Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi is coming to the defense of Jon Stewart’s replacement, Trevor Noah, after alleged anti-Semitic tweets were dredged up.
The offensive tweets were mostly about Jews and women stemming back to 2009. The show defended their choice, saying in a statement that Noah simply “pushes boundaries” as a comedian.
Mandvi told TheWrap while at a LinkedIn event on Tuesday that the controversy surrounding Noah is “more a question about Twitter,” adding, “I think it’s much ado about nothing, first of all. He was trying to be funny.”
Noah himself has defended himself since the tweets were made public, saying “To reduce my views to a handful of jokes that didn’t land is not a true reflection of my character, nor my evolution as a comedian.”
Madvi continued to say he thinks the “millennials understand this more than the people who are sort of upset about this.”
“Which is this sense of, what is Twitter in our culture? Is Twitter just a constant sort of…. Is it just disposable?” he continued. “There’s gonna be a presidential candidate 25 years from now, who’s gonna be running for president. Are we going to go back and look at his Twitter feed from when he was 14 years old? Because he’s gonna have a lot of really stupid things in there.”
The Daily Show only announced Stewart’s replacement on Monday.
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