User Reviews

I just started watching some of these episodes. Have been though Chris Rock, Jim Carrey and now Trevor Noah.

I am not a Jerry Sienfeld fan. Never have been. Never will be. He always came across as a comedian with not enough humility and thats is clearly evident even in this episode. Not to knock him down. Many find him relatable and funny. I do not. I think the show wouldve been better with a more relatable and organic host.

Trevor Noah has an interesting personality so he comes across more genuine even in this episode. I was today years old about many of the apartheid facts he casually dropped. Kudos to the way these episodes were shot and edited. I enjoyed how humble he sounded as well.

In "Comedians in Cars getting Coffee," Jerry Seinfeld thoughtfully picks cars matching the personality, trajectory, or achievements of his guest. Jerry picks one of the coolest and most interesting cars yet for Trevor Noah, and takes him to a modern, hip neighborhood with the declared intention to encourage him at the start of his career.

Trevor takes this nice gesture and spends the duration of their meeting chastising and lecturing Jerry, even tastelessly zinging him as a "colonizer." Trevor tells another non-joke implying Jerry is racist, and then has the audacity to tell Jerry that he was a bigger international star at a younger age than Jerry ever was.

Trevor comes off as a huge jerk at every possible turn, and seems to miss the entire point of discussing the craft with a senior figure in the art. Crass, disrespectful, and vain. Jerry handled it with grace, even when Trevor spent the final minutes of their time arguing pointlessly about the timing of elections and taking shots at his own predecessor, Jon Stewart. Noah makes it abundantly clear that he is either ignorant or indifferent to his behavior. Jerry Seinfeld handled this entire mess with dignity and patience.

One of the strangest and most awkward episodes of this show I have seen yet.