about the Toy Hall of Fame, which is in Rochester.

And we're seeing all the toys that are being inducted

and so everyone in the office starts talking

about their favorite toys growing up, right?

So some people are like "Oh yeah, no

for me it was Shoots and Ladders,

and for me it was the sled,

and for me it was this, it was that."

And then, the people were like,

"What was your favorite, favorite toy growing up?"

And I was like, "Genuinely,

my favorite toy growing up was a brick."

(audience laughs)

All right, which sounds crazy

but, Spinny why do you walk away like I'm a crazy?

(audience laughs)

like you literally walk away

like I'm saying the wildest thing.

No cause we, so what happened was no,

we had, when we were growing up I'd live

at my Gran's house in Soweto,

and then what would happen is,

a lot of kids didn't have toys,

but it wasn't like a sad thing

like "Oh, I don't have toys."

It was like we'd play with whatever we find.

And so the most popular thing little boys would play

with was bricks, and your brick was,

you'd play with it like a toy car.

So you'd walk around the neighborhood searching

for the best brick, all right?

'Cause the game you would play,

we didn't put wheels on it or anything,

like someone asked in the office,

they're like, "Did you put wheels on?"

No, there's no wheels, where were we gonna find wheels?

If we have wheels, we wouldn't have these problems.

(audience laughs) So we just took bricks,

so you would find bricks,

and then the game you'd play is you'd drive around

in the dirt with your brick car,

and then you would smash into the other boys' bricks,

and then if your brick was the last brick standing,

you won the game.

So, like all of us, it was like a mission.

You're like, "Man, I gotta find bricks, I gotta."

You just walk around the whole day, just searching

for bricks, and there's this one brick

that we had called a face brick, all right?

Which is basically like a really beautiful brick

that you can, you know bricks that you don't plaster over?

'Cause you have that as the face of your house,

that's why you would call it the face brick, right?

And so, that was like the dream brick.

It was the most expensive brick, though.

You couldn't, you'd find everyone

with gray bricks and the dark black bricks

and all those, but those bricks break.

You come with a face brick, everyone would see you,

you'd pitch up, you'd be like a pimp rolling up

in a Rolls-Royce Phantom, like genuinely.

I remember one day I found the face brick,

and you know I got the, all the kids were like (car noises).

And I've got the little swag, and they're like,

"Oh Trevor, are you playing, are you playing?"

And then I was like, "Yeah."

and I pulled my brick out from behind my back.

And they're like (gasps) "Face brick, face brick."

And it's like, "Now he has a face brick, face brick."

And it's like, "Let's go."

And then you drive, and then everyone rams in,

and I'll be like, "You guys ram me first, I'll just chill."

And everyone tries to ram your brick,

and because it's a face brick,

it's compact, it doesn't crack,

and everyone's brick crack in half,

people are devastated.

You see kids smash their brick,

and the brick cracks dead in the middle,

and they're like (cries dramatically)

(cries out in foreign language)

It's like a big thing.

And then you'd play, and you'd take the brick,

and it was such a popular thing

that you had to be careful if you lived in the townships

because kids would steal bricks from outside your house

if you were doing renovations,

so if you weren't careful,

you would have all your bricks outside,

'cause you're like, "Oh I'm gonna build a wall."

And then the next day you would come there,

and you'd be like, "Where the fuck are my bricks?"

(audience laughs)

And all the bricks are gone,

and there's just kids driving around, like (car noises).

It's like, "Are those my bricks?"

"I don't know what you're talking about, man.

This is my favorite toy."

It just makes you realize, you can just have fun

with anything, man, it was, that was genuinely my favorite.

Even now when I see bricks, I get happy.

Like I said to friends,

that's the one thing I don't like about living

in New York, you don't see bricks often,

just loose bricks hanging around.

You take that for granted, I walk around, I'm like,

"Man, no bricks, no bricks, no bricks, no bricks."

And if I see a brick, there's a thing in me still

to this day that wants to take the brick,

and I have to stop myself and be like,

"You're the host of 'The Daily Show'.

You can buy all the bricks you want."

And it's like, "Yeah, but take that brick Trevor,

come on, you know you want to."

And I was thinking, imagine if TMZ caught me on camera,

and it's like, "Trevor Noah spotted stealing a brick."

And then I'd be trying to explain it,

"No, it's a car, no it's not a" (laughs)

"Is Trevor Noah oh drugs?"

"No wait, it's so strong."

"What were you doing Trevor?"

"I was gonna build my own wall."

(audience laughs)

That's what South Africa, you guys,

you should let Donald Trump build the wall,

and then just bring all the South African kids overnight.

(audience claps and laughs)

And they'll just like take the.

So in my grandmother's house,

we didn't have a tap in the house.

We had one tap shared amongst four houses,

and that seemed cool compared to my cousins

because in the villages, they had one tap,

which was like a mile away.

So I'd go to my cousins to visit them

for the holidays, and then I would,

my cousin would wake me up at like 5 a.m.,

I'd be like, "Dude, what are you doing?"

He's like, "We gotta go get water."

And I'm like, "What?"

And then you get the wheelbarrow,

and then you go, and it's fun when you're on the way there

'cause you're like, "This is fun."

You've got your wheelbarrow, you're rolling.

And then you fill up, you forget that you have

to fill them up with water.

So these giant, giant, giant drums of water,

and then you bring them back,

and your like, "Fuck."

The whole time, you're just like,

"I don't need water, I don't need water."

And then one day I took,

'cause my cousin was shredded just because of that.

Every single day was just him lifting a barrel.

It was like 400 pounds on a wheelbarrow,

just pushing that every single day.

And then one day I remember, I was like, "I can do this."

And I took it, and I was like, "Oh, oh, oh oh"

And then all the water gone.

(audience gasps) Just like all of it.

And then I was like, "Well, well,

you shouldn't have let me take the wheelbarrow."

I just pulled a Ben Carson,

I was like, "That was your bad."

Did I know my life would turn out like this

since I was a kid?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember when I was like four years old,

and there was like this little kid who pushed me

to the ground, and then I was like,

"Ha, one day I'm gonna be the host of 'The Daily Show'."

No, I get what you're saying,

and I'm joking obviously, I'm being facetious.

No, I had no clue.

Nor did I wish for that, I'll be honest with you.

I was, I still joke with my mom about that 'til this day.

I go, "I did not know where life would take me,

or how life would end up.

All I knew is that I wanted to be able to afford

to buy as much food as I wanted to buy.

Like at any time."

That was the big time in my life.

'Cause when you don't have money in a family,

the food decision is the biggest decision you can make.

So let me put it this way.

We would go out for take-out maybe once a month

if we're lucky,

and I remember the pressure that I was under

'cause you'd get the menu,

and then they'd be like, "Do you want a burger

or do you want pizza or,"

and I was just like (groans) "Don't mess this up,

don't mess this up."

It was such a big decision.

And I remember one day, I said to my mom, I was like,

"One day I'm gonna be rich enough to buy two."

(audience coos)

And then my mom could have been like, "Shut up kid."

But she was like, "Yeah, you will be rich enough, yeah."

And I was like, "And I'll buy dessert."

She's like, "You go buy all the dessert.

All of the dessert."

And so then now, my mom was like,

"Did you buy the dessert, did you buy the dessert?"

And then she point at my tummy,

and she's like, "Look like you bought the dessert."

In Africa, like so my mom,

she would let me watch a sex scene in a movie,

she would be like, "I don't care about that."

But if kids were playing with food,

she'd make me turn the movie off.

So whenever, so whenever there's like,

I used to watch those high school movies,

those American movies, and then you know,

there'd always be a food fight in the cafeteria.

Then my mom would be like, "Turn it off, turn it off."

And then I'd be like, "What you mean?"

She's like, "Why they wasting food?"

Then I was like, "It's a movie."

She's like, "But it's real food, it's real food.

It's real food, how can you waste food like that?"

And then I was, it's like my mom was going,

you know parents will go, "There's children starving."

My mom as like, "We are starving in Africa.

We are starving, why are they wasting food?"

The first time I remember hearing a joke

as a child was actually, I was with my grandfather,

and we were at a protest in the streets in South Africa.

And I don't know what the protest was for,

I'm assuming it was anti-apartheid or whatever.

But I was very young, and I was with my grandfather,

and we're walking, marching through the streets,

and a policeman came by on a horse.

And policemen on horses is like, yo you,

like no one is comfortable, do you know what I mean?

Just generally, as black people, we're never like, "Yay,

yay, he's gonna do the thing."

No, you were terrified of a policeman on a horse.

And this guy was trying to move the crowd along, move,

and he's like, "Move, move, bloody hell, move, move."

And he got to my grandfather,

and then my grandfather turned to him,