Responding to the comedy controversy sparked by past Trevor Noah jokes about Jews and women, “Daily Show” correspondent Aasif Mandvi poured cold water on the whole thing.
“I think its more a question about Twitter,” the “Daily Show” correspondent said at a LinkedIn event Tuesday. I think it’s much ado about nothing, first of all. The guy made some sort of, you know, off-color, irresponsible tweets, but he was trying to be funny.”
Some of the jokes Mandvi thinks were off-color and irresponsible included slights against Israel, poking fun at overweight women and sexual jokes about “Jewish chicks.”
But Mandvi thinks the jokes land better with certain age groups and the controversy is more about Twitter than Noah:
“I think the millennials understand this more than the people who are sort of upset about this.