"For more than two and a half hours, Noah dis­cuss­es with host Steven Bartlett (who, like Noah, also hap­pens to be African-born with mixed parent­age) his rea­sons for quit­ting that polit­i­cal-news-com­e­dy TV insti­tu­tion, his strug­gles with depres­sion, and the time his step­fa­ther shot his moth­er in the head. She lived, owing to the mirac­u­lous­ly unlike­ly tra­jec­to­ry of the bul­let, but that did­n't stop the expe­ri­ence from becom­ing what Noah describes as the worst of his life."
""What happens is, you break a plate, or you break a vase or something," and "they put it back together, these artisans who do it. But they don't just glue it back together, they glue it back together and they sort of adorn it with a golden binding. And what you get is an object that is somehow more beautiful than before it was broken.""
Trevor Noah left The Daily Show a little over three years ago and has cultivated a broader pop-cultural presence through appearances like on Diary of a CEO. He spent over two and a half hours with Steven Bartlett covering his reasons for leaving the political-news-comedy program, long-term struggles with depression, and a childhood incident in which his stepfather shot his mother in the head; she survived because of an unlikely bullet trajectory. Noah invokes kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with gold, as a metaphor for wearing scars and finding renewed beauty in repair.
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