is you combine everybody's suffering

  • into the same ball and you make it seem like

  • all in justices have the same weighting and they don't,

  • just like crimes, you know,

  • theft isn't the same as murder,

  • we don't try them the same way.

  • And as much as there is a white person

  • who's suffering today,

  • I feel for anybody who's suffering

  • 'cause I know what it's like to be poor,

  • I know what it's like to suffer.

  • I didn't come from a wealthy family,

  • we struggled when I was growing up but I also understand

  • that there are levels of that suffering, you know.

  • And so sometimes white people,

  • it does block a white person 'cause you go, white privilege,

  • and a person goes, I'm poor and I'm white,

  • where's the privilege?

  • You know, white people are like,

  • I wish I could activate my white privilege,

  • I wish I could do it right now, white privilege!

  • Gimme something! (audience laughs)

  • I get that, I get that, trust me, I get it.

  • It is hard to accept that you have benefits

  • because of the color of your skin

  • if you cannot see the benefits that you have.

  • But the thing I try to explain to a person is,

  • think of it more like golf,

  • don't think of it as privilege then,

  • think of it like a handicap, all right.

  • In golf they acknowledge that you are in a position

  • where you need to so many advantages

  • to be competitive in the game, right,

  • so what they say is, you have a handicap of 15

  • so that means like you're gonna be hitting from this tee

  • and you get more chances to get the ball in

  • because we understand that the position you're in.

  • And if you're a black person in America

  • from slavery, from day one, the number of injustices

  • that have held black people back in America

  • amount to an insurmountable,

  • like you look at black people's freedom,

  • you look at black people's land, just land alone,

  • the amount of wealth you can acquire over time

  • if you own land is exponential because you have the land,

  • you have the fact that you can borrow based on the land,

  • you have the fact that you can use the money

  • that you have borrowed to grow more wealth,

  • you can use it to grow your family's wealth,

  • just taking that away from black people alone

  • is crippling them.

  • And so you combine that with slavery

  • and then you look at Jim Crow laws,

  • you didn't let black people in America

  • live in the areas that they wanted to live in,

  • they couldn't get loans from the banks

  • that they wanted to get loans from,

  • and then on top of that when they started getting the loans

  • from American banks American banks were found

  • to be giving them higher interest rates

  • when in fact they were the same risk

  • as many of the other races that they were giving loans to.

  • So when you combine all of those things

  • I think it's safe to say that black Americans

  • have a conversation that they need to be having

  • with the United States.

  • Doesn't involve me, doesn't involve white people,

  • it's like, yo, American government, meet the black people.

  • That's it. (audience cheers and applauds)

  • Have that conversation.

  • ("Dog on Fire")

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