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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."