Trevor Noah Net Worth 2024

What is Trevor Noah’s net worth and wage?

Trevor Noah is a South African comedian, actor, tv host, and radio DJ who has a net worth of $100 million. After making a reputation for himself on the worldwide stand-up comedy circuit, Trevor Noah made his massive break in 2015 when he was introduced as Jon Stewart’s hand-picked substitute to host Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” In September 2022, after seven years of internet hosting duties, Trevor introduced he was stepping down from The Daily Show.

Daily Show Salary

In his first few years of internet hosting The Daily Show, Trevor’s wage was $5-8 million, a relative pittance in comparison with Jon Stewart who had been incomes $25+ million.

In September 2017 Trevor signed a profitable contract extension with Viacom (proprietor of Comedy Central). This contract reportedly boosted his annual wage to $16 million.

Early Life

Trevor Noah was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on February twentieth, 1984. His father Robert being of Swiss extraction and his Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah being of Xhosa ancestry made life tough for the Noah family below the South African apartheid rule of the time, which had criminalized interracial marriage by the point Trevor was born, and his mom confronted jail time and fines over the course of his childhood (he wrote about his experiences rising up below apartheid in South Africa in his 2016 e-book “Born a Crime”).

Comedy Career

Trevor Noah’s profession in present enterprise started when he was simply an adolescent. At 18, he had a walk-on half on an episode of the favored South African cleaning soap opera “Isidingo” in 2002. Around the identical time, he started internet hosting his personal youth-oriented radio present entitled “Noah’s Ark;” after that, he hosted an academic TV sequence referred to as “Run The Adventure from 2004 to 2006. Then, in 2007 Noah hosted the gossip TV sequence “The Real Goboza” and co-hosted the courting sport present “The Amazing Date” the yr after that. He did not simply work as a TV host at this level in his profession; round this time he additionally appeared as a contestant on the fourth season of the truth TV sequence “Strictly Come Dancing.” He hosted the South Africa Film and Television Awards in 2009, co-hosted the South African Music Awards in 2009 and 2010, and ultimately acquired his personal TV present entitled “Tonight with Trevor Noah.” He then began getting endorsement offers, akin to when he grew to become a spokesperson and client safety agent for South African mobile supplier Cell C in 2010. Throughout his profession he is continued to differentiate himself on the stand-up stage, performing with comedians like Paul Rodriguez, Gabriel Iglesias, and Russell Peters.

In 2012, his comedy profession reached a brand new milestone when Noah was the primary South African stand-up comedian ever to carry out on “The Tonight Show,” happening to carry the identical distinction on “The Late Show with David Letterman” the next yr.  He was the topic of the documentary “You Laugh But It’s True” in 2012, after which on the finish of 2014 he made his first look as a contributor for “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” That similar yr, he acquired a nomination for an MTV Africa Music Award for Personality of the Year.

On March 30, 2015, it was introduced that Trevor Noah had been chosen to switch Jon Stewart because the host of “The Daily Show.” Since taking on, he is gained a number of awards for his work on the present and in 2017 was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.

Trevor Noah has additionally discovered work as a TV producer, creating each “The Opposition with Jordan Klepper” and “Klepper” with former fellow “Daily Show” correspondent Jordan Klepper on Comedy Central, and govt produced yet one more present from one other “Daily Show” correspondent Roy Wood, Jr. referred to as “Jefferson County: Probation.” As befitting his place as a significant late-night discuss present host, he is additionally begun racking up cameo appearances on movie and TV, making an look on the sequence “Nashville: in 2017, in addition to in “Black Panther” and “American Vandal” the next yr. Noah is ready to govt produce a U.S. model of the British late-night TV sequence “Mock the Week” for Amazon Freevee after stepping down from “The Daily Show.”

Books

Noah is the creator of the aforementioned memoir “Born a Crime,” which is slated to be produced as a characteristic movie starring Lupita Nyong’o. In 2018, Noah, together with the writing employees of “The Daily Show,” launched “The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library,” a e-book primarily based on a South by Southwest set up that in flip was primarily based on President Donald Trump’s Twitter account.

Philanthropy

In 2018, Trevor Noah established The Trevor Noah Foundation in his native Johannesburg. According to the muse’s official website, its major aim is to offer youth in South Africa with “the instruments, abilities, and pathways to alternative required to enhance their lives and catalyze change of their communities.”

Personal Life

Trevor Noah might be the one main American discuss present host who can converse a complete of eight languages: English, Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho, Tswana, Tsonga, Afrikaans, and German. He initially made the journey from South Africa to America below extraordinarily disagreeable circumstances: his mom was shot within the head by her ex-husband Ngisaveni Abel Shingange, who Noah says threatened him after he referred to as him on the telephone to confront him about what he’d carried out. In 2011 Shingange was convicted of tried homicide for the capturing since Noah’s mom miraculously survived. He has stated that he hoped the incident would direct the general public’s consideration to the problem of home violence – and the regulation enforcement response (or lack thereof) to it – in South Africa: “For years my mom reached out to police for assist with home abuse, and nothing was ever carried out. This is the norm in South Africa. Dockets went lacking and instances by no means went to courtroom.”

Noah addressed the Princeton University Class of 2021 nearly in May 2021 because the Class Day speaker and was inducted as an honorary member.

Real Estate

In January of 2019, Trevor Noah made headlines for his purchase of a mansion in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles. Noah paid a reported $20 million for the mansion, which spreads throughout 10,044 sq. feet and two tales, with 5 bedrooms and eight bogs. The mansion has an expansive major bed room suite that measures in at 2,200 sq. feet all by itself, and the property sports activities an infinity-edge swimming pool, a non-public residence movie show, and a 500-gallon saltwater aquarium. For any additional particular friends that may come by to see Noah in Bel-Air, there’s an “ultra-private VIP suite” that has, amongst different issues, its personal non-public entrance.

Not fairly two years after paying $20.5 million for the above residence, in September 2020 Trevor offloaded it for $21.5 million.

In 2017, Trevor paid $10.1 million for a duplex in Manhattan. This was his main residence whereas he was taping The Daily Show. In October 2022 Trevor listed this property on the market for $12.95 million. The 3,600 sq. foot house encompasses a non-public terrace with a plunge pool and a screening room.

In January 2021, Trevor paid $27.5 million for a house in Bel-Air. In October 2021, simply 10 months later, he listed this residence on the market for $30 million. In March of 2022 Trevor bought the house to Bird scooter founder Travis Vanderzanden. Here’s a video tour of this home:

Trevor additionally reportedly owns a number of properties in his native South Africa, together with an house in Cape Town and a home within the suburbs of Johannesburg.